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RIP: Deon Unthank, Founder and CEO of AbsolutelyGospel.com
LEBANON, TN - (December 20, 2021) - Deon Unthank, founder and CEO of AbsolutelyGospel.com, peacefully passed into the arms of his Savior on Friday, December 17, 2021, surrounded by his family. Always a Southern Gospel singer and fan first, Deon founded AbsolutelyGospel.com (formerly SoGospelNews.com), with his deceased wife Susan in 1997. The site gained national prominence and became a leading voice in the industry in the early 2000s that has continued to this day. The site's awards program, Absolutely Gospel Music Awards, became it's calling card and legacy. He also founded the Southern Gospel group The Sunday Edition in the 1970s [...]
The Essential Beverly Crawford, Volume 2
Beverly Crawford The Essential – Vol. 2 JDI Records (release date: February 2, 2018) By Bob Marovich Gainesville, Florida, gospel singer Beverly Crawford is a steadfast traditionalist, and God bless her for it. She is among the most popular of those singers who perpetuate the audience-rousing squalling and shouting characteristic of [...]
The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down
The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down Put Together Music (release date: February 16, 2018) www.shawnamos.com By Bob Marovich The Reverend Shawn Amos might just be the most righteous preacher who’s not a preacher. Amos, whose mother was nightclub singer Shirl-ee May and whose father was a William Morris Agency [...]
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RIP: Deon Unthank, Founder and CEO of AbsolutelyGospel.com
LEBANON, TN - (December 20, 2021) - Deon Unthank, founder and CEO of AbsolutelyGospel.com, peacefully passed into the arms of his Savior on Friday, December 17, 2021, surrounded by his family. Always a Southern Gospel singer and fan first, Deon founded AbsolutelyGospel.com (formerly SoGospelNews.com), with his deceased wife Susan in 1997. The site gained national prominence and became a leading voice in the industry in the early 2000s that has continued to this day. The site's awards program, Absolutely Gospel Music Awards, became it's calling card and legacy. He also founded the Southern Gospel group The Sunday Edition in the 1970s [...]
The Essential Beverly Crawford, Volume 2
Beverly Crawford The Essential – Vol. 2 JDI Records (release date: February 2, 2018) By Bob Marovich Gainesville, Florida, gospel singer Beverly Crawford is a steadfast traditionalist, and God bless her for it. She is among the most popular of those singers who perpetuate the audience-rousing squalling and shouting characteristic of [...]
The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down
The Reverend Shawn Amos Breaks It Down Put Together Music (release date: February 16, 2018) www.shawnamos.com By Bob Marovich The Reverend Shawn Amos might just be the most righteous preacher who’s not a preacher. Amos, whose mother was nightclub singer Shirl-ee May and whose father was a William Morris Agency [...]
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“I Don’t Know”T-JuanFrom the No Compromise Records CD The Arrival 2008www.nocompromiserecords.comOpening with faux snippets of radio reports about the shooting of sixteen year-olds in Jacksonville, Florida, religious rapper T-Juan’s “I [...]
RaisheinBelieveRaishein Productions 2008www.raishein.comHouston’s singer-songwriter Raishein sounds like she could be Damita Haddon’s younger sister. She has a soft, light and youthful voice that delivers simple praise and worship lyrics to [...]
“Butterfly”Candi StatonFrom the CD I Will Sing My Praise to YouEmtro Gospel 2008www.emtro.comCandi Staton may be better known to the general public as a 1970s disco queen, but she is [...]
On Tuesday, March 3 from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m., BBC Radio 2 will air "Shout Sister Shout," a documentary on Sister Rosetta Tharpe narrated by Ruby Turner and written by [...]
Walter “The Big Man” Butts marieswanger429 hotGet High on JesusElisha Music 1991No matter what style of sacred music Chicago’s Rev. Walter “The Big Man” Butts sings, when he opens his [...]
From the Dove Awards website: individual (and categories of) black gospel artists nominated for the 40th Annual Gospel Music Association (GMA) Dove Awards.The 40th Annual GMA Dove Awards ceremony will [...]
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In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
