About Melanie Pratt
Melanie began her career in radio when she joined the on-air staff at Praise 100.9 in 2006. She is a three-time Stellar Award nominee for Gospel Announcer of the Year, a preliminary judge for BET’s hit show Sunday Best, and has been recognized in Who’s Who in Black Charlotte. In 2013, she was an inaugural recipient of the Stellar Woman of Gospel Award for her contribution behind the scenes in the gospel industry. In 2015, she was awarded the 1st Melvin Crispell Gospel Heritage Award and was recognized as one of ten Most Influential Radio Personalities by the Gospel Music Industry Round-up. And in 2016 she was awarded Radio Show of The Year by the Queen City Music Awards. A self-proclaimed foodie - in particular tacos - and founder of the Foodie Flash Mob, Melanie had the pleasure of serving as judge of the Carolina Food Truck Chow Down. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Harvest Center, a transitional program for the homeless and underserved in Charlotte. Melanie is an ordained Elder in the Life Center Fellowship where she and her husband Bryan, serve as Young Adult Pastors.
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Motown Gospel recording artist Tye Tribbett’s new album, Greater Than hits stores on August 6. Fans will receive a new song instantly from Greater Than by pre-ordering now at iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/greater-than/id672949110). This week, Tribbett’s hit single “If He Did It Before…Same God” moves up to #3 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Song chart and has […]
Motown Gospel recording artist Tasha Cobbs makes her first appearance on BET’s Sunday Best on the heels of her #1 gospel song, “Break Every Chain.” The single is also Motown Gospel’s first #1 radio song. The hit praise and worship anthem is from her major label debut album Grace, currently in the Top 5 on […]
Multiple award-winning recording artist and conference founder, Kierra Sheard hosts the fourth annual BRL (Bold Right Life) Experience and Concert, Thursday, August 15 through Saturday, August 17, 2013, at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God In Christ, Detroit, MI The BRL Experience will kick-off on Thursday, August 15, with day sessions featuring Pastor Weldon […]
via Gospelflava.com Award winning worship leader and recording artist Israel Houghton announced plans for this year’s Deeper Conference, taking place August 14th – 17th in Houston, Texas. The conference will bring together some of the top names in praise and worship, including William McDowell, Pastor Jason Nelson, David and Nicole Binion, Bishop Joseph Garlington, […]
Worst states for a first offense 1 (tie) Georgia 1 (tie) Illinois 3 North Carolina 4 Nevada 5 New Hampshire You can end up with a $1,000 fine in these states; maybe worse if the judge is in a bad mood. Worst state to fight a ticket: Massachussetts In 2005, a guy tried […]
via blog.gospelflava.com Grammy and Dove award winners Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir directed by Carol Cymbala and Bishop Hezekiah Walker’s Love Fellowship Choir will mark the end of the summer with their first ever combined concert on Sunday, September 1st at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The mass choir will do a unity concert of songs from both […]
via blog.gospelflava.com While keeping up with a hectic concert schedule and preparing for the Everybody Get Up Worship Tour featuring supergroup United Tenors in the fall, Fred Hammond is getting in gear for the theatrical debut of JD Lawrence’s Cain & Able. Described as a suspenseful dramedy, Hammond and Lawrence are cast as two estranged […]
Rough times in the Motor City. In the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, Detroit has asked a federal judge for permission to put the city into Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. The city’s deficit is upwards of $18 billion and residents keep fleeing city limits in record number (a quarter-million residents in the […]
via AlwaysAList.com AlwaysAList.com has learned exclusively that TLC has canceled its controversial reality series “The Sisterhood.” A source close to the production told us definitively, “It absolutely won’t be back!” The reality show was set in Atlanta and chronicled the lives of the wives of several less-than-prominent preachers. The five member cast included Domonique […]
Tina Turner and Erwin Bach, her record producer beau of 27 years, are making things official. The New York Post reports that the couple, living together in Switzerland since the 1990s, will “make honest” July 21 either at their Lake Zurich home or at their French Riviera villa. Turner, 73, recently said she is “happier […]
George Zimmerman’s fate now lies in the hands of a jury. Closing arguments were finished Friday afternoon and the nation awaits a verdict.
Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda began his closing argument by highlighting that George Zimmerman made wrong assumptions about Trayvon Martin. “A teenager is dead. He is dead through no fault of his own. He is dead because another man made assumptions,” de la Rionda said. “That man assumed certain things. He’s dead not just because […]