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Brian Courtney Wilson to Appear on the McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour Holiday Experience December 12
By Robert M. Marovich On Sunday, December 12, at 8 p.m. ET, McDonald’s USA will deliver the gift of music to McDonald’s fans through its Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour Holiday Experience. Yolanda Adams, Kurt Carr, James Fortune, The Walls Group, and Brian Courtney Wilson, and featuring BET’s Sunday Best winner Stephanie Summers, will grace the virtual stage to ring in the season with some of their chart-topping hits and holiday carols and gospel music. The show, hosted by multi-award-winning musician and syndicated radio personality Lonnie Hunter, will air on BET Network’s YouTube Channel. In addition to their solo spots, the [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: March 19, 2018
“Prayer Room” Jarell Smalls & Co. From the CD A New Season Southern Wave Music Group / Get Ready Music Group (release date: May 19, 2017) http://jarellsmalls.com/ By Bob Marovich By evoking Grandma at the outset, Jarell Smalls gives the appropriate old-school pedigree to “Prayer Room.” Then, to a rockabilly-guitar-meets-Pentecostal-beat, [...]
RIP: Ann Yancy, Chicago Gospel Music Pioneer
By Bob Marovich Dennis Cole of the Chicago Alliance informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Ann Yancy passed away March 12, 2018, at the age of 87. Affectionately known as "Mama," Ann Yancy was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 29, 1930. After moving to Chicago, she became a [...]
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Brian Courtney Wilson to Appear on the McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour Holiday Experience December 12
By Robert M. Marovich On Sunday, December 12, at 8 p.m. ET, McDonald’s USA will deliver the gift of music to McDonald’s fans through its Inspiration Celebration® Gospel Tour Holiday Experience. Yolanda Adams, Kurt Carr, James Fortune, The Walls Group, and Brian Courtney Wilson, and featuring BET’s Sunday Best winner Stephanie Summers, will grace the virtual stage to ring in the season with some of their chart-topping hits and holiday carols and gospel music. The show, hosted by multi-award-winning musician and syndicated radio personality Lonnie Hunter, will air on BET Network’s YouTube Channel. In addition to their solo spots, the [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: March 19, 2018
“Prayer Room” Jarell Smalls & Co. From the CD A New Season Southern Wave Music Group / Get Ready Music Group (release date: May 19, 2017) http://jarellsmalls.com/ By Bob Marovich By evoking Grandma at the outset, Jarell Smalls gives the appropriate old-school pedigree to “Prayer Room.” Then, to a rockabilly-guitar-meets-Pentecostal-beat, [...]
RIP: Ann Yancy, Chicago Gospel Music Pioneer
By Bob Marovich Dennis Cole of the Chicago Alliance informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Ann Yancy passed away March 12, 2018, at the age of 87. Affectionately known as "Mama," Ann Yancy was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 29, 1930. After moving to Chicago, she became a [...]
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Perfect PeaceJesus is a Sure ThingSelf-produced 2006(256) 329-2258Husband and wife gospel singing duos have been active at least since the 1920s. Prominent examples include Memphis evangelists A.C. and Mamie Forehand, [...]
Phil TarverDraw NearerKingdom Records 2006www.kingdomrecordsinc.comOn his solo project, Draw Nearer, praise and worship meister Phil Tarver offers up more of the graceful songs with simple melodies and singable lyrics that [...]
“I Wish”Heather HeadleyFrom the EMI Gospel CD Audience of Onewww.emigospel.comThis may seem a little early to predict, especially since her “Jesus Is Love” with Smokie Norful is the current chart [...]
Heather Headley performed Roberta Martin Singer Eugene Smith's "I Know the Lord Will Make a Way." Ricky Dillard was part of the program and, with New G, was a Stellar [...]
Pastor Marvin Sapp of Grand Rapids, Michigan was the top winner at the 24th Annual Stellar Awards, taped at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee Saturday evening, January 18.Sapp, [...]
From Saguaro Road Records:(Fairfax, VA) January 15, 2009 – The Blind Boys of Alabama will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording Academy as part of the [...]
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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.
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.
