Her music earned her four Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association and two Grammy nominations.
Despite several chances to perform on the secular stage, Shea largely stuck with gospel music.
The Mississippi label is a storehouse of soul, rhythm and blues and gospel music.
Like many jazz musicians, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim grew up listening to gospel music.
The brothers grew up singing in Detroit church choirs before they met gospel music great Andrae Crouch.
Ronald Winans was a member of one of the most prominent groups in gospel music: The Winans.
Ms. CLARK-SHEARD: I'm excited, for one, is that gospel music is being accepted in the secular world.
Singing gospel music and playing piano, drums and guitar served as an emotional outlet for the young Brown.
When you walked on the stage for the first time, and I mean the stage of gospel music...
Thanks to a joint government-citizen partnership, this land will now become the location of a Gospel music festival.
As a church, it became a cornerstone of Chicago's black community and the place where gospel music became an institution.
It was in the church's immense sanctuary that Thomas A. Dorsey, often called the "Father of Gospel Music, " perfected his craft.
The two would become one of the most popular duos in gospel music throughout the 1940s, and recorded several hit sides with Decca.
But to know today what gospel music has done for my life and just for the world, in general, I never could have imagined it.
Andrae, you've been in the fore of gospel music for a long time, and in that, beyond just being in it for four decades now.
During an interview with NPR in 2000, Taylor said she and her five siblings would sing gospel music on Sundays, but on Mondays it was the blues.
Watson, who jumped onto the music scene in the early 1960s, is considered influential among folk musicians for his brand of bluegrass, blues, country and gospel music.
Chanticleer, an all-male a capella group best known for its classical repertoire, has released How Sweet the Sound, its second CD of gospel music and African-American spirituals.
And I did it just because I loved to sing, and I loved gospel music, and I loved God with all my heart, even at a young age.
The motorcycle, fitted with a radio, is screeching gospel music.
Then, congratulating themselves on their bravery, they file inside to hear some fine gospel music and the Reverend Calvin Butts preaching against Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and all his works.
With hard times in mind, she put a dancing shoe in the window along with a CD of gospel music for good luck and to tell onlookers something about herself.
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Working with generations of gospel singers, Dorsey turned the city into the focal point of gospel music, and his blues-tinged hymns became classics, recorded by gospel greats like Mahalia Jackson.
But because of budget cuts, the previously autonomous Celtic Fest (29 June), Gospel Music Festival (26 June), Latin Music Festival (24 June) and Country Music Festival (1 July) will join the Taste this year.
It's a great, great CD, and as I said, if you want to experience what an African-American church can be in its best sense with gospel music, here's a fun way to do it.
Williams recorded both secular and gospel music, but in 1970 he committed to working solely with artists from the Church of the Living God in Toledo, Ohio, where he himself learned how to play pedal steel guitar.
Travis, who has sold more than 20 million records, has won seven Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music statuettes, 10 American Music Awards, seven Music City News awards, five Country Music Association honors and eight Dove Awards from the Gospel Music Association, according to his website.
You know, I grew up in North Carolina, mostly, and there was a lot of gospel music, there was country music and there was a good deal of blues and I sort of got into music at the time of folk music, which, you know, sort of people refer to as the Great Folk Scare of the early '60s.
In the past, Oldham has released music with distorted chords and jagged variations on old gospel and blues music.
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