Rarely has a more unnecessary question been posed. “Did you come to praise him?” choir director James R. Smith asks, his slim, twitchy body coiled between the singers behind him and the crowd before ...

As the founder and director of the Tulare-Kings Counties Mass Choir, gospel music has been a big part of Charles Parker's life. The College of the Sequoias English instructor spends a good chunk of ...

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It's the first No. 1 for the choir, which formed in 1988. By Jim Asker The Mississippi Mass Choir’s “The Promise,” featuring Stan Jones and Myron Butler, bounds from No. 5 to No. 1 on Billboard’s ...

Thirty years ago, Robert Ray sat down to write Gospel Mass, an experimental work, for a one-time performance. To his surprise, the piece caught on and became a seminal work of African-American music, ...

Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993, is considered the father of black gospel. The Chicago native wrote beloved tunes including “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” and in 1932 created a national gospel choir ...

Jeffrey Brown chronicles the competition in the "How Sweet the Sound" contest to find the best church choir in America. And finally tonight: the sound and the spirit of gospel in an unlikely arena. It ...

Former lead vocalist of the Mississippi Mass Choir, Mosie Burks, passed away recently. We have a remembrance of the gospel singer. The Mississippi Mass Choir, a prolific Grammy-nominated gospel chorus ...

Singers from 19 South Florida churches under the direction of four Miami choirmasters will raise their voices as a single community choir for GospelFest 2024. On Sunday, April 21, GospelFest at the ...