Date Announced For 2010 Dove Awards
Gospel Music’s Dove Awards To Be Held April 2010
The 41st Annual GMA Dove Awards will be held on Wednesday, April 2010.
I guess that means that in spite of rumors of the closing of the GMA, the show will go on. The Dove Awards recognizes the best in Christian and Gospel music. The pre-sale tickets should be available soon.
Started in 1969, the GMA Dove Awards is the “Biggest Night In Gospel Music”, and the longest running and most prestigious televised awards ceremony recognizing achievement in all genres of Christian and Gospel music.
At the 2009 awards show Steven Curtis Chapman won Artist and Songwriter of The Year, Kirk Franklin won a trophy for his CD Fight of My Life, and Martha Munizzi won one for Contemporary Gospel Album.
Check out Kierra Sheard & Mary Mary’s performance at the show on the video below. Mary Mary performed the popular gospel song “Get Up” for which they won an award for Urban Recorded Song. Kierra’s intro on this video is fiya!!
Tina of Mary Mary Says “What’s Wrong With Sexy??”
Gospel music artists Mary Mary went from being forbidden to listen to anything other than gospel music to heavily impacting both the secular and gospel music worlds. In an article on NPR they talk about their Pentecostal father, their early upbringing, and their influence on gospel music and R&B. The sisters also weigh in on their “not tight, just form-fitting” dresses on the front of The Sound CD and their hubbies.
On the cover of The Sound, the Campbells aren’t adorned in choir robes; they’re confidently wearing sexy black dresses. Tina argues that the dresses aren’t tight, just form-fitting.
“Sometimes, people think we’re a little bit sexy. I don’t have a problem with that,” she says. “I would like to think that I’m sexy. I have a husband who I would like to think that every time he sees me. Truth be known, I’m a woman. I would love to be appealing to men. It is not my endeavor [to] entice, to cause anyone to lust.”
I hope my hubby thinks I’m sexy too. But, some ladies take it too far. They dress waaay past sexy.
I heart Mary Mary. Those gospel music girls like to keep it real.
Mary Mary Anounces Dates for Spring Tour
Gospel Music Artists Mary Mary Announce Dates for Spring Tour
The chart-topping gospel music duo Mary Mary have announced dates for a North American spring club tour. The tour will begin April 8th in Annapolis and end April 29th in Sacramento. (Tour dates & cities listed below.)
The Mary Mary 2009 spring club tour will mark their first live show since the beautiful gospel music singers took home this year’s Best Gospel Performance Grammy for “Get Up,” one of the key tracks on the #1 Gospel album, The Sound.
“Get Up,” the Grammy-winning lead single from The Sound, garnered massive crossover radio play on Urban, Urban Adult Contemporary, Rhythmic, Gospel and Dance radio formats while charting in a number of formats including #5 Hot Gospel Songs, #12 Hot Adult R&B Airplay, #32 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, #4 Hot Dance Club Play, and #6 Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. “That song embodies what the whole album is about,” says Mary Mary’s Erica Campbell. “It asks people, ‘Why are you waiting? Why do you care what other people think?’ It reminds us that your beginning can be whenever you want it to be.”
Beyond the music, Mary Mary recently started the Paint A Smile foundation and have launched BE U, a bath, body and candle line designed to inspire young women to celebrate their natural beauty and inner uniqueness through four basic principles : be honest, be beautiful, be intentional, be you. To further expand the BE U brand, Mary Mary have inked a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster to pen a devotional collection of inspirational stories, anecdotes and helpful hints. Read more
