The Gospel message of redemption and grace took center stage on Star Search Tuesday night when contestant Bear Bailey ...

Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

Richard Smallwood, a giant of gospel music, died on Tuesday. He was 77 years old. According to his publicist, Smallwood died of complications of kidney failure in Sandy Spring, Maryland. For decades, ...

Richard Smallwood, the eight-time Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer, has died. He was 77. A representative for Smallwood confirmed the "Total Praise" musician died on Tuesday, Dec. 30, at ...

Sign up for our FREE acclaimed newsletters! The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer ...

Attorney Rabbi Mashabela founded Shynebright Gospel Choir treating gospel music as serious cultural enterprise with excellence. Twelve singers selected from three hundred auditions to create ...

Veteran Ghanaian gospel musician, Joe Beecham, has reflected on the evolution of gospel music in Ghana, noting significant changes in production quality, technology and industry recognition over the ...

Music swelled around Shawna Edwards as she sat in the Conference Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. “It was really one of the great moments of my life,” she ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...