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Donnie McClurkin. Donald Andrew McClurkin Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel 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 Awards. He is one of the top selling gospel artists, selling over 13 million albums. [1]
Songwriter (s) Rick Founds. "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High" is a worship song. It was written by Rick Founds in 1989. Founds wrote the song during his morning devotion, while reading the scriptures on his computer monitor and watching television. He plucked his guitar thinking about the "cycle of redemption", comparing it with the water cycle.
Donnie McClurkin covered the song featuring Kirk Franklin on his 2004 album Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs and his version was also on the soundtrack of the 2005 film The Gospel, starring Boris Kodjoe. Trey Anastasio has covered this song live in concert numerous times, including on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on October 30, 2012.
"Stand by Me" is a song originally performed in 1961 by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by him, along with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who together used the pseudonym Elmo Glick. According to King, the title is derived from, and was inspired by, a spiritual written by Sam Cooke and J. W. Alexander called "Stand by Me Father", recorded by the Soul Stirrers
ladytramainehawkinsministries.com. Tramaine Aunzola Richardson , (née' Davis) known professionally as Tramaine Hawkins (born October 11, 1951), [1][2] is an American award-winning Gospel singer whose career spans over five decades. Since beginning her career in 1966, Hawkins has won two Grammy Awards, two Doves, and 19 Stellar Awards.
The official soundtrack for The Prince of Egypt was released on November 17, 1998. It features songs and scoring from the film, as well as songs not used in the film. The album peaked at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Top Contemporary Christian chart, and No. 25 on the Billboard 200 chart.
WOW Gospel 2003 is the first in the WOW Gospel series to use album covers to pay tribute to major cities which were influential in gospel music. The album cover pays tribute to New York City, in light of 9/11 over a year earlier. The album was certified as platinum in the US in 2004 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
WOW Gospel 2001 is a gospel music compilation album in the WOW series.Released February 6, 2001, it comprises thirty-two songs on a double disc set. The album reached 75 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2001, and hit number one in both 2001 and 2002 on the Top Gospel Albums chart.