GOSPEL’s hour 4 explores how gospel and preaching achieved platinum-selling success. GOSPEL’s hour 4 opens in the 1990s, when a new generation of music producers, record executives and artists ...

At virtually every one of her concerts, Whitney Houston always included at least one gospel song on the set list. It was a tribute not only to her upbringing, singing with her mom, Cissy, at New Hope ...

FILE - Singer Whitney Houston performs at the pre-Grammy gala & salute to industry icons with Clive Davis honoring David Geffen in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2011. A new posthumous gospel ...

In the 1990s, a new crop of young musical directors revolutionized gospel music by fusing the traditional large choir sound with elements of hip hop and R&B. Donald Lawrence emerged from that period.

Kim English, whose melismatic vocals and spiritual perspective anchored more than a dozen house-music hits that reverberated in dance clubs beginning in the 1990s, died on Tuesday in Chicago. She was ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was Youth Night at the NAACP convention, and the hall was rocking to the sounds of gospel music. Thousands were on their feet, raising their hands to the heavens and praising the ...