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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 ...
A gospel song with Christian themes, "Savior's Shadow" served as a reminder that his faith was strong. Additionally, its lyrics detail losing faith during troubling times in his life, but ultimately result in him gaining more. It was generally well received by music critics, who applauded Shelton's change in musical genre. Some critics even ...
Label: EMI Gospel; 56 Smokie Norful Live: Released: 2009; Label: Tre'Myles Music/EMI; 55 Smokie Norful Presents Victory Cathedral Choir: Released: 2010; Label: EMI Gospel; 121 How I Got Over...Songs That Carried Us: Released: 2011; Label: Tre'Myles Music/EMI; 131 Once in a Lifetime: Released: 2012; Label: Tre'Myles Music/EMI; 116 Forever Yours ...
"Hold My Mule" is a 1988 black gospel song by Shirley Caesar. Telling the story of an old man named Shoutin' John who boisterously praises God for his numerous blessings to the dismay of more conservative, "spiritually dead" clergy, the song earned newfound popularity in 2016 after DJ Suede the Remix God remixed the song into the Thanksgiving anthem "You Name It!"
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 ...
[4] [12] On October 16, 2016, Fantasia performed the song for the first time live with Tribbett on his BET gospel music show Joyful Noise. [3] A preview was released through BET four days prior to the broadcast. [20] Christine Thomasos of The Christian Post praised Fantasia and Tribbett's performance as a "powerful duet". [3]
At the 2020 Billboard Music Awards, the song won the Top Gospel Song award over fellow album tracks "Closed on Sunday", "On God" and "Selah". [48] The song received a nomination for the award of Top Christian Song at the same ceremony. [48] At the 51st GMA Dove Awards in 2020, "Follow God" was awarded Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the Year. [49]