Warryn Campbell’s professional career started with Death Row Records, however he grew up in the church. After producing songs for artists like Brandy, Tupac and others he wanted to do something different and pursued Gospel. After meeting his now wife Erica Campbell he formed the group “Mary Mary” with Erica’s sister Tina Atkin and the […]
Erica Campbell of the Gospel duo Mary Mary sat down with us to discuss the current state of Black music. “It’s kind of selfish. People want to turn up but I feel like if you’re turning up you should have something real to celebrate,” she said. However, she credits black culture for inspiring her to […]
Erica Campbell of the Gospel duo Mary Mary sat down with us to discuss the current state of Black music. “It’s kind of selfish. People want to turn up but I feel like if you’re turning up you should have something real to celebrate,” she said. However, she credits black culture for inspiring her to […]
Deitrick Haddon‘s new song “Be Like Jesus” already had us moving our feet and bobbing our heads in praise when it came out. With this…
via Gospelflava.com We mourn the passing of the legendary Bishop Walter Hawkins. Hawkins is one of the most beloved figures in contemporary Gospel Music today.
Our own Francene Marie talks about her favorite songs and artists. If you could meet any singer – dead or alive – who would you want to meet? Why? Prince, Gerald Levert, and Frankie Beverly. They would be some icons that could share some great stories. What song brings back the most memories for you? […]
Singer, activist Monica Raye Simpson talks would love to meet Luther Vandross and would die without music. Read about her love for black music. Simpson is the fundraising coordinator for Grassroots Fundraiser Coordinator. If you could meet any singer – dead or alive – who would you want to meet? Why? I would want to […]
My92.7 radio host Patrick Cannon is also the city council’s mayor pro tem. Cannon has been a longtime fixture in Charlotte’s face. We wrap up Black Music Month by occasionally highlight My92.7 radio personalities and deejays. Negro spirituals provided the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. What do you listen to you to inspire you […]
As I was reading the latest issue of Vibe Magazine, I was introduced to a North Carolina based folk music group - the Carolina Chocolate Drops. I decided to do a little investigation and found out that the group is a part of an old North Carolina musical tradition.
By Tom Hanchett, historian Levine Museum of the New South Golden Gate Quartet In the late 1930s this quartet burst onto the national scene, thanks to records made in Charlotte, and introduced the hot sound of swing to acapella gospel. The Gates started singing as teenagers in Virginia, then moved to Charlotte to perform live […]
Jermaine Nakia Lee is fixture on Charlotte’s creative arts scene. In the past seven years, he’s written, directed or starred in plays that highlight devastation of AIDS in the black community, police brutality and highlighting artists from the Harlem Renaissance. He most recently starred in “Tribe,” a play about a single black mother struggling to […]
By Tom Hanchett Today J.H. Gunn is barely remembered as the long-ago principal of J.H. Gunn School off Albemarle Road on Charlotte’s east side. But 80 years ago this African American leader was known throughout the eastern U.S. as a recording and touring musician at the helm of Jimmie Gunn and His Orchestra. J. H. […]