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

It has long been assumed that Sun Records founder Sam Phillips didn’t like gospel music because he discouraged his greatest discoveries, including Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, from recording ...

Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. They met 40 years ago at Atlantic Records, where Friedlander was photographing many of the artists ...

Rosetta Thompson, owner of three D.C.-area hair boutiques, loved gospel music so much she found the time to exchange her curling iron for a microphone to sing and become a top gospel quartet promoter ...

The gold record on the living room wall is proof that the Rev. Janice Brown made an impact on the gospel music scene as the female member of the duo Barnes and Brown. That this Black singer/pastor ...

Willa Mae Dorsey, whose gospel-singing career lasted 56 years, filled five albums, won her a Grammy nomination and introduced black gospel music to many white congregations, died Jan. 5 at age 75.

One of the Black history documentaries that I had marked on my to-see list is the recently released PBS “Gospel” series that is hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher ...

“I need a change,” Aretha Franklin says at one point in “Respect,” the new film starring Jennifer Hudson as the Queen of Soul. “I want to sing what I want to sing.” For all her talent, Franklin’s rise ...

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complemented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, has died at his home outside Chicago. Pervis Staples died May 6 at 85, ...