DETROIT – The third annual Gospel & Soul event, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 17. This year's event, which will once again be co-chaired and co-hosted by ...

Aretha Franklin, a singer who began her career with gospel music and was later crowned the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday after battling a range of health issues. Often simply called “Aretha,” ...

Elizabeth King had already clocked in her share of studio time and performances over the past 50 years—first leading the all-male gospel troupe, The Gospel Souls, since 1969 and into the ’70s, and ...

In 1972, the famous Memphis soul label Stax Records created a gospel music subsidiary named The Gospel Truth. Over the next three years, the new label would release dozens of singles and albums that ...

Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...

Snoop Dogg got his first No. 1 on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart this week with his latest album -- his first in the gospel genre. Billboard reported that "Snoop Dog Presents: Bible of Love" ...

It may have been Saturday morning at New Orleans Jazz Fest, but it was time for church in the Gospel Tent. Brett Duke/The Times-PicayuneZack Landry sings as the New Orleans Gospel Soul Children ...

Drawing on the songs and sound of '70s sacred soul and gospel label D-Vine Spirituals Records, for which she recorded, Elizabeth King is releasing a new album, I Got a Love, out June 24 on Bible & ...

For nearly 40 years, the Rev. Huston Crayton Jr. has been leading Sunday services at the Lincoln Congregational Church in Brockton. His sister Joyce directs the choir. “I make sure all my songs have a ...

(RNS) — Aretha Franklin, a singer who began her career with gospel music and was later crowned the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday (Aug. 16) after battling a range of health issues. She was 76. Often ...

YPSILANTI, MI -- “Remove all the doubts, cause the sun to shine and give peace of mind,” sang the Rev. Tracey McMullan, pastor of Ypsilanti’s Restoration Worship Center. The Sunday, June 19 Worship ...