FORT WORTH, Texas — Gospel legend and Fort Worth native Kirk Franklin will receive the Black Music Icon Award next week ahead of the 2025 Grammys. Franklin will receive the award, which celebrates ...

On some of the old records’ B-sides, there are examples of overt political messages, like gathering locations for the Civil Rights Movement. “For us in the Black community, gospel music is a ...

Performances kick off at 8 a.m. daily and go into the evening Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, Gaiser Student Center, 1933 ...

Reflecting on a transformative residency program, the jazz vocalist now nominated for her first Grammy Award says her album ...

at Manchester High School in the parish. Under the theme ‘Honouring the past, Embracing the present, Reshaping the future’, the event showcased the transformative power of gospel music while ...

In 2006, the William Penn Senior High School ... popular music of the day. “I didn’t know how much we were appreciated by people,” he told the interviewer. “I was 20 years old.” ...

At just 15 years old, she burst onto the music scene with her debut album ... She moved effortlessly across genres, from gospel to kwaito and Afro-pop, leaving an indelible mark with each ...

At 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, “Our American Roots” will present the amazing Amythyst Kiah, a woman who defines American roots music in this fifth century of the American Experience, to the Oak Ridge ...

The Canadian virtuoso, known for his solo on “Chest Fever,” gave the group a “sound twice as big” and his mates music lessons ... with the razzle-dazzle of gospel, Hudson cultivated ...

He is an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and SAG Award nominee for his work onstage, on screen and in music. Lewis is a founding member of Black Theatre United. In other news, the Old Greenwich Association ...