“I’ll Fly Away” was written in 1929 by the late Albert C. Brumley while he was picking cotton. Brumley said he was dreaming of flying away from the cotton field when he penned the song. The songwriter ...

DALTON, Ga. | Deed Robbs was diagnosed with prostate cancer and was told he only had weeks to live. That was eight years ago. “I'm still here,” Robbs said. The gospel song “Nobody But You, Lord” has ...

This year, as part of our range of citywide experiences celebrating 25 years of ESSENCE Fest moving the culture forward, we’ll be celebrating 25 years of Black women in Gospel music. It’s no secret ...

VaShawn Mitchell is best known for his corporate worship hit “Nobody Greater” that literally took the religious community by storm, making it the most played Gospel song of 2011. Because of the ...

"I couldn't be more grateful," Bowman tells Billboard. By Jim Asker Tim Bowman Jr. banks his third chart-topper on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, and backing choir Faith City Music adds its second ...

Gospel-punk. As a genre, it didn't exactly have legs: I only know of one gospel-punk album, in fact: the self-titled 1987 album by the Mercy Seat (I'm not counting Christian-themed emo music, which ...

President Joe Biden and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton each quoted from a famous gospel song, at events held 17 years apart. Biden has quoted from the song at least four times since 2020.

For 50 years, Pastor T.L. Barrett has delivered his sermons and gospel songs to his congregation in Chicago, but his musical impact has spread much farther. A sample of Barrett’s 1976 song “Father ...