You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, ...
Kierra Sheard came from a musical family. Her mother, Karen Sheard, and three aunts were part of the Grammy Award winning gospel girl group the Clark Sisters. At nine years old, she secured the Best ...
As the sun begins to set on a Thursday evening in Salisbury, the Veney Gospel Singers start to warm up for an evening of rehearsals. As the music kicks off, the singers get into formation and begin to ...
Don Cornelius, second from right, and the Staple Singers, in a 1974 publicity photo taken on the set ofSoul Train Wikipedia For too long now, the Staple Singers haven’t received the level of respect ...
Their voices are powerful and distinct. They are 40 of the District’s youngest gospel singers who make up the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir. The Washington Performing Arts ...
Once a year or so, the popular-music business falls into a faint, and the only thing that can bring it around again is a new sound. The new sound quickly becomes every hipster’s new groove and ...
Gospel singers from far and near and the Big Sandy Superstore in South Point are teaming up to provide relief for victims of the flooding that ravaged much of West Virginia on June 23-24. Southern ...