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Kierra Sheard to Receive BMI Impact Award at 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Multiple award-winning artist and songwriter Kierra Sheard will receive the BMI Impact Award in recognition of her impressive career and impact on the future of gospel music.
“Jesus I Do” – Mariah Carey feat. The Clark Sisters
“Jesus I Do” is a collaboration between Mariah Carey and the Clark Sisters. It appears on Carey’s 2025 album, Here For It All.
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Kierra Sheard to Receive BMI Impact Award at 2026 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards
Multiple award-winning artist and songwriter Kierra Sheard will receive the BMI Impact Award in recognition of her impressive career and impact on the future of gospel music.
“Jesus I Do” – Mariah Carey feat. The Clark Sisters
“Jesus I Do” is a collaboration between Mariah Carey and the Clark Sisters. It appears on Carey’s 2025 album, Here For It All.
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The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to hear of the passing of legendary singer Roscoe Robinson, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was 97.
Tasha Cobbs Leonard has earned the Outstanding Gospel/Christian Album accolade for her critically acclaimed studio debut TASHA at the 57th NAACP Image Awards.
Pastor Mike Jr. has launched a bold and headline-grabbing social media initiative titled “PMJ vs AI.” The campaign challenges the growing presence of AI-generated artists and songs dominating Christian and Gospel music charts.
This episode includes music reviewed on the Journal of Gospel Music between October 2025 and mid-January 2026.
Deitrick Haddon and Voices of Unity released Chain Breaker 2.5, which honors its ancestor by offering new music as well as a modernistic reimagining of several Chain Breaker favorites.
Established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in May 2024, GIC was created to address one pressing reality: the Gospel music industry can no longer afford to operate in isolated silos.
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LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
PJ Morton Gospel According to PJ Morton Inspiration / Tyscot (digital release date: August 14, 2020; physical release date: November 27, 2020) www.tyscot.com By Bob Marovich Much is being made about Gospel According to PJ being PJ Morton’s return to gospel. But like the Reverend C. L. Franklin said of his GRAMMY-winning daughter Aretha, Bishop [...]
Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) Curb (release date: August 10, 2020) lou123 creampiewww.fiskjubileesingers.org By Bob Marovich On the eve of the sesquicentennial of its founding, the Fisk Jubilee Singers have released an album more musically and culturally diverse than any of its other recordings, going back more than a century. Founded [...]
Nashville Life Music Here for Jesus Integrity Music (release date: July 17, 2020) www.nashvillelifemusic.com By Bob Marovich Nashville Life Music follows up last year’s Taylor House Sessions EP with even more delightful selections on its debut full-length album, Here for Jesus. Nashville Life Music is a young multicultural choir/group out of Nashville Life Church, a [...]
Myron Butler My Tribute Fair Trade / Columbia / Red Alliance Media (release date: June 26, 2020) By Bob Marovich Together with several of today's top-flight gospel artists, singer-songwriter Myron Butler pays homage to one of his chief inspirations, Andrae’ Crouch, with a feature-filled album called My Tribute. All but one of the selections are [...]
Rev. Luther Barnes & the Restoration Worship Center Choir Look to the Hills Shanachie Entertainment / SRT Entertainment (release date: May 29, 2020) www.shanachie.com By Bob Marovich Listening to the title track and lead single of Reverend Luther Barnes’ latest album, I revisited a thought I’ve had for some time: Barnes has emerged as today’s [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Jesus” Eldrick Rodgers feat. Michelle Prather Independent (release date: August 30, 2024)
“Brighter Days” Roshawn Nicole Roshawn Nicole Records (release date: May 4, 2024)
“It’s In Your Praise” Lamont McCoy David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
“Like Jabez” Ernest J. Lee David’s Dance Music (release date: December 31, 2024)
“Let Him In” Flint Cavaliers feat. Pastor Shawn Brown From the Flint Music Group album The Fellowship (Psalms 133:1) (album release date: March 15, 2024)
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Shirley Wahls and Roxie Bibbs
Conversations with the Gospel Legends with Bob Marovich. Gospel Greats, Shirley Wahls and Roxie Bibbs. from PCC Studio on Vimeo.
“Conversations with the Gospel Legends” presents the Reverend Donald Gay
Episode 3: The Reverend Donald Gay who, with his sisters Mildred, Geraldine, and Evelyn, formed the Gay Singers, talks about life in gospel music. JGM's Bob Marovich is host. Special thanks to the Reverend Harold Bailey for making this program possible.
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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.
By Bob Marovich After the release of his Billboard-charting School of Roses in 2014, Christon Gray had no idea what was coming. “I didn’t know that I would be going through a separation and then a divorce,” Gray told the Journal of Gospel Music. “I didn’t know that I would be moving. I didn’t know [...]
By Bob Marovich Written and produced by her son, Curtis Turrentine Jr., Evelyn Turrentine-Agee's “God Gave His Best” will be released Friday, October 5. It's the latest single from the Queen of Quartet, whose gospel music career spans several decades. Evelyn told the Journal of Gospel Music that her singing ministry began at the tender age of two. “At two years old, [...]
By Bob Marovich With seven of his singles, including the latest, “Like a Fire,” becoming Top 30 Christian Rock charting songs, Devin Williams has done what, to my knowledge, no Christian rocker has done to date: set his searing singles to the soothing sounds of a string quartet. Released August 31, Devin Williams with String Quartet was [...]
Spencer Taylor Jr. of the Highway QCs passed away at the age of 97.
