Former Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines died on Friday. Services were held Sunday Gaines, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and former pastor of Gardendale’s First ...

Although he wasn’t blind, he sang in three different gospel groups known as the Blind Boys before making a splash on the R&B ...

President Dallin H. Oaks, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has taught that “the singing of hymns is one of the best ways to learn the doctrine of the restored gospel.” ...

Uptown is getting a national hallelujah. Charlotte will host the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, city officials and award organizers announced today at the Charlotte Convention Center. The long-running, ...

Augie Meyers, the Texas musician whose organ playing defined the sounds of the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, as well as the Tex-Mex genre itself, died Saturday. He was 85. Meyers’ family ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Sylvia Rose Novak, a singer, songwriter and producer based in Nashville, is coming to Birmingham in April. This show comes ahead of her sixth studio album. Novak is ...

Not yet 30, vibraphonist and composer Joel Ross has delivered has fifth Blue Note album, the 2-LP set, Gospel Music. The music remains intricate but less so than his previous efforts. Ross sets a very ...

Gospel music evolved from antebellum spirituals into a distinct genre in 1920s Chicago, serving as both a "weapon of worship" and a foundation for modern R&B and Rock 'n Roll. Teens arrested after ...

DEFENSE IS TO SLOW DOWN, ASK QUESTIONS, AND NEVER ACT ON IMPULSE. A LOCAL AUTHOR AND MUSICIAN IS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH MUSIC ONE. NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR. THE MARY PAXTON STUDY CLASS ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Colón, the Grammy-nominated architect of urban salsa music and social activist, died Saturday. He was 75. Over his decades-long career, the trombonist, composer, arranger and ...