Former front man of the Gospel group Commissioned, Marvin Sapp calls himself a preacher who sings. First and foremost, Sapp is a pastor who preaches twice a week for the last 25 years as the senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church. As secondary calling, Sapp also sings for the Lord.
moreWith her recent faux pas of blowing up her husband's car at the discovery of his infidelity and their ensuing dramatic makeup over their own reality TV, Tina Campbell has a way of securing the jobs of gossip columnists. And seizing the heightened cusp of her personal debacle, Campbell has dropped her own autobiography and her debut solo record "It's Personal."
moreOak Ridge Boys doesn't have an expiration date. Normally after an artists has had outrun his or her shelf life on the charts, it's a challenge for them to continue churning out fresh and invigorating records. Often these artists will either resign to re-cutting their hits of former glory or they just become content to retire at Branson as a live act. Not the Oak Ridge Boys.
moreImpeccable is certain an understatement when it comes to the Childress Family's latest project. Thanks to producers Teresa Childress Lutz and Carla Childress, the production of this disc stands toe to toe with any major label project out there. Never stymied with just one style, here you will hear the traditional full-bodied harmony sounds, danceable country waltzes, zestful worship songs that will get your feet moving, and the mesmerizing allure of carefully crafted story songs that get us listening at the edge of our seats.
moreThe best songs often come from a tortured soul. Brothers Corey Parnell and Casey Parnell had been singing together since they were teenagers. However, due to a turbulent swirl of unfortunate events, the brothers found their van stuck in the sand in a remote beach in Mexico. As they were in the mire of disappointments, ready to call it quits, God used the words of a little boy named Elliot to encourage them. As a result, Elliot the band was born.
moreHillsong UNITED is arguably one of the most innovative Christian bands out there. In an unprecedented move to introduce their new album "Empires," the Aussie church team revealed their album cover 95,000 feet from space. And with a titular as recherché as "Empires," this new album is promised to be earth shattering.
moreProcrastination has met its nemesis with Lonnie Hunter's Tyscot Records (Casey J, Rance Allen Group) release #GETITDONE. This brand new live recording isn't just your average worship record. Rather, this is an album of songs with messages that points both vertically and horizontally.
moreIzzi Ray isn't into conveyor belt cookie cutter CCM. "Much of You" is an album free of plagiarism. On these 10 tracks, you won't find predictable melodic developments or borrowed hooks or those clichéd love-song-cum-worship lyrics that pervade so much of what we hear on Christian radio.
morePlanetshakers have always taken their titular seriously. In less than two decades, they have had literally shaken the international worship scene with their brand of seismic rock-centric worship flourished with lots frenetic synth swirls and heavy-handed guitar wiggles.
morePlumb can never be constrained. Way back in the 90s, Plumb made inroads into the secular pop/rock genre by opening up a new discourse of spirituality that pervades till this day.
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