Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics ... A now-bygone Houston gospel quartet, the Echoes of Zion, was singing in an old storefront-turned-church in his ...

Mrs. Hicks, 70, said she is a big fan of Gospel music, and started singing in church when she was 12 years old. This whole endeavor ... reminded of when he sings hymns and Southern Gospel songs.

In the late 19th Century a new style of hymnody known as “gospel” emerged. These songs were usually ... seen an explosion of new hymn writers and approaches. Old texts have been refreshed ...

For example, one of Cat Stevens’ songs is a rewrite of a Christian hymn ... Stevens once became so old-fashioned that he covered “Morning Has Broken,” a hymn from the 1930s.