Gospel music

FILE - A carving on Stone Mountain honoring Confederate generals is shown on Monday, May 24, 2021, in Stone Mountain, Ga. Civil rights groups are blasting a concert series with Black performers dubbed “Soul Fest” at a Georgia park with a giant carving of Confederate leaders. Stone Mountain Park just outside Atlanta is where the Ku Klux Klan marked its rebirth in 1915. Its colossal, mountainside sculpture of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson is the largest Confederate monument ever crafted. AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Civil rights groups condemn ‘Soul Fest’ concerts at Georgia park with giant Confederate carving

Civil rights groups are criticizing a concert series with Black performers dubbed “Soul Fest” that is being held at a Georgia park with a giant carving of Confederate leaders.

FILE - Singer Whitney Houston performs at the pre-Grammy gala & salute to industry icons with Clive Davis honoring David Geffen in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2011. A new posthumous gospel album “I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston” was released on March 24. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Whitney Houston’s family wants to highlight her gospel roots

Historically Black TSU hopes for Grammy with gospel album

FILE - CeCe Winans performs during the Dove Awards on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. The 52nd annual Dove Awards are planned for Oct. 19 in Nashville, Tennessee, where the leading voices in gospel and worship music will be honored. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)

Elevation Worship, Cece Winans land Dove Award nominations

Hezekiah Walker poses for a portrait on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The multi-Grammy winner was tapped to lead the Hezekiah Walker Center of Gospel Music at the Historically Black College and University based in Richmond, Va. It’s being dubbed as the first academic center focused on gospel music at an HBCU where students can learn the cultural and business aspects of genre and the industry. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Hezekiah Walker looks to bring gospel music center to HBCU

Jazz Fest’s Saturday opening delayed by weather

The gates opened about an hour later than usual for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival after a line of strong thunderstorms, with wind gusts of up to 60 mph (about 97 kph), prompted organizers to delay Saturday’s opening.

Christopher Lynch, music historian with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a piece of sheet music written by Charles Henry Pace, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Lynch and the university are coordinating a project to recognize the pivotal role Pace played in gospel music as an early pioneer of the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives

For over 20 years, the work of gospel music composer Charles Henry Pace sat in 14 unorganized crates, dirty and decomposing.

Director of Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers has died

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul T. Kwami, who served as musical director of the Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers for nearly 30 years, has died, Fisk University said in a statement.

Gospel singer Lee Williams of The Spiritual QC’s dies at 75

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) —

Gospel music artist Lee Williams, the leader and founder of the award-winning Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s, has died. He was 75.

FILE - Carrie Underwood attends the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington on Dec. 8, 2019. Underwood released her first album of gospel music called “My Savior,” on Friday, March 26. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

Carrie Underwood’s faith shines through on church hymns

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Don’t get her wrong, Carrie Underwood loves to sing about getting revenge on the cheating ex and belting out ballads on award show stages in dazzling gowns.

FILE - Joel Smallbone, right, and Luke Smallbone of For King and Country appear at the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 11, 2016. The brother duo earned their first artist of the year award at the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards, which aired on Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Wade Payne/Invision/AP, File)

Dove Awards name for KING & COUNTRY top artist

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brother duo for KING & Country earned their first artist of the year award at the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards, which aired on Friday without an audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zach Williams, for King & Country, Kanye West get Dove nods

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christian artist Zach Williams and for King & Country are the leading artist nominees at this year’s Dove Awards, while rapper Kanye West and singer Gloria Gaynor earned their first ever nominations.

FILE - In this June 5, 1989, file photo, The Statler Brothers, from left, Harold Reid, Don Reid, Phil Balsley and Jimmy Fortune, perform at the 23rd annual Music City News Country Awards show in Nashville, Tenn. Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group The Statler Brothers, died Friday, April 24, 2020, after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Harold Reid, Statler Brothers bass singer, dies at 80

STAUNTON, Va. (AP) — Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group the Statler Brothers, has died after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80.

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 1983, file photo, Dallas Cowboys safety Dextor Clinkscale (47) is upended by Tampa Bay Buccaneers offensive tackle Dave Reavis after his interception and 11-yard return during the first quarter of an NFL football playoff game in Irving, Texas. Clinkscale is one of 60 singers--all former NFL players and a couple of current ones--who will participate in the 20th Super Bowl Gospel Celebration at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Thursday night. The choir is set to perform two songs at the sold-out event that’s being televised Saturday. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

Choir combines NFL players’ love of gospel music, football

ATLANTA (AP) — Retired Dallas Cowboys safety Dextor Clinkscale gets a chance each year to re-experience the camaraderie of playing in the NFL when the Super Bowl Gospel Choir convenes to perform in the city hosting the league’s marquee game.

Gospel star Edwin Hawkins, known for ‘Oh Happy Day,’ dies

NEW YORK (AP) — Edwin Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit “Oh Happy Day” and as a major force for contemporary inspirational music, died Monday at age 74.