gospel music
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This Viral Asian Praise Team That Sounds Just Like Black Gospel Singers Has Black Folks Divided
One online user declared those outside of the Black community "love to have the rhythm BUT NEVER THE BLUES!”
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Kirk Franklin Apologizes to Fans For His Dirty Dancing Seen Around The World
“I sincerely apologize because I never want to get to a place that I can’t learn what I need to do better,” he told his nearly two million YouTube subscribers.
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BruceGlen’s “The Sermon” Fashion Show Took Sunday Service To Stunning New Levels
The vibrant collection featured Amazon Prime Harlem actress Shoniqua Shandai and gospel singer Naomi Raine.
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Gospel Community Mourns the Loss of Legendary Singer Rance Allen: 'He Will Surely Enrich the Heavenly Choir'
This one hurts. On Saturday morning came the news that Bishop Rance Allen, the legendary gospel singer and minister who gave us “Something About the Name of James” and could sing circles around every single last one of your favorites, had transitioned. He was 71. On The Rance Allen Group’s Facebook page, Ellen Allen, Allen’s…
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Pharrell to Executive Produce Netflix Docuseries Centered Around Gospel Music
As if it were possible, it appears that Pharrell is in an even more creative space than usual. The music and entertainment mogul confirmed on Sunday at the virtual Essence Festival program “Get Lifted” that he will be teaming up with Netflix to present Voices of Fire. The show is billed as a docuseries centered…
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Troy Sneed, Grammy-Nominated Gospel Star, Dies From COVID-19
Gospel singer Troy Sneed is the latest musician to succumb to the coronavirus. Per NBC News, Sneed passed away due to complications from the illness at a hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. on Monday. The artist was just 52-years-old. Sneed began his gospel career traveling across the country with the Georgia Mass Choir where he helped…
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All the Wrong People Love Jesus Is King
Like many black folks, I grew up in a deeply religious household. That meant prayers before every meal, three church services a week on Sundays and Wednesdays, and pretending like a lot of gospel rappers weren’t fucking terrible. Thankfully, now I’m a grown-ass man who no longer attends vacation bible school or is coerced into…
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Kanye Only Wants to Make Gospel Now. But He’s at His Best When He’s Blending the Secular and the Sacred
Kanye West will come out with an album…at some point. At first, he said that his new album would drop on Sept. 27; yet, as is par for the course for Ye, the album, Jesus is King, has been delayed. The reason why is unclear; when it will be released is uncertain. But Ye has…
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Amazing Grace Is a Cinematic Blessing and a Transcendental Spiritual Experience
Aretha Franklin was a national treasure. A gift. An icon. When Aretha Franklin passed, the world unequivocally lost one of the best voices of all time. With 18 Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—why wouldn’t we genuflect when one calls on the queen’s name?…
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Why ‘Ultralight Beam’ Is the Official Song of Christians Who Love Jesus but Curse a Little
I’m not good at being a Christian … at least not the kind of Christian I was raised to be. At my home church, they take Romans 12:12 seriously, wherein Paul says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds … ” For them, that meant there…