LiFe?? (Music by Hillsong--There is none like You)

Jeff Majors

Natalie Cole - Just A Closer Walk With Thee

Deniece Williams- God Is Amazing

Donnie McClurkin

    Donnie McClurkin - That's What I Believe

              Donnie McClurkin - Great Is Your Mercy (live)

    
  Donnie McClurkin (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work      

              Create in me a clean heart / DONNIE McCLURKIN


              Donnie McClurkin - I'll Trust You Lord


              Donnie McClurkin - Stand


               Donnie McClurkin- "We Fall Down" (Live)

Lexi tells the world of His wonderous works!!!

Lexi takes you somewhere different and Lets You Have it!!
        No less a talent than Lalah Hathaway once said, "Lexi is BAD!" And Lalah ain't never lied...
On her second project for boxer Evander Holyfield's Real Deal label, Lexi serves up another heaping helping of the REAL, inspirational pop/R&B that is her hallmark. She can purr softly a la Miss Jackson ("Not Until") then get nasty and go full-throttle like gospel belters LaShun Pace ("Testify") and Shirley Murdock ("Not the Same"), whose tone, runs and style are very similar to Lexi's. 
She can also articulate and milk a melody like her "inspirational" sistren CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams ("Ms. Incognito" and "I Lift My Hands"). But the singer has a distinctive, playful side that is all her own, as evidenced by her Carmen Miranda-inspired accent on "He's Done So Much for Me," which has a slamming "I Dream of Jeannie"-like Latin groove that calls the hips to salsify as Lexi rolls her "R-uhs" and testifies: "He's like love on a wedding day/like chicken after church on Sunday/He's the sugar in my ice-cold Kool Aid/that's it--my point has been made." Indeed. Lexi is bad! 

      Not Until (Lexi featuring Kim Burrell)

As a former high school teacher, Lexi embarked back onto the music scene in 1999 with Evander Holyfield's record label Holy Music Group/Real Deal Records. Her mission is that the body of Christ be liberated and empowered to be an effective authority on earth as God intended.

Lexi received her musical baptism singing in the Ohio based Pentecostal Church where her grandfather served as Senior Pastor and Founder. "I probably started singing when I was about five or six," says Lexi.

In 1990, barely out of her teens, her critically acclaimed album Call Her Lexi, made a huge impact on gospel music audiences and on the industry as a whole. Her contemporary style and the album's urban crossover appeal garned a wave of attention to this budding talent.

Throughout her career as a singer, Lexi sang background for Gerald LeVert during her college years, was a former member of the CCM group Anointed, and sang background with Fred Hammond, and Dawkins & Dawkins, all before venturing out on her own.

After all that, Lexi completed her undergraduate studies at Bowling Green State University where she received her Bachelor's of Arts degree in Interpersonal Communication. Shortly after that, she toured in leading roles with such plays as Michael Matthew's, "I Need A Man," and "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." She then went back to school, and received a teaching degree from the University of Detroit, Mercy.

After nine years away from the music industry, Lexi returned with the album from Real Deal Records entitled, Lexi...And That's the Way It Is. Videos from that album, "I'm A Winner," and "Conversation," are still being aired and requested, and are being voted number one on gospel video countdowns all over the country by viewers. Furthermore, collaborating with her husband and producer Michael Allen, she was nominated for the coveted Stellar Award.

     Testify (Lexi with Male Praise Dancers)

  Her third release is the best yet. "This project is totally different from anything that I've ever recorded before," says Lexi. She continues, "This project is a live recording that includes some of the most anointed and closest friends of mine. I have no doubt that people will be set free by the power of God from these songs." Some of her guests on the album and DVD release entitled, A Praise in The Valley, include gospel artists, Williams Murphy, Kim Burrell, Dave & Nicole Binion, and K & K Mime.

Lexi has also ventured into television, as the new host and field reporter for The Word Network. She has just wrapped production on her first show entitled: 1on1 w/ Lexi! It is tentatively set to air in the fall of 2005. "We must be willing to utilize every avenue of the mass media including radio, television, and print, to win souls in our generation and generations to come for the body of Christ," says Lexi. "I'm just getting started."  

     I Lift My Hands (Lexi featuring K&K Mimes)

    

     Be There (Lexi)

Lexi -Thats how I know

Lexi, im a winner.....(in christ)

Lexi "He's Here Right Now LIVE!"

Lexi & William Murphy III : Wherever the Lord Is

OSLO GOSPEL CHOIR

        Sweetest Name I Know


           Never let me go

Oslo Gospel Choir is a Norwegian gospel choir residing in Oslo, Norway conducted by Tore W. Aas. The choir started up in 1988 and has since then become one of the most successful in Europe with success both in Europe and America. They have released around 20 releases. They are very much influenced by the black American gospel sound and the American Andrae Crouch is a major source of inspiration, with his approach in taking the gospel out of the churches and into other arenas, reaching a larger audience. Andrae Crouch has sung and been involved on several of their albums. Has also sung with Albertina Walker and also Delois Barrett Campbell of the Barrett Sisters. Princess Märtha Louise of Norway has sung solo with them on two Christmas albums.

In March 1989, TV host Dan Brge Aker heard of this new gospel choir rehearsing at a bible school in central parts of Oslo. Up to this point, putting a Christian choir into a Saturday night TV-show was considered bad entertainment. Listening to the choir, Aker was convinced that what he was hearing had to be a success. "For once I was sure that a television appearance would hit home for the around one million Norwegian viewers watching. They were unique. Traditionally, there is one soloist that makes the center point of a choir. Not so this time. The solo singers performed excellent without taking away the impression of the choir as a whole."

He recalls the nearly twenty minutes of prayer time that the Oslo Gospel Choir wouldn't miss before any appearance. "This was a new experience for the television staff, having artists who would turn to God in front of the show, praying that their message would reach the hearts of those watching. At one occasion the choir almost missed the show, as they were too busy worshipping."

       I surrender all

            Draw me close

           Come, now is the time to worship

            I give You my Heart

            Power of your love

            Oslo Gospel Choir - This Is The Lord's Doing  

what a friend we have in Jesus

Greg O'Quin & iPraize - Lead Me Jesus

Roberta Martin Singers

               Roberta Martin - A Short History


   Born in Helena, Arkansas, Martin moved to Chicago with her family in 1917, where she studied piano. Although a high school teacher inspired her to dream of becoming a concert pianist, her future course was changed after accompanying the Young People's Choir at Ebenezer Baptist Church. She came into contact with Thomas A. Dorsey, known as the Father of Gospel Music, through her work as the pianist for the youth choir. With Dorsey's help, she and Theodore Frye organized the Martin-Frye Quartet, a youth group consisting of Eugene Smith, Norsalus McKissick, Robert Anderson, James Lawrence, Willie Webb and Romance Watson, in 1933. Martin renamed the group the Roberta Martin Singers in 1936 and added Bessie Folk and Delois Barrett Campbell to the group in the 1940s. The group set the standard for the gospel choir and mixed group, and had an extremely successful recording career, featuring such hits as "Only A Look," and "Grace."[2] Most of these songs were published by Roberta Martin Studio of Music, a publishing house in Chicago that she incorporated in 1939, and would eventually publish outstanding compositions by gospel artists ranging from Professor Alex Bradford to James Cleveland. Her first composition, "Try Jesus, He Satisfies," was an immediate hit in 1943.[3] She was also the choir director of the Pisgah Baptist Church in Chicago for many years.

  The theme song of the Roberta Martin Singers is "Only A Look." It was always sung at the opening of their concerts, at their annual Anniversary Program in Chicago, and was recorded on the Apollo label with Bessie Folk as lead soloist and later on the Savoy label with Delois Barrett as lead vocalist. Martin's group was unique in a number of ways. It was the first to include both male and female voices in a small group format. Martin favored smooth harmonies and a subtle rhythmic dynamic in which her singers were slightly, almost imperceptibly, behind the beat. On slower songs Martin featured lead singers against a subdued background provided by the rest of the group; on jubilee and shout material she used the more energetic call-and-response technique typical of Holiness churches. Martin encouraged her singers to maintain their individual personalities, allowing the audience to distinguish each backup singer's voice rather than blending them into a single choral sound.

Martin complemented her group's performance with her piano accompaniment, which often dictated the rhythm and pace of the song or commented on it by responding to or accenting a singer's performance. Martin's piano style reflected the influence of Holiness artists such as Arizona Dranes and her classical training. The other musical signature of the Roberta Martin Singers was the accompaniment of "Little" Lucy Rodgers Smith on the Hammond organ. Her droning introductory chord and unique "passes" using the bass pedals set the tone for a meditative experience and became a recognized trademark of a "Roberta Martin gospel song".

Martin's refined, subdued style, which emphasized phrasing and modulation,[original research?] had a profound influence on many gospel artists, including Albertina Walker, James Cleveland and Alex Bradford.[citation needed] Cleveland and Bradford wrote and arranged for and performed with her group early in their careers. Her stylistic restraint did not, on the other hand, mean that her group lacked fervor or emotional punch; as one commentator noted, "Bert would sneak up on you and hurt you."
Her group disbanded upon her death in 1969 but the surviving members continued to perform as a group in reunion concerts into the 21st century. Many of the members had later solo careers such as Delois Barrett, and Gloria Griffin, who was the author of the classic gospel song "God Specializes", made famous by the Roberta Martin Singers in concerts and recordings.

            "Old Ship of Zion" (1949)- The Roberta Martin Singers


           "When He Set Me Free"- Roberta Martin Singers


           "Whisper a Prayer" (1965)- The Roberta Martin Singers


            The Roberta Martin Singers - He Didn't Mind Dying (1952)


            "Crucifixion" (1957)- The Roberta Martin Singers


            The Roberta Martin Singers - What A Blessing In Jesus

Roberta Martin Singers- "God Specializes"

"Only A Look"- Roberta Martin Singers

"He'll Never Let You Down" (1982)- Daryl Coley & GMWA Choir

Richard Smallwood with Vision

                              Richard Smallwood with Vision
                                             Persuaded  -   Live in D.C.
Few sounds in Gospel are as recognizable as those that come from Richard Smallwood.
Be it his songwriting, those classical piano solos, or that resonant, richly textured thickness that is the hallmark of his vocal ensembles, the ear cannot mistake his genius.

The beauty here is that Persuaded embraces all that is so beloved of previous projects, but also explores beyond, giving even more to appreciate. The D.C.-based maestro demonstrates in front of the packed Jericho City of Praise church, that our God is One who knows no creative bounds.

Smallwood brings back his familiar top-notch collaborators. Steven Ford once again joins him in production and keyboards, Darin Atwater orchestrates, Bryan Pugh, Mark Walker, Jeff Davis and Jonathan Dubose play, and the entire Vision roster sing their hearts out.
The combination eloquently paints in music the meaning of the words that we are all singing along in our heads. Even with chaos and storms going around us, we who rest in Jesus Christ are nevertheless secure —it is well within our souls.

      Richard Smallwood & Vision - Procession of the Levites (Prelude to Anthem of Praise)


          Richard Smallwood & Vision - Anthem of Praise

        
          Richard Smallwood & Vision - Coronation w/ Overture (Orchestral Prelude)


         Richard Smallwood & Vision - Hold On Don't Let Go


         Richard Smallwood & Vision - Nothing Without Your Love


          Richard Smallwood & Vision - Your Love Divine


          Richard Smallwood & Vision - Oh Lord, We Praise You


                 Richard Smallwood & Vision - Calvary


            Richard Smallwood | HE GOT UP Praise Break

            
            Richard Smallwood & Vision - Psalms 8


          Richard Smallwood & Vision - My Everything [Praise Waiteth] (Part 1)


          Richard Smallwood & Vision - My Everything [Praise Waiteth] (Part 2)


        

Follow Me By Maurette Brown Clark (With Lyrics)

Maurette Brown Clark It Ain t Over w/ Lyrics

Shekinah Glory Ministry - Yes

Say Yes - Shekinah Glory Ministries [Pt. 2]

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Piano Solo by Ian Oakley - Extended

Ian Oakley - Great Is Your Name