Turn on almost any major pop or R&B record from the last seventy years and you'll likely hear it without realizing: the ornamental vocal runs, the call-and-response phrasing, the way a singer seems to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's always a kerfuffle when gospel artists cross over to secular music, but Sapp's new EP arrives under special circumstances.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, ...

Sometimes, we’re blessed with talents that feel like they were sent directly from God—the kind of gifts that don’t need to be forced because greatness just lives in them naturally. What makes it hurt ...

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Before crossing over into the more commercial “contemporary” sound of keyboards, synths, and the bass-and-drum pop of the 1980s with the likes of Stephanie Mills, Debarge, and Al B. Sure, 1970s R&B ...

Gospel music is a genre related to (and sometimes overlapping with) country, R&B, and even rock and roll, but its distinguishing characteristic is the intrinsic centrality of Christianity. In modern ...