Gospel

It’s been six years since Justin Timberlake released his last album, Man of the Woods, which sold 422,000 copies stateside — his first album not to crack a million. To promote the release of his sixth studio album, Everything I Thought I Was, out March 15 on RCA Records, the former boy bander served as the musical guest on tonight’s Saturday Night Live in support of his Social Network co-star Dakota Johnson. After popping up during Johnson’s monologue and joining his sketch-comedy partner in crime, Jimmy Fallon,…

The month of February is a time to remember and reflect on the history of the Black experience in the United States. However you prefer to honor this legacy, from educational events to festive celebrations, concerts, performances and parties, there’s no shortage of ways to do Black History Month around the Bay. Black History Month at MoAD: Throughout February, Museum of the African Disapora, 685 Mission St., San Francisco. MoAD will honor Black History Month with a full month of programs and events celebrating Black…

Brazilian gospel singer dies during a live performance, leaving his concertgoers in shock. The gospel music world is left grappling with the aftereffects of losing a talent like Pedro Henrique. Pedro Henrique was in the middle of singing his hit song ‘Vai Ser Tão Lindo’ at a religious event that was published online from the concert hall in Feira de Santana, a city in northeastern Brazil. The video of the unfortunate moment showed Pedro engaging with the audience at the front of the stage before he…

Bishop Carlton Pearson, a renowned preacher, singer and composer, known for his Live At Azusa albums, died on November 19 after a battle with cancer in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  His theology, known as the “gospel of inclusion,” preached against homophobia and embraced the LGBTQ community, but cost him his congregation and approval within the evangelical community. However, his message of inclusion and his denial of hell has become a model, and his impact in gospel music continues to inspire new generations of artists.…

There’s busking, and then there’s air-busking. Gospel singer Bobbi Storm has gone viral for the latter.Storm’s failure to stop singing aboard a Delta Airlines aircraft last Friday was met with a lot of turbulence over the weekend. The Maverick City Music singer defied repeated instructions to “be quiet” before the flight took off and is facing criticism for her decision.The singer, who announced to the passengers on the Friday flight that she had just been nominated for two Grammy Awards, said she just wanted to share…

Sean Dickson, vocals, guitar, arrangementThe early Soup Dragons were a psychedelic punk rock band, but by 1988 there was more energy in the underground acid house scene than the indie scene. We used to go to this club in Glasgow called UFO that looked like the 1960s party place in Midnight Cowboy. It was all oil lamps and psychedelic lighting, but they played Detroit techno.Mother Universe, our more electronic single, started getting played in these clubs, so one of the promoters asked us to do a “PA”, a mimed…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A pyromaniac is someone unhealthily obsessed with the destructive power of fire. Melinda Adams instead is pulled toward the term pyromantic—a lover of "good fire" for the benefits it can bring to people, communities and the environment as a whole. The Langston Hughes Assistant Professor in Indigenous…

This Ghanaian troupe owe a debt to their local market place in Bolgatanga, which was blasting their 2014 hit Mam Yinne Wa just as producer Max Weissenfeldt alighted from the bus station for a visit. The Berlin scene-maker had fallen in love with vintage Ghanaian highlife music a few years earlier, and after several visits to the hotspots of Accra and Kumasi had decided to check out Ghana’s northern savannah lands, home of the Frafra people. Having found the creator the song – gospel singer Alogte Oho – Weissenfeldt was…

When music executive Steven Abdul Khan Brown was making his way to the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, he was blown away by the beautiful sound he heard as he walked closer to the parish. One of those voices? A teenage Whitney Houston. “That’s scary — whoa,” he thought, recalling the moment more than 40 years later in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Why haven’t I ever been here before?” Khan Brown, also a Newark native who had been working with Kool & the Gang…

The late Whitney Houston will be celebrated with the release of gospel collection ‘I Go To The Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston’ on 24th March 2023.Available via Arista/Legacy Recordings in cooperation with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston) and available to pre-order now, the album includes exhilarating versions of cherished gospel evergreens including ‘Jesus Loves Me’ and ‘His Eye Is on the Sparrow’.The album will also unveil stunning unreleased tracks such as ‘He Can Use Me’, an awe-inspiring live version of…