Gospel songs continued to evolve and inspire throughout 2024, bringing together traditional spiritual elements with contemporary sounds. These songs offered comfort, hope, and spiritual guidance ...

Gospel, Soul, Rock And Blues Artist Coming To W&L. Bette Smith ‘Puts Soul Back Into Fashion’ Bette Smith, a well-known ...

In 1970, the world was introduced to Queen, featuring the talents of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon. Since then, the band's music has remained relevant across generations, ...

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In this episode we give props and respect to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a groundbreaking musician and Jesus follower who merged gospel and rock music. In a time when the deck was stacked against her, ...

When Chrisean Rock said those words in a viral video shared in early 2025, the internet paused. This was the same Chrisean who brawled on camera, went live while being arrested, and had toxic ...

The enduring popularity of Christian rock is hardly news: for years now, churches in the U.S. and elsewhere have been attracting worshippers with music performed in all kinds of non-liturgical forms, ...

Inspired in part by a book she published last year, the singer and songwriter reveals more of herself on “Tasha,” an album blending gospel and pop. By Robert M. Marovich “Tasha,” the new album from ...

WASHINGTON — Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer, songwriter and pianist whose music became a cornerstone ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...