American Idol contestant Hannah Harper s rendition of a traditional American gospel song brought her from singing to ...

Catholic African American music icons Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte helped usher in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. (Photo: Digital Collections, The New York Public Library) While gospel ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (RNS) — Thousands of fans of gospel music giant Richard Smallwood bid him farewell in a music-filled funeral on Saturday (Jan. 24), as family and friends of the composer ...

He sold millions of albums with the Richard Smallwood Singers, and his songs, many influenced by classical music, were recorded by stars like Whitney Houston. By Clay Risen Richard Smallwood, a ...

Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated gospel singer whose music has been covered by Destiny’s Child and Whitney Houston, has died. He was 77. A rep for Smallwood confirmed to Variety that he died of ...

Richard Smallwood, a revered singer and songwriter who scored a dozen Top 10 albums and four No. 1s on the Billboard gospel chart and amassed eight Grammy nominations during his long career, died ...

Richard Smallwood, the legendary gospel composer and worship leader whose music shaped generations of churchgoing Black folks — and crossed into mainstream culture through voices like Whitney Houston ...

The “Ihlabekisa” hit-maker and multi-award-winning gospel musician, Sfiso Shongwe, also known as Sfiso S, bagged the song of the year award at the 12th annual Mpumalanga Gospel Music Awards on Sunday, ...

Created in partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara, the archive includes many pioneering Georgia musicians. In 2003, Dust-to-Digital, an Atlanta-based record label founded a few ...

The Bible is often seen as a fixed text that has remained largely unchanged for generations, but it was not always so. There are 66 books in the modern Bible, across the Old and New Testaments, but ...