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3 unusual facts about Gospel Music


Bispham High School Arts College

The school also has a successful gospel choir, Bispham High School Gospel Choir, under the direction of Margaret Adereti (Conductor), Neill Oldham-Campbell (Accompanist) and Sarah Bagot (Vocal Support).

Gospel music

He repeated it the next year with an expanded list of performing artists, and in 1959 moved to Madison Square Garden.

WHOS

In October 1988, the station, which had been airing a Gospel music format, flipped to an all-Elvis Presley format using the advertising tagline "WHOS alive?".


16 Horsepower

Edwards' grandfather was a Nazarene preacher and young Edwards often went along as his elder preached the gospel to various peoples.

Barbara Fairchild

Barbara Fairchild (born November 12, 1950) is an American country and gospel singer, who is best known for her hit 1973 country song "The Teddy Bear Song."

Beans and Fatback

The music is similar to other of Wray's period recordings with distinctive "shack" sound and the same Americana blend of blues, country, gospel, and folk rock, but it is a slightly looser and harder-rocking set than Link Wray.

Black-appeal stations

This influence was in large part to Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who developed a new term for the upbeat music that combined elements for rhythm and blues, gospel, and country.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

It offers a broad range of instruction in areas of American song, jazz and gospel singing, Latin jazz, and African drumming.

But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?

"He's Disabled", "The Mourner's Bench", "Because of Him", and "Little Black Angel" are covers/re-interpretations of songs from Jim Jones' People's Temple Choir 1973 gospel album He's Able.

Cassiane

Cassiane Santana Santos Manhães Guimarães, or simply Cassiane (born January 27, 1973 in Nova Iguaçu, RJ, Brazil) is a Brazilian Gospel music Singer-songwriter, Christian Minister and Missionary.

Down in the River to Pray

"Down in the River to Pray" (also known as "Down to the River to Pray," "Down in the Valley to Pray," "The Good Old Way," and "Come, Let Us All Go Down") is a traditional song variously described as a Christian folk hymn, an African-American spiritual, an Appalachian song, and a gospel song.

Forever Jones

Forever Jones (usually stylized as forever JONES) is a Christian gospel group formed by husband and wife DeWitt and Kim Jones and their five children.

GospoCentric Records

GospoCentric Records is an Inglewood, California based Gospel music record label started as an independent label by Vicki Mack Lataillade and Claude Lataillade in 1993.

I Got a Lot of Hurtin' Done Today/I've Got My Baby On My Mind

Two additional religious songs were included on the album: Billy Graham's "Sunshine Blue" and Eddy Raven's "You'll See Jesus," as Smith was beginning to incorporate more Gospel music into her studio albums.

Joy Destiny Tobing

Joy Destiny Tiurma Tobing (born March 20, 1980, in Jakarta) is an Indonesian gospel singer and the winner of the first season of Indonesian Idol in September 2004.

Laugh to Keep from Crying

Carol (Cheryl Pepsii Riley) is a single mother raising two teenagers: Tony (Donny Sykes), who is studious and participates in gospel choir; and Lisa (Tamar Davis), who is rebellious and refuses to attend church.

Malaco Records

Malaco is and has been the home of various major soul, blues and gospel acts, such as Johnnie Taylor, Bobby Bland, Z. Z. Hill, Denise LaSalle, Benny Latimore, Dorothy Moore, Little Milton, Shirley Brown, Marvin Sease, and the Mississippi Mass Choir.

Martha Munizzi

Munizzi also performed with the Gospel trio Virtue on their 2006 album Testimony on the song Praises to You.

Myrna Summers

Myrna Summers (born 30 March 1949) is a Gospel Music singer who has performed professionally for over four decades and is now the Minister of Music at Reid Temple A.M.E. Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland.

Rabbit Brown

His topical event songs, "Mystery of the Dunbar's Child" and "Sinking of the Titanic" also remain popular - and the latter contained within its verses a truncated rendition of the old gospel music standard "Nearer, My God, to Thee," demonstrating the further versatility of his repertoire.

She Works Hard for the Money

She Works Hard For The Money was more pop/dance oriented than the two precedent Donna Summer albums, but also contained some soulful ballads, including "Love Has a Mind of Its Own", a duet with gospel singer Matthew Ward.

Song Bird Records

Song Bird Records (also known as SongBird Records) was started at the end of 1963 as a gospel music subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Duke/Peacock Records.

Soul blues

Singers and musicians who grew up listening to the traditional electric blues of artists such as Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and Elmore James; soul singers such as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and Otis Redding; and gospel music wanted to bridge their favorite music together.

The Beatles Complete On Ukulele

"Let It Be" has been performed by a gospel choir with samples taken from some of President Barack Obama's speeches pasted together to form the lyrics of the song.

The Genius Sings the Blues

Hailing from Greenville, Florida, Ray Charles assimilated much of the Southern black man's musical heritage with its various blues stories, folk songs, and gospel revelations.

The Winner in Me

The Winner in Me is the 2nd solo contemporary Gospel album (fourth overall) by former SWV member Coko.

This Little Light

"This Little Light" is a song by the British hip-hop act LZ7, and is based around a sample of the 20th century gospel track "This Little Light of Mine".

Transparent in Your Presence

Transparent in Your Presence is the second and final gospel CD recorded by Byron Cage & Purpose released in the summer of 1996.

Varekai

Violaine combined the sounds of Hawaiian rituals, 11th-century French troubadour songs, traditional Armenian melodies and gospel music with contemporary arrangements to create the sound of Varekai.

WDTK

WMBC was an early outlet for religious programming and gospel music in Detroit, but was probably most famous as the home of conservative radio commentator Jerry Buckley, who was shot dead in the lobby of the LaSalle Hotel in 1930 after successfully campaigning for a mayoral recall election in which then-mayor Charles Bowles lost.

WEGL

WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.

WENO

It is currently programmed with a gospel music format and has a power of 1,000 watts; operation is limited to daytime hours to prevent interference to WJR, Detroit, Michigan.

Z. Z. Hill

Born in Naples, Texas, United States, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas.


see also

CMTA

Christian Music Trade Association, an organization associated with the Christian music industry that focuses on traditional Gospel music, Southern Gospel music, and Contemporary Christian music.

Craig Karmazin

In 2006, he entered the Cleveland market simultaneously purchasing the gospel music station WABQ 1540 and the rights to the ESPN brand from sports talk station 850 WKNR, reformatting WABQ as a sports station.

Dixie Melody Boys

Under O'Neal, the group has discovered singers who have gone on to become prominent in Gospel music, including McCray Dove with the Dove Brothers, Rodney Griffin with Greater Vision,Bryan Walker, who went on to become a contestant on Season 9 of American Idol and then later joined The Perrys, and Devin McGlamery with Signature Sound.

Gospel Music Workshop of America

Gospel Music Workshop of America is an international music convention founded by Rev. James Cleveland along with Albertina Walker (Queen of Gospel Music) in 1967.

Jason and the G-Men

In 1993 they appeared at the Gospel Music Association's Music in the Rockies New Artists Showcase.

Jesse B. Aikin

After the influential Ruebush & Kieffer Publishing Company began using his notehead shapes around 1876 (previously they used Funk's shapes), the Aikin shapes eventually became the prevailing standard in shape note and gospel music publication, although few other compilers adopted his other innovations.

KPSR-LP

KPSR-LP is Modesto's only true Urban formatted radio station playing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School, Classic soul and Gospel music, catering to the mainstream and adult audiences in the relatively demographically small African American community.

Lady Saw

In November 2012 she announced that she was turning her back on dancehall and would be concentrating on Gospel music in future.

LS Records

LS Records was best known for bringing Stoller's wife, Cristy Lane (an American country-gospel music singer) to fame in the late 70s.

Ouachita Baptist University

Russ Taff - former Gaither Vocal Band and Imperial Quartet member and renowned soloist in the Southern gospel music industry

Rank Strangers

In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition.

Ronnie McNeir

He also was nominated for a Grammy in the Gospel Music category in 1981 for his collaboration with Rance Allen and in 2007, he released “Ronnie Mac & Company,” which features collaborations with Kirk Whalum, Kathy Lamar and fellow Four Top Theo Peoples.

Singers Glen, Virginia

Thanks to Joseph Funk it is the birthplace of gospel music in the south.

Stephen W. Wood

Acting/theater/performing experience includes an 'extra' in the George Clooney movie, Leatherheads (May 2007); the role of Burl Sanders in the gospel music comedy, Smoke on the Mountain, produced by the Little Theatre of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (September 2007); an 'extra' in stock car racing film, Red Dirt Rising (November 2007); role of Ralph Levering in This Tender Place, Cherry Orchard Theater, Cana, VA, (August 2008);

The Legend of Jimi Lazer

He promoted such acts as Phil Keaggy and Second Chapter of Acts, and Freedom 88, a three-day alternative Gospel Music festival at Bingeman Park in Kitchener, Ontario with Steve Taylor, Adam Again, and the Grammy-award winning band The Choir.

Tony Fontane

When he abandoned his popular career and refused to sing anything other than gospel music, he was sued by the William Morris Agency for breach of contract and lost everything.

University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music

Donald Lawrence (B.F.A. Musical Theatre) - Multi Stellar award winning Gospel Music Singer, Composer and Choir Director

Urban contemporary gospel

She has won multiple awards, including four Grammy Awards, four of the Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards, one American Music Award, seven NAACP Image Awards, one Soul Train Music Award, and three BET Awards.

Vestal Goodman

Her original intent was to study for the Metropolitan Opera, but being raised in church she felt compelled to sing Gospel music.

WFMV

WFMV offers mostly contemporary gospel music with some classics, from artists such as CeCe Winans, Smokie Norful, Mary Mary, Shirley Caesar, John P. Kee, The Georgia Mass Choir, and Kirk Franklin.