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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 ...
Gospel music is what it is today thanks to the countless Black artists who hand-crafted the genre. Mahalia Jackson. Mahalia Jackson is one of the matriarchs of gospel music. Born in poverty in New ...
WEZO - 1230 The Blaze - Urban AC/Black Gospel; WNRR - Gospel 1380 - Urban Gospel; WTHN/WTHB-FM – Praise 96.9 & 1550 – Urban Gospel; WKZK – The Spirit 103.7 FM & 1600 AM – Urban Gospel; WAEG – Smooth Jazz 92.3 – Smooth jazz; WKSP – 96.3 Kiss FM – Urban Adult Contemporary; WIIZ – The Wiz 97.9 – Mainstream urban
Black Information Network (BIN) is a radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting African American communities, carrying mostly important national news headline stories as well as current events and special interest features.
Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Louisiana", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636 – via Internet Archive "AM Stations in the U.S.: Louisiana", Radio Annual Television Year Book, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1963, OCLC 10512375 – via Internet Archive
WSOK (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an urban gospel format.It is licensed to Savannah, Georgia, and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WSOK carries the syndicated "Early Morning Praise Party with Dre Monie and Sherry Mackey" from WHAL Memphis.
Clay Evans (June 23, 1925 – November 27, 2019) was an African American Baptist pastor and founder of the influential Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, famous for its gospel music infused Sunday service and choir. [1] Evans released his first musical project in 1984, What He's Done For Me with Savoy Records.
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 ...