Gospel
BET’s Sunday Best Season 5 winner and Mixed Bag Music Gospel recording artist Joshua Rogers is RETURNING with new music after a 5 year recording hiatus and is set to make multiple high-profile public appearances – his first in several years in Las Vegas during the 33rd annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards this weekend including: […]
Israel Houghton tops the Billboard charts this week with Cory Asbury’s “Reckless Love”. Houghton has a new EP coming in the Spring. Check out the single, here:
With over 40 albums and 11 Grammy Awards, Shirley Caesar is the reigning Queen of Gospel Music. Beginning her career at 12 years old, she was a vocal phenomenon whose teenage talent earned her a spot in the popular all female gospel group the Caravans, where she became a standout star. In the early 1970s […]
Central City Productions announces a dazzling line-up of performers for the 2018 Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards, including the reunion of contemporary gospel music’s favorite sister act, Mary Mary (Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell), and the Stellar Award’s debut of rapper, actor, and television personality Snoop Dogg, performing songs from his new gospel album “Songs of Love” at this year’s show. Celebrated […]
Tasha Cobbs Leonard will join Pastor John Gray and current praise and worship leader, Todd Galberth at Relentless Church in Greenville, SC. Officially announced last week, she will serve as praise and worship leader at the former Redemption Church, previously led by Apostle Ron Carpenter. Carpenter recently stepped down to make the move to Jubilee […]
Fred Hammond is reviving the Festival of Praise for 2018 and this time, he’s taking the fellas. The all new line up includes Hammond himself, along with Pastor Charles Jenkins, Donnie McClurkin, Take 6, and James Fortune. “Texture of a Man” kicks off March 27th in Shreveport, Louisiana and right now ends May 20th in Long […]
Snoop is set to drop the highly anticipated gospel project Bible of Love. Many wonder why gospel this time, and it turns out the project is a fulfillment of a promise. Snoop promised his grandmother that he would never forget where his blessings come from, and since music is his language, Bible of Love was […]
Anthony Brown & group therAPy celebrate a ‘stellar’ year of recognition. Their current album, A LONG WAY FROM SUNDAY received 10 Stellar Award nominations this year, the most by any artist. The 2018 Stellar Award nominations were recently announced and Brown led the way receiving the nods in all major categories. Among the categories announced […]
A celebration of the life of Edwin Hawkins will take place beginning on February 6 at Harbor Light Church in Fremont, CA. The Hawkins Family is asking that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Music & Arts by mailing checks to, Music & Arts, PO Box 27107, Oakland, CA 94602 or online […]
Last night’s 49th NAACP Image Awards went down last night live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. Anthony Anderson hosted the two-hour awards show which aired on TV One. Greenleaf Volume 2 walked away with the win for Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary). Check out the list of winners in all categories […]
Edwin Reuben Hawkins (August 19, 1943 – January 15, 2018) was an American gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger. He was one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He (as leader of the Edwin Hawkins Singers) was probably best known for his arrangement of “Oh Happy Day” (1968–69), which was included on the Songs of the Century list. […]