Dressed in vibrant costumes, the Soweto Gospel Choir blends the rich sounds of traditional African music with dance and a variety of musical genres — rock and hip-hop, and American gospel and R&B — ...

The ensemble's music has been featured on Grammy-winning recordings.

Walk into the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton as service begins, and the very first sound you’ll hear is music. “We welcome you,” the five women of the Joyful Praise choir sang on a recent rainy ...

Gospel songs continued to evolve and inspire throughout 2024, bringing together traditional spiritual elements with contemporary sounds. These songs offered comfort, hope, and spiritual guidance ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

Kirk Franklin and God’s Property’s “Stomp,” and Kanye’s “Ultralight Beam” are two sides of the same coin. Elements of Black American gospel music have long been used outside of the church’s four walls ...

Singers from 19 South Florida churches under the direction of four Miami choirmasters will raise their voices as a single community choir for GospelFest 2024. On Sunday, April 21, GospelFest at the ...

ST. LOUIS – The Community Gospel Choir is hosting the Gospel Roots Concert on Sunday, Feb. 23, at Friendly Temple in Black Jack, celebrating Black history through gospel music. The 60-voice ensemble ...

ST. LOUIS (RNS) — In St. Louis, a diverse gospel choir tries to build racial harmony through a love of music. ST. LOUIS (RNS) — Emi Belciak teaches third grade in a tough part of suburban St. Louis, ...

As Millennium Gospel Choir members rocked and swayed at a Sunday afternoon rehearsal at St. Paul AME Church, in Cambridge, music director Donnell Patterson walked among them, clapping out the beat.

"People keep telling us that they were crying," Celia Osuagwu, a member of the gospel choir that performed at the royal wedding, told me just days after singing at the union of Prince Harry and Meghan ...