Posted in Gospel on Jan 5th, 2009
In an interesting trend, urban/black churches and their members are beginning to follow church leaders into the suburbs.
“Traditionally, African Americans were driving back to the home church in the central city,” said Michael Emerson, founding director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University. “But as you get into the [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Gospel on Dec 22nd, 2008
In New Orleans, world renowned tenor Placido Domingo, Gospel singer Yolanda Adams; violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, and a slate of famed local musicians will take the stage next month for a week of performances to re-open the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, which has been closed since it was damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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Posted in Gospel on Dec 22nd, 2008
Approaching the end of a monumental year, Zomba Gospel maintains its leadership position in the Gospel music industry by being named Top Gospel Album Label in Billboard Magazine’s Year End issue.
With over 20 top-charting releases this year, Zomba Gospel also holds multiple spots on Billboard’s list of Top Gospel Albums (#1 Thirsty/Marvin Sapp); [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 11th, 2008
BMI will honor Gospel artists CeCe Winans, Donald Lawrence and Twinkie Clark at its 10th Annual Trailblazer of Gospel Music Awards Luncheon on Friday, January 16 2009. The invitation only ceremony will take place at Rocketown in Nashville.
CeCe Winans’ career has generated a trove of top-shelf industry accolades comprising numerous Grammy, Stellar and [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 10th, 2008
Singer Darryl Jovan Williams, a 2008 AUDELCO Award nominee and also the 1996 $10,000 Gold Prize Winner of Savannah On Stage American Traditions Competition, steps into the role of “Judas Iscariot” for the Louis St. Louis’ Gospel adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
The musical will premier at the Alliance Theater Atlanta on [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 9th, 2008
The nominations for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were announced recently and leading in the nominations in the “Gospel” field is Mary Mary with three nominations.
CeCe Winans, Brandon Heath and Kirk Franklin each have two nominations.
In addition to Mary Mary, Integrity Music’s Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, Blind Boys of Alabama and Tye Tribbett will [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 5th, 2008
Pentecostal charisma, baptist fire, flourishes of non-denominational worship and a natural Hip Hop flow are the ingredients of young gospel sensations, 21:03.
The award winning production team, PAJAM (Paul “PDA” Allen, J Moss, and Walter Kearney ) was looking for a more youthful version of themselves when they sponsored a talent search in Detroit [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 5th, 2008
Tyscot Records’ Damita will be featured in a 30-minute Christmas Television special this Saturday, December 6th at 6:00 p.m. EST on The Gospel Music Channel (GMC). Her number one music video, “No Looking Back,” will also be featured on the show. The following day, Sunday, December 7th, Damita will perform “O Holy Night” during a [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 4th, 2008
BET will “Raise the Praise” on Sunday, January 25 at 8:00 p.m.* with its ninth annual mega-hit, “Celebration of Gospel.” With a 24-piece orchestra led by world-renowned musical director Ray Chew, the show will again be hosted by veteran comedian, actor and popular syndicated radio personality, Steve Harvey, who has hosted the BET Gospel celebration [...]
Posted in Gospel, JENNIFER HUDSON, Law and Order on Dec 2nd, 2008
Jennifer Hudson’s estranged brother-in-law was charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of three of her family members.
Prosecutors handed down formal charges against William Balfour in the deaths of Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew, said Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Balfour had been in custody [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 2nd, 2008
With a bevy of accolades - multiple Grammy and Stellar award nominations; Nesby is one of music’s elite and the singer that American Idol’s Randy Jackson called “one of the best singers in the world!”
Now comes a special moment in Tyscot Records’ 30-plus year history, it has signed the Grammy Award winning urban/Gospel singing [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Gospel on Dec 1st, 2008
The “Queen of Gospel,” Mahalia Jackson, was remembered Sunday in a musical tribute at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Pomona, California. Various singers, including the Los Angeles Chapter of the Gospel Workshop of America Choir, performed in honor of Mahalia.
“Jackson left quite a musical legacy, but she is not well known by younger [...]
Posted in Gospel on Dec 1st, 2008
Barry R. Herr, 62, was recently sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling about $1.1 million from his church, Evangelical Lutheran Church, where he once worked.
Herr, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud, was also ordered to pay $800,000 in restitution to the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in [...]
Posted in Gospel on Nov 28th, 2008
In Chicago, Rev. Jeremiah Wright spoke for two hours with WVON’s Cliff Kelley on everything from being glad that Obama was elected to the way he was portrayed in the media. He made his most extensive comments to date about Barack Obama and the race for the presidency during a radio interview Tuesday evening.
In [...]
Posted in Gospel on Nov 28th, 2008
Churches and Christian organizations in India have condemned terrorist attacks across Mumbai that have left 125 people dead and 300 injured.
According to an article written by Jennifer Gold (www.christiantoay.com) armed men took hundreds of tourists hostage in the Taj Mahal Palace and Oberoi Trident hotels late Wednesday night as part of a coordinated attack [...]
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