The gospel anthem, heavy with a R&B/neo-soul arrangement, was written and produced by Gary Hines, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. It reached the top three on Billboard’s Hot R&B Singles chart, and was even ...

There’s always a kerfuffle when gospel artists cross over to secular music, but Sapp’s new EP arrives under special circumstances. First, people have been wondering what Sapp would sound like on an ...

On Sunday (March 5), LaTocha Scott of Xscape released “Stay With Me,” the lead single from her new gospel album, The Invitation: A Conversation With God, under her solo deal with Motown Gospel.

It’s not a foreign concept for gospel artists to turn secular in music, but it definitely garners attention when a bishop takes the helm. Fort Worth’s Marvin Sapp has gone R&B – temporarily – with a ...

Emily Bass and the Near Miracle perform original rock-soul-gospel-R&B music Emily Bass and the Near Miracle perform their unique brand of original rock-soul-gospel-R&B music written by their dynamic ...

*As Keith Mitchell releases “He’s Alive,” his rousing, praise-filled gospel-fired soul debut single as a solo artist, the veteran R&B singer imparts a fascinating, little-known truth about where his ...

Ed Gordon talks with gospel and R&B singer Ann Nesby about her new church-inspired album, Ann Nesby In the Spirit. Nesby is also the former head of the choir group Sounds of Blackness. Ann Nesby ...

Gospel and R&B singer BeBe Winans will perform at the Apollo Theatre Dec 2. Backed by Donald Lawrence & Company, the six-time Grammy Award winner will record a live album during the concert at the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gospel and R&B singer James Phelps, who performed with soul greats including Lou Rawls and Sam Cooke, has died in Los Angeles. He was 78. Elder Lee M. Harris, who co-wrote an ...

A new museum two decades in the making is telling the story of black musical genres through the lens of American history. The National Museum of African American Music, which opened with a virtual ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) James Phelps, a gospel and R&B singer who performed with Lou Rawls and Sam Cooke, died here on Tuesday. He was 78. The apparent cause was complications of diabetes, said Elder Lee M.