He Will Remember Me

LeAndria Johnson Gives God The Glory

      LeAndria Johnson Gives God The Glory

Gospel recording artist Le’Andria Johnson has taken the gospel music scene by storm since being crowned the season three winner of BET’s Sunday Best in 2010. Her debut CD, The Awakening of Le’Andria Johnson, entered at #1 on multiple music charts, including both the Billboard Top Gospel Albums and the Top Christian/Gospel Albums charts. The CD also debuted at #1 on the Christian Music Trade Association’s Current Gospel Overall chart.



Le’Andria Johnson (born January 23, 1983) in Palatka, Florida, to Bishop Gregory Johnson and First Lady and Pastor Sharon Johnson .She is one of two daughters (Le'Andria and Tamara) and three sons (Gregory Jr., Terrence, and Michael) all of whom can sing and play instruments. Her brother Terrence co-wrote many of her songs including “I Shall Leap", a song featured on Sunday Best.The gospel musician and singer-songwriter was the season three winner of the BET gospel singing competition show Sunday Best. She received a Grammy Award, which she won in 2012 for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance.

Le’Andria is enjoying critical acclaim and tremendous success, but for the 29-year-old, twice divorced mother of three, it has been a long and often arduous journey to the spotlight in the gospel music industry. An accomplished singer and songwriter and an anointed praise and worship leader, Le’Andria was born in Orlando, Florida and began singing and performing for her family at two years old. When she was four, the family moved to the small town of Palatka, Florida, where she lived until she returned to Orlando in 2003.

 Her father, Dr. G.A. Johnson, Sr., served as presiding Bishop of the Head Quarters (HQ) Ministries. She began singing at her father’s church at the age of six and became praise and worship leader when she was 16. Throughout her childhood and teen years, Le’Andria sang in school choruses and in community talent shows. At 17, she had her first performance before a major audience when she sang for 8,000 people at a conference sponsored by gospel legend Pastor Shirley Caesar. She also sang with gospel artists Luther Barnes, Jimmy Hicks and Voices of Integrity and the Williams Brothers, as well as at churches in Southern Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

A licensed minister, Le’Andria believes that singing is her God-given talent, but that ministry is her calling. As she ministers through music, she hopes that her songs will continue to make a difference in people’s lives.

Bishop Marvin Winans

                Bishop Marvin Winans

Marvin Lawrence Winans (born March 5, 1958) in Detroit, Michigan,the fourth of 10 children of Delores (née Ransom) and David Glenn Winans, Sr., who recorded together as "Mom and Pop Winans". His siblings David II, Carvin (his fraternal twin), Benjamin (BeBe), Daniel, Michael, Ronald, Priscilla (CeCe), Deborah (Debbie), Angelique (Angie) are also musically gifted and have careers in the music industry singing, writing and producing. Marvin met and married Vickie Bowman, to whom he was married for 16 years until their divorce in 1995. His sons, Marvin Jr. (Coconut), Josiah Winans, and stepson Mario (Skeeter) are also in the music business. Mario is a producer and R&B singer. Marvin Jr., once a member of Winans Phase 2, is now a solo artist and is also a producer, and Josiah Winans is also a producer featured on Marvin Jr.'s first solo project.

Winans sang in the 1970s with his brothers Ronald, Carvin (his twin) and Michael (the group also included others) as The Testimonial Singers. Their first performance was at a high school talent show. In 1975 the group's name was changed to The Winans. Their musical careers spanned both the 1980s and 1990s. The Winans, who were discovered by Andrae Crouch, released their first album under the new group's name, entitled Introducing The Winans, in 1981. The Winans were greatly influenced by the Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker and her group The Caravans. An organist and pianist, Marvin also wrote songs, and produced for The Winans records, for solo projects from family members, and on other gospel releases. For his vocals on the 1985 song "Bring Back the Days of Yea and Nay", Winans was awarded a Grammy for Best Male Soul Gospel Performance. He and several of his siblings and family members sang The Winans' hit "Tomorrow" at Whitney Houston's funeral.

In 2007, Winans released his first solo recording, Alone, But Not Alone.

On June 26, 2012 Winans released "Marvin L Winans Presents The Praise and Worship Experience" on his own label, MLW Productions Inc. The album features: Doen Moen, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, Mom Winans, Roderick Dixon, Bishop Paul Morton amongst others and was recorded at Winans' church in Detroit, Mi.

Pastor Winans has a school, the Marvin L. Winans Academy of Performing Arts, referred to by staff and students as "WAPA",  which he founded in 1997. He founded The Perfecting Church in Detroit, Michigan in 1989, and released an album featuring the church's choir in 1992 entitled Introducing Perfected Praise. A second album, Friends, appeared in 2001.

Bishop F.C.Barnes

BY DAVID MENCONI

Faircloth "F.C." Barnes, the gospel music icon from Rocky Mount, died Monday at a hospital in Greenville after a period of failing health. He was 82.

For more than half a century, the Rev. Barnes led Red Budd Holy Church in Rocky Mount, a renowned "singing church" where the Word was as likely to be sung as spoken. He was best-known for the hit "Rough Side of the Mountain," a song that sounds traditional enough to be at least a century old. Barnes wrote it in 1982.

              Rev. F.C. Barnes songs playlist   


"I once asked how he'd describe his music, and Rev. Barnes answered, 'Like I look,' " UNC-Chapel Hill folklore professor Glenn Hinson said Wednesday. "I asked what he meant, and without a pause he said, 'Old-timey.' He always held onto the old-time traditional style."

You could say that Barnes was born to be a minister. His father sang gospel, and his grandfather and five uncles were all preachers. So he grew up singing, which continued when he founded Red Budd in 1959 in a converted juke joint near the little Nash County town of Castalia.

The civil rights era brought trouble, including a 1963 bombing that reduced Red Budd's original building to rubble and forced a move to Rocky Mount. But the music kept playing, and Red Budd's reputation grew over the years.

Notable musicians to emerge from Red Budd include the reverend's son, Luther Barnes, a big star on the gospel circuit.

"We just had more or less of a singing family, and we're still going in that direction," Rev. Barnes said more than a decade ago. "I have four sons and they all sing. So do their children, their brothers, and their children. And I'm the pastor of all of them."

"Rough Side of the Mountain" became enough of a standard to earn a gold record after the album of the same name sold more than 500,000 copies. But Barnes wrote other songs that became equally popular in the gospel canon.

Wayne Martin, folklife director of the N.C. Arts Council, recently served on a National Endowment for the Arts panel reviewing grant applications from gospel groups and was struck by how many applicants performed Barnes songs.

"Just on the basis of 'Rough Side of the Mountain,' he was one of the most important gospel composers of our time," Martin said Wednesday. "His music is so direct, so much a product of his own experience, that people can relate to it. And even after getting into the mainstream, he still had very traditional roots reflecting his experiences in North Carolina African-American communities.

"He's been a real cultural treasure for us."

Barnes is survived by his wife, Addrine Gaskins Barnes; and four sons, two daughters, 11 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, four brothers, five sisters, two uncles and one aunt.

          "Father I Stretch My Hands To Thee" - Rev. F.C. Barnes & Company


          "(God is God) He Won't Change"


          I HAVE A FRIEND, REV FC BARNES

My life is in your hands - Kirk Franklin

Lean On Me

Are You Listening

Donald Vails - Choirs and Choraleers

                   Donald Vails - Choirs and Choraleers - Playlist


A native of Atlanta Georgia, The Reverend Donald Vails' early years were spent in a warm chrsitian enviroment replete with positive role models and achievers from whom he drew inspiration and encouragement. Reverend Vails had the unique experience of attending The Atlanta Gospel Choral Union Day Nursery, where christian principles, music lessons, love and discipline were dispensed in a program geared to produce positive leaders.

Central to these years were the experience he gained as member of Atlanta's Mt. Zion Baptist Church. It was here that the first indications of the magnitude of his musical talents and natural leadership were foreshadowed. At a time when most young people wer just beginning to develop a sense of identity, at age 12, Reverend Vails was directing his first choir.

In his late teens young Vails left Atlanta to pursue a degree in engineering at theDetroit (Michigan) Institute of Technology. Yet his childhood dream of a career in gospel music was destined to be fufilled. Almost immediately upon his arrival, he was engaged to play for various singing groups in the city. In 1969, he founded the internationally acclaimed Donald Vails Choraleers.

In 1977 Reverend Vails organized the Detroit Youth Kaleidoscope, a program which provided academic, spiritual and physical development for over 3,000 young people. From this group of talented young people came the Voices of Deliverance, whose debut album, "What A Wonderful Savior I've Found" remained on the Billboards Best Selling List for 104 consecutive weeks. In 1979, The Donald Vails Choraleers' album, "He Decided To Die," earned him both a gold album and the first of several Grammy nominations.

The desire to pursue an advanced degree in music education led Reverend Vails in 1985, to Howard University, Washington, D.C. Since relocation to Washington, he has continued, in the spirit of our Lord and Savior, to reach out and touch the lives of young and old alike. In February 1985, he organized the 80 member interdenominational community choir, "Salvation Corporation," and began his affiliation with The Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church of Fort Washington, Maryland. In March of '85, he organized Ebenezer's Young Adult Choir, a group which has grown from 40 orginail members to 175.

June 4, 1987 is another important date in the life of Reverend Vails. The historic Lincoln Memorial was the site of a special taping for "Night of Music 87," a musical production spotlighting classical, country, jazz, gospel and orchestral music, with the internationally recognized Zubin Mehta serving as central conductor. Reverend Vails and The Donald Vails Salvation Corporation were selected as the gospel artist for this special musical event. This show aired on June 20, 1987, on five continents with over 1 billon viewers.

In September 1991, Reverend Vails was named director of the 1100 - voice National Baptist Convention Choir in Washington, D.C., which opened the 111th session of the National Baptist Convention in a musical concert, with an audience of over 18,000.

When not traveling extensively throughout the world, sharing his musical gifts and serving our Savior, Donald Vails devotes his energies to developing christian youth. In Washington, he has organized a charitable not-profit christian organization, The Capital City Youth Choir comprised of over 100 interdenominational evangelical youth.

Reverend Vails also serves as the National Minister of Music for the Gospel Music Workshop of America Mass Choir founded by the late Reverend James Cleveland. Reverend Vails was the Director of Church Music at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington, Maryland and personally directs the Voices of Ebenezer, the Adult Choir, The Daughters of Zion and Rejoice choirs. He was married to the former Janine Anderson of Detroit. The family includes two   children: a son, Brian, and a daughter, Carmen.

Choirs Praising God Playlist

                      Choirs Praising God Playlist

South African Acapella Gospel Music

ITHEMBA is a male acapella group consisting of 14  guys praising and preaching the word of god through their beautiful voices from Durban, South Africa.

          Ithemba Musical Group-Sahlanzwa ngalo


         Ithemba Musical Group (Ingoma)


 The video is taken from the DVD titled Wonk' Amehlo by Believers In Christ, the DVD was shot in Durban.

Believers In Christ has released a countless number of albums, they have continued to be in the fore front of change in the Zion music industry. 

        Believers in Christ - Umusa ka-Jehova.wmv


A video from the latest Blessings of Christ album titled Abasezweni which was released end of last year. The entire DVD was directed by Mzwandile Mbatha who is a member of the church choir and also a son of the founder and bishop of Blessings in Christ.
        Blessings of Christ - Ngiyamethemba.wmv


        BLESSINGS OF CHRIST - Kuhle Moya Wami


        Blessings of Christ - Sobonana kwelizayo.wmv

The Redeemed Christian Church Of God RCCG - High Praise & Worship Video

THE LORD IS BLESSING ME - OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY AEOLIANS

Joe Praize Playlist

Oh Lord, my God, Jesus

I’ll speak of you Glory,
I will show forth your beauty
If I dance it wont be enough,
If I shout it wont be enough (Repeat)

For you are the great and mighty King
You rule in every nation
On Christ the solid rock,
You are worthy to be praised
You are Alpha and Omega, I worship you today
In you I put my trust, You name I will extol

Heaven speaks of your glory
And the earth of your beauty
Your love is new every morning
And your faithfulness is ever sure (Repeat)

For you are the great and mighty God
So worthy to be praised
Your beautiful for all situation
You are the joy of the whole world (Repeat)

Yelele, Uyingwele [You are Holy],
Siyakudumisa [I worship You]
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

For you are the great and mighty God
So worthy to be praised
Your beautiful for all situation
You are the joy of the whole world (Repeat)

Jesus, Jesus my Lord, You are the joy of the world…

An international multi-award winning gospel singer, song writer and music director, Joseph Omo Ebhodaghe, known globally as JoePraize is one of the biggest names in Gospel Music in Africa and indeed the fastest rising name in the world. He runs a record label, ‘COAST 2 COAST’ which was coined from his mandate to take Gospel Music to the ends of the earth, as he would also say “gospel music is for everybody”.

He has been nominated and won multiple awards at national and international levels, featured with two time grammy award winners, ‘The Soweto Gospel Choir‘ in his chart buster and multi award winning song, ‘Mighty God‘. JoePraize always seeks to communicate his unquestionable love and passion for God through his soul stirring and spirit lifting music which has brought salvation to many, healings to sick people, and strength to the weak. He currently has two albums to his credit, 4 amazing music videos, and three singles released in 2013.

Joepraize is one of the busiest gospel music minister around as he ministers every other weekend in different places and events spreading the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and bringing hope to the hopeless, strength to the weak, etc. He is also the CEO of Coast 2 Coast universal concept based in lagos Nigeria.

Sinach - playlist - Nigeria

           Sinach- playlist - Nigeria        


         Sinach, an award winning songwriter, worship leader and recording artist is a key member of the LoveWorld music team of Christ Embassy who started singing at a very young age. However, it was not until she met the man of God, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, that she knew that she was called and then began her training towards using her talent for ministry.

For over fifteen years Sinach has been privileged to witness, first hand, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and amazing miracles take place in the lives of people while ministering in music, as her mentor Pastor Chris ministered in the Healing School, several crusades, and conventions all over the world.

As a song writer who has written over 200 songs and won several awards, Sinach believes in writing from her heart and knowing what the Spirit of God is saying to the Church. Mostly inspired by the ministry of the Word by her Pastor, she has written songs such as Awesome God, Simply Devoted, I am ready for Your Spirit, Shout of the King, All things are possible, Born to win, Fire in me, More of You, No failure with God, 'This is your Season', which won the Song of the Year award in 2008 and still counting.

She has won several awards through the years and among them, the prestigious LoveWorld Awards for ‘Song Writer and Vocalist of the year’. She has also won awards for her work in providing praise and worship music material for the church in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Many of her songs are sung by several churches and people all over the world.

As a gifted vocalist and a worship leader, Sinach, with the LoveWorld Music team, has ministered to millions of people all over the world in mega programs such as Night of Bliss with Pastor Chris, Word at Work conventions with Pastor Chris, Youth Conferences with Pastor Chris, The Higher Life Conference, The Christ Embassy Healing School and many other programs by Pastor Chris with record attendance of over three million people.

She has also ministered to millions around the world on LoveWorld Sat, LoveWorld Plus, LoveWorld Television and other major television networks all over the world on the program Atmosphere for Miracles with Pastor Chris.

Sinach is fuelled by her passion to see people all over the world inspired to worship and praise God through Spirit-born music and lyrics and to see the name of God lifted up through her music. She has a passion for the glory of God! This reflects in her writings and productions, delivered under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Psalm 150: 6 "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord!"

The Name - Mali Music(NEW 2012)

Historical Black Colleges and Universities singing to the glory of God

     

              HBCU CHOIRS PLAYLIST

Africa Praises God My Father

           Africa Praises God My Father

The Love Of God - Playlist

              The Love Of God -  Playlist

Thank You God For Your Grace - Playlist

              Thank You God For Your Grace - Playlist

Kirk Whalum - 12 I want Jesus to walk with me - Hymns in the garden (+pl...

Gospel Goes Classical CD 1 & CD2

           

          Gospel Goes Classical CD 2

Carla Tolbert Taylor

Carla Tolbert Taylor is an anointed singer out of Memphis,Tennessee whose singing can often boggle the minds of those who listen to her. She attended church  at Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ in Memphis,Tennessee. She is an awesome singer, and she was raised in Holiness. She doesn’t just sing, but she loves the God that she sings about.

            Encourage Yourself- Carla Taylor
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            Carla Taylor- Take It Back
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           Smooth yet powerful, anointed yet gifted, Carla Tolbert Taylor is simply awesome.
Born in Memphis, TN,Carla has always been surrounded by music.
Influenced by her father, who was a singer before becoming 100% deaf. Carla's determined to live out her Father's dream by singing the good news of Jesus.

Carla has been grated the privilege of sharing the stage with several notable artist such as Donnine McClurkin, Yolanda Adams, Kim Burrell, and a host of other gospel artist.

Carla was awarded the honor of being the National Winner of the 2008 All State Gospel Superfest Opening Act Contest. Carla made headlines for being the last minute contestant who stole the show! Thousands of votes from fans from around the country allowed her the opportunity to open up for world renowned artist such as John P. KEE, Mary Mary, Kierra Sheard, and many others. Carla has touched the hearts of  many lives with her sound and ministry.

            Carla Tolbert Taylor "Take Me To The King"
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             Carla Taylor - Hymn Medley
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             Carla Taylor- For The Good Of Them
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Another Blessing (Melvin & Lee Williams)

Amazing Grace History/"Amazing Grace" By Wintley Phipps