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Steven Curtis Chapman to be Named First BMI Icon at the 2022 BMI Christian Awards

2022-06-02T02:59:24-05:00June 2nd, 2022|

Top Christian Songwriters and Publishers to be Honored at June 14 Event June 1, 2022 – Nashville, TN – Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) will celebrate the extraordinary and inspirational career of Steven Curtis Chapman by presenting him with the BMI Icon Award at the Company’s annual BMI Christian Awards, to [...]

Phil Thornton Named Senior Vice President of Capitol Christian Music Group

2022-04-20T01:04:03-05:00April 20th, 2022|

Phil Thornton; photo by Wardell Malloy NASHVILLE, April 19, 2022—Highly-regarded music executive Phil Thornton has been appointed Senior Vice President of Capitol Christian Music Group (Capitol CMG), it was announced today by the company’s co-presidents, Brad O’Donnell and Hudson Plachy, to whom Thornton reports. In his newly created [...]

BMI Celebrates the Best in Gospel Music at the 2022 Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards

2022-04-05T15:25:46-05:00April 1st, 2022|

Right: BMI Gospel Songwriter of the Year honorees Kierra and J Drew Sheard II at the 2022 BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards. Photo Credit: Steve Lowry for BMI. “Speak To Me” Named BMI’s Gospel Song of the Year Aaron Lindsey, J Drew Sheard II, Kierra Sheard and Jeshua “TedyP” [...]

52nd Dove Awards Winners

2021-10-28T01:22:45-05:00October 28th, 2021|

Mali Music and Jonathan McReynolds perform at Dove Awards. Photo by Jamie Gilliam. CECE WINANS A BIG WINNER AT THE 52ND DOVE AWARDS Marvin Sapp, Lecrae, Maverick City Music Win Too! Nashville, TN (October 26, 2021) – The 52nd GMA Dove Awards were recently handed out in 38 [...]

The Robert Broussard Story

2021-09-01T02:01:19-05:00September 1st, 2021|

Partly based on telephone interviews with Robert Broussard in 2005 By Opal Louis Nations Robert Broussard is sadly one of the unheralded baritone shout leads from gospel quartet’s Golden Age. He led the jubilee-rooted Ever Ready Gospel Singers of Shreveport in 1953-1954, then switched to Nashville’s famous Skylarks Quartet near [...]

RIP Gospel Radio Icon Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson, 65

2021-08-26T16:45:55-05:00August 26th, 2021|

Eboni Funderburk, Kenny Smoov (92Q), Tammy Taylor, Denell Nashville, TN -- Legendary Stellar Award and NAACP Award-winning radio announcer Connie Denell Cato-Dickerson was the pride of Nashville. The daughter of radio legend Evelyn Cato, the first black female disc-jockey in the Southeast, Denell started as a sports reporter [...]

JGM Pick of the Week August 23, 2021

2021-08-24T00:55:49-05:00August 24th, 2021|

“Redeemed” Denita Gibbs IndieBlu / eOne Music (release date: June 25, 2021) www.denitagibbs.com By Robert M. Marovich Denita Gibbs of Birmingham, Alabama (now living in Nashville), is an excellent gospel artist who has not gotten an even break since her 2013 project, the five-star Without You (Audiostate 55 Entertainment). For [...]

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