Gospel Music News-Marvin Sapp, Mahalia Jackson, CeCe Winans
1. Mahalia Jackson is viewed as a pinnacle of gospel music.~Source
Mahalia Jackson, The Queen of Gospel Music, was born in New Orleans in 1912 and moved to Chicago at an early age. She absorbed the sounds of blues singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, but it was the church to whom she pledged her allegiance. She began singing gospel in the 1920s at Chicago’s Greater Salem Baptist Church and performing with Prince Johnson Gospel Singers.
By the late 1930s she had begun recording as a solo artist, and in the early ’40s she toured with the great Thomas Dorsey. As illustrated by “Move On Up a Little Higher,” her incredible melisma and charismatic performing style influenced the young Aretha Franklin among many others. Jackson died of heart failure in 1972 at age 59. Source
2. Marvin Sapp’s blockbuster song “Never Would Have Made It”, like all great gospel music songs, comes from a place of deep sorrow and pain. The beloved song was written after the death of Marvin Sapp’s father, Henry Lewis Sapp, Jr. The song spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 in Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs and was replaced by Kirk Franklin’s “Declaration (This Is It)”.~Source, Squidoo Page
3. Good news for DirectTV subscribers! The Gospel Music Channel and DirectTV announced today that beginning March 19, that GMC will be available to DirectTV customers nationally on channel 338 beginning March 19th.~Source
4. The Gospel Music Channel has a Q&A with CeCe Winans about her upcoming album, Thy Kingdom Come, which releases on March 28, 2008.~CeCe Winans
“The secret to my longevity is my relationship with God. My desire is that I’m in the center of His will – whether that’s making records, whether that’s teaching or speaking, whether that’s at home with my children – I just want to be in the center of His will.”-CeCe Winans
5. Paula White’s Life By Design Conference will be held March 13-15th in Tampa, FL. Participitants include Bishop T.D. Jakes, Bishop Noel Jones, Pastor Darlene Bishop, and CeCe Winans.~Life By Design
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