Floriene Watson Willis sang in the early days of gospel music. She taught Aretha Franklin a hymn. She’s turning 99.

The Watson Family Singers were some of the first gospel performers on the radio, thanks to their All Nations Pentecostal ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

Gospel Echoes in the 1940s

Frank Sudderth, the bespectacled member of the gospel singing group Gospel Echoes, pictured here, was chairman of the deacon board of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Texana, Cherokee ...
Rolling Out

5 reasons listening to gospel music strengthens your faith

Gospel music is more than just a genre; it is a spiritual experience that transcends time and space. For centuries, believers have turned to gospel music to deepen their faith, find solace in ...
Rolling Out

Gospel Music Hall of Fame

Posthumous Inductees included Dr. Whitney Houston, Dr. Cissy Houston, Inez Andrews, Former Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson, Harold Lashaun Martin, and Al “The Bishop” Hobbs ...
Tennessean

First-of-its-kind Christian and Gospel Music Museum to open in Nashville. What unearthed treasures to expect

Executive Director Steve Gilreath has gathered donated items as well as attic finds for new museum. Museum and Hall of Fame will encompass all genres of Christian and Gospel Music from rock to country ...