Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers

Come Lay Your Head On Me - Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers


Come Lay Your Head On Me 2 - Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers


Praise and Worship - Donald Lawrence & the Tri-City Singers


I Am God - Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers

Donald Lawrence was born on May 4, 1958. He studied at Cincinnati Conservatory, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in music. While in Cincinnati, he was also the Minister of Music at the Southern Baptist Church on Reading Road. To his credit, Donald's musicality has seen many incarnations, as vocal coach to the R&B group En Vogue, musical director for Stephanie Mills, songwriter for The Clark Sisters, and producer for a host of artists including Peabo Bryson and Kirk Franklin. Donald Lawrence has been an inspiration to many.

Lawrence took on The Tri-City Singers after a friend vacated his position as musical director. The three cities that The Tri-City Singers come from are Spartanburg, SC, Gastonia, NC, and Charlotte, NC. The group debuted in 1993 with A Songwriter's Point Of View on a then-brand-new independent record label called GospoCentric Records. The set debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Gospel Charts.
The group's follow-up release Bible Stories would top those same charts when it arrived in 1995. It was the first to be billed as Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers and featured black church-ubiquitous hits such as "A Message For The Saints", "I Am God" and "Stranger". The album was released on Lawrence's newly minted label Crystal Rose Records which was distributed through Sparrow Records.

Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers - Encourage Yourself


God's Favor- Donald Lawrence and Tri City

LeJuene Thompson - Cast Your Cares


And Yet I'm Still Saved- Donald Lawrence & Tri City


It's Your Time- D Lawrence & Tri-City Singers Finale- Part 1


It's Your Time- D Lawrence & Tri-City Singers Finale- Part 2

In 1997, Donald Lawrence produced the live portion of Karen Clark Sheard's Grammy-nominated Finally Karen debut. Lawrence & Tri-City also released the seasonal Hello Christmas the same year. Later, Lawrence signed a contract with the Island Records imprint Island Inspirational. Though a live recording did take place for release, the album never materialized.
In 2000, Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers signed to EMI Gospel. To promote the new album, a maxi CD of the lead single "Testify" to the mainstream. House remixes by Junior Vasquez sent the song to #33 on Billboard's Mainstream Dance Charts. When tri-city4.com was finally released in late summer 2000, the set peaked at #2 on Billboard's Top Gospel Charts and #13 on Billboard's Heatseekers Charts. The album also got a profile boost from the all-star standout "God's Favor", featuring vocal turns from Karen Clark Sheard, Kim Burrell, and Kelly Price.
In March 2006, The Tri-City Singers announced that they would retire, but not before one last live recording. Finale: Act One and Finale: Act Two were released simultaneously on April 4, 2006.

Brenda Lowe - Somebody Somewhere Was Praying For Me

KIRK FRANKLIN(GOD'S PROPERTY) - LOVE(REARRANGED)

Prayer - Secret Garden

My Prayer For The World

We Are Christmas

          CD&Y - Go Tell It On The Mountain


            We Are Christmas - Spelman College Glee Club


            Spelman College Glee Club-Ave Maria


            Take 6 Live - Joy To The World/Christmas Medley

            BeBe & CeCe Winans - The First Noel 


            Kirk Franklin - Precious Lamb Of God


            Kirk Franklin - He's the Reason


            CeCe Winans - Because a Child is Born


            CD&Y - Cantique


            ACOG - We Came To Praise Him


            ACOG Brotherhood - Bethelemu

Bebe & Cece Winans Christmas

      


          Bebe & Cece Winans - Joy To The World


          Bebe & Cece Winans - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing


          Bebe & Cece Winans - Silent Night, Holy Night

BeBe Winans (born Benjamin Winans in 1962 in Detroit, MI),CeCe Winans (born Priscilla Winans on October 8, 1964, in Detroit, MI)

 BeBe and CeCe Winans' unique style won over a huge number of listeners and sent two of their albums platinum. Their album from 1988, Heaven, was with Aretha Franklin's 1972 Amazing Grace,  the second gospel record ever to go gold. Since then, BeBe and CeCe Winans have earned many more top ten hits on Billboard's R&B charts and won numerous Grammy, Stellar, and Dove Awards.

BeBe and CeCe were born into a family of gospel singers that in the 1980s and 1990s produced no fewer than four celebrated gospel acts: The Winans, Daniel Winans & the Second Half, and, of course, BeBe and CeCe. BeBe and CeCe gave their two youngest sisters, Angie and Debbie, their start singing back-up, and the two girls went on to form a duo of their own called Sisters.

     BeBe & CeCe Winans - For Unto Us (A Child Is Born)

          Bebe Winan - This is my Christmas Prayer

          BeBe & CeCe Winans-The First Noel

         

          Bebe Cece Winans - Jingle Bells

Universal Gospel Choir

          Universal Gospel Choir - The Wonders Of Handes

          The Universal Gospel choir was formed in February 2006. It consists of ± 40 members. The Choir is based in Johannesburg and its members are from neighboring locations like Soweto, Thembisa, Thokoza and some other City Suburbs.  Choir Conductor, Pastor Gibson Ngcobo 

           Universal Gospel Choir - In Moments Like These

            Universal Gospel Choir - Jesus is love (legendado em português)

                     THE MISSION

1. Through our music we aim to draw people closer to God through worship

2. We believe in putting God first in everything; He is the “leader” of this choir

3. We want to glorify and honor God with our music

4. We want to spread the Good News to all the world through song

5. We desire to touch the lives of our audience by telling them that God is alive

6. We want to Bring all kinds of people together with music because pain and suffering knows no race,             culture, or age

7. We desire to be instruments in the hands of God

       The choir had the good fortune to perform with some of South Africa's renowned gospel singers, like Rebecca Malope, Sfiso, Thembinkosi and Deborah Frazer. Although the Choir is fairly new in the music industry this has not borne complacency in the choir members but has motivated them to work even harder to promote the Universal Gospel Choir, not only in South Africa, they’ve traveled to South America singing in States like Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, And Sao Paulo and got a chance to record a live CD and DVD. They also went to Mozambique to perform in Machava Stadium where there was approximately ± 100 000 people. They have also graced stages in Lesotho, Botswana and Lesotho.

         Universal Gospel Choir - Akekho ofana noJesu 

        

            Universal Gospel Choir - Semphethe

             Universal Gospel Choir - Hlonolofatsa

The Mississippi Mass Choir

      Mississippi Mass Choir "Near The Cross"


       Mississippi Mass Choir "Having You There"

The Mississippi Mass Choir is a gospel choir based in Jackson, Mississippi.

Under the musical direction of David R. Curry Jr., and under the choir direction of Dorcus Curry Thigpen, the 250+-member choir developed a sound that made them a constant presence on Billboard's gospel charts. Each of their recordings have reached the top position on the charts. Their debut album, Live, recorded during a 1988 performance at the Jackson Municipal Auditorium, remained on the charts for 45 weeks and earned the group James Cleveland GMWA awards as Contemporary Choir of the Year and Best New Traditional Artist of the Year. 

Their second album, God Gets the Glory, reached number one two weeks after it was released in 1990.  The Mississippi Mass Choir's most successful album, It Remains to Be Seen, topped the charts for 12 months and received a Soul Train music award as best gospel album of 1993.  The album was the choir's last with founder Frank D. Williams.  Determined to bring together the best gospel voices in Mississippi, Williams had convinced Jerry Mannery, the head of Malaco's gospel division, to sign the choir to a record deal and serve as executive director.

The Mississippi Mass Choir continues to dedicate itself to its self-described mission of "serving God through song."

     Mississippi Mass Choir - I'm Not Tired Yet

       By Grace - MMC (Rogina Thomas, soloist)

      Lord I Thank You - Mississippi Mass Choir

      We Shall Meet Again - Mississippi Mass Choir

       All In His Hands - Mississippi Mass Choir

The Soul Seekers

          The Soul Seekers ft. Marvin Winans "It's All God"


          The SOul Seekers - What Would You Do?

           I've Got It Video by The Soul Seekers


           Soul Seekers - You Oughta Been There

          The Soul Seekers I'll Take Jesus

KIRK FRANKLIN

               Always


              Don't Cry

           

        MY LIFE, MY LOVE, MY ALL

         HOSANA



           Brand New Day


Kirk playing a medley of some classic gospel songs at the Rebirth Concert


            Mama's song

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!"