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Black gospel music, often called gospel music or gospel, is the traditional music of the Black diaspora in the United States.It is rooted in the conversion of enslaved Africans to Christianity, both during and after the trans-atlantic slave trade, starting with work songs sung in the fields and, later, with religious songs sung in various church settings, later classified as Negro Spirituals ...
Black composer and musician Thomas A. Dorsey, became a highly influential figure in Black gospel music beginning in the 1920s and 1930s. He earned the title of the “Father of Gospel Music” for ...
What most African Americans would identify today as "gospel" began in the early 20th century. The gospel music that Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, Willie Mae Ford Smith and other pioneers popularized had its roots in the blues as well as in the more freewheeling forms of religious devotion of "Sanctified" or "Holiness" churches—sometimes called "holy rollers" by other denominations — who ...
List of gospel songs which have reported sales of 1 million units or higher but are uncertified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Though " I'll Take You There " by The Staple Singers was certified Gold on January 31, 2019, for digital sales of 500,000 units, [ 4 ] its physical sales of 1.5 million units, reported on May 6 ...
Lucie Eddie Campbell, the youngest of eleven children, was born to Burrell and Isabella (Wilkerson) Campbell in Duck Hill, Mississippi, US on April 30, 1885. [1] Her father worked for the Mississippi Central Railroad (later purchased by the Illinois Central Railroad), and she was born in the caboose of a train. [1]
This list includes artists that perform in traditional gospel music genres such as Southern gospel, traditional black gospel, urban contemporary gospel, gospel blues, Christian country music, Celtic gospel and British black gospel as well as artists in the general market who have recorded music in these genres.
WOW Gospel 1998 is a gospel music compilation album in the WOW series. It was released on January 27, 1998, and is the first WOW album to feature and focus on contemporary gospel in the wake of its growing popularity at the time, thus setting high standard for future releases. It reached chart position 100 on the Billboard 200, and second place ...
The song was ranked by Billboard as the fourth biggest gospel song in 2022. [6] " Jireh" was nominated for the GMA Dove Award Worship Recorded Song of the Year at the 2021 GMA Dove Awards . It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song at the 2022 Grammy Awards , and the Billboard Music Award ...