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Tasha Cobbs Leonard Wins First-Ever NAACP Image Award for ‘TASHA’
Tasha Cobbs Leonard has earned the Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album accolade for her critically acclaimed studio debut TASHA at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.
RIP: “Mama” Mosie Burks, Lead Singer with the Mississippi Mass Choir
Mosie Burks, lead singer with the Mississippi Mass Choir, passed away July 7, 2025, at the age of 92.
RIP: Dr. Lou Della Evans-Reid – Choir Director for Fellowship Chicago, GMAC Mass Choir
Dr. Lou Della Evans Reid, renowned gospel choir director, passed away June 5, 2025.
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Tasha Cobbs Leonard Wins First-Ever NAACP Image Award for ‘TASHA’
Tasha Cobbs Leonard has earned the Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album accolade for her critically acclaimed studio debut TASHA at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.
RIP: “Mama” Mosie Burks, Lead Singer with the Mississippi Mass Choir
Mosie Burks, lead singer with the Mississippi Mass Choir, passed away July 7, 2025, at the age of 92.
RIP: Dr. Lou Della Evans-Reid – Choir Director for Fellowship Chicago, GMAC Mass Choir
Dr. Lou Della Evans Reid, renowned gospel choir director, passed away June 5, 2025.
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“Away in a Manager” The Wardlaw Brothers Available on iTunes Appropriately, the final Pick of the Week for 2016 is a beloved nineteenth-century Christmas carol given a contemporary flourish by the Wardlaw Brothers. Cascading harmonies introduce a slight variation on the carol's traditional melody, giving the piece even more of a lullaby-like quality. A delicate string-led arrangement [...]
“Born Again” Kinsmen www.kinsmenmusic.com Kinsmen is a Chicago-area quartet of young men with old souls. Their single, “Born Again,” is an up-tempo celebration of spiritual renewal peppered with old-as-the-hills lyric couplets, all propelled by a hip-slapping gospel quartet beat. At the same time, the musicians give the song a contemporary feel, as do the high [...]
“Operator 911” Chris Byrd & the Heavenaires From the album Diversified (released August 2016) Available from digital music outlets Chris Byrd and the Heavenaires dust off and update “Operator,” the Cleveland-based Friendly Brothers’ 1959 classic covered in the 1970s by a cappella vocal group the Manhattan Transfer. In their hands, it is now known as [...]
“Let It Be Done” Albert White Overboard Records (2016) www.cdbaby.com/cd/albertwhiteandavop From the opening moans and the gospel waltz tempo to the blue notes and the opening line, “I know sometimes life gets you down and it seems like there's trouble all around,” everything about “Let It Be Done” shouts traditional gospel. Then there's the warbling organ, [...]
“Excuse Me” Chrystal Rucker HBK Media (2016) Chrystal Rucker is one of the most gifted vocalists in gospel music today. Although some of her best work thus far has been on passionately rendered slow songs, “Excuse Me” gives her a chance to front a shoulder-shaking praiser. On "Excuse Me," Rucker only hints at the reasons [...]
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.
Yvonne Wesley-Seabrooks, president of the Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild, informed TBGB that Bill "The Mailman" Martin, gospel announcer and president of the Texas Chapter of the Gospel Announcers Guild, died in his sleep yesterday. Born in Asheville, North Carolina and, at one time, a budding jazz saxophonist, Martin became Austin Texas's most popular [...]
Tammy Taylor of One EnTiTy in Nashville reported that Lady Edna Tatum, "The Voice," passed away. Taylor reported that Edna can be heard on Gospel Music Workshop of America recordings, as well as on Kurt Carr projects. Gregory Gay of GOSPELflava.com noted that she can be heard introducing the choir on the Hawkins Family's Love Alive [...]
