Gospel & Entertainment

Whitney Houston

When you are WHITNEY HOUSTON you can “spin the bin for win” and still chart after you’ve gone on. New music as well as some past hits are featured on this project “I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston” chronicles the singer’s journey from the junior choir to singing hymns in major motion pictures and large arenas. This fourteen-track album went straight to the TOP of Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums charts. This is her second round at the top of Gospel Album charts since 1996, when The Preacher’s Wife motion picture soundtrack hit No. 1 and dominated the list for an entire half-year. You are in for a treat; this album contains 6 never-before-released recordings among the album’s incandescent selections. There are three rare studio performances including the 1981 “He Can Use Me,” which gives us the seventeen-year-old Whitney Houston. On the track, also available as a lyric video, Whitney drives home the life-affirming decision of discipleship with gut-wrenching shouts and flowering flights of falsetto. In this performance, you hear both Whitney, who sang congregants happy at New Hope, and the emerging Pop Star, it makes you love her even more. Resting Queen emerges musically!

The Hawkins Family

The 8th Black Honors Celebration is taking place this month and they will be honoring gospel legends, such as The Hawkins Family, a much-deserved honor. So much timeless music has come from this amazing music family, their music will sing forever literally, they set the bar for the excellence of gospel music; foundational in its sound musically and has almost been one of the templates for gospel that it’s drawn from. The taping will take place in Atlanta at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on May 19, hosted by LeToya Luckett and DeRay Davis.

Anthony Brown

Anthony Brown & Group Therapy has dropped new music, our home grown never ceases to deliver good music. The single “We Speak Your Name” is currently available at all digital media outlets. I have been waiting for new music from them and can’t wait til the album drops! Go support good gospel music!

VaShawn Mitchell

VaShawn just released the music video for his single “See the Goodness” featuring Donnie McClurkin, this song is so good yall! I absolutely love it so much. VaShawn & Uncle Donnie are in the flow it’s magical. Shout out to DMV’s own Stems music on the BGV’s I see you! Keep reppin us globally!

Melvin Crispell lll

Sunday’s Best Winner Melvin Crispell III has released a new single, and I’m loving it, he took a James Cleveland classic “God Is” and gave it a quartet country twang and I love what he’s done with it, it’s available right now and so is the official music video, and I think you’ll love them both! Go grab it!

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