Gospel musicians Gospel musicians Reverend Al Green (b. April 13, 1946) is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Al Green (musician)"
Professor Alex Bradford ( 1927- 1978) was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director who was a great influence on artists such as Little Richard and Ray Charles and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in gospel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alex Bradford"
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an iconic American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. On January 3, 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Many have called her "The Queen Of Soul" and "Lady Soul". She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the best vocalists ever by such industry publications/media outlets as Rolling Stone and VH1, due to her phenomenal ability to inject whatever she may be singing about with gut wrenching soul (hence the title) and sheer conviction. She has won sixteen competitive Grammys (including an unprecedented twelve for Best female R&B vocal performance) and the state of Michigan has declared her voice to be a natural wonder. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aretha Franklin"
Arizona Dranes ( 1905 (?) – 1960 (?)) was one of the first gospel artists to bring the Sanctified musical styles of Holiness churches' religious music to the public in her records for Okeh and performances in the 1920s. She introduced piano accompaniment to Holiness music, which had previously been largely a cappella, and accompanied herself in the barrelhouse and ragtime styles popular at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arizona Dranes"
Benjamin Carl Unseld (1843 - 1923), better known as B. C. Unseld, was a gospel music teacher, composer, and publisher. Unseld was born October 18, 1843 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In the early 1860s, he moved to Pennsylvania. Though mostly self-taught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He studied music under Eben Tourjée and Theodore F. Seward. B. C. Unseld taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the school's first secretary. Later he taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the first principal of the Virginia Normal School of Music. Unseld and Seward, with Biglow and Main publishers, imported John Curwen's Tonic Sol-fa and promoted it. The method was never widely received in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Carl Unseld"
Bessie Jones, 1902-?, Gospel singer from the Georgia Sea Islands. She learned her songs from her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bessie Jones"
"Blind" Willie Johnson (c. 1902- 1945), was an African-American singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. While the lyrics of most of his songs were religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions. Among musicians, he is considered one of the greatest slide or bottleneck guitar artists who ever lived, as well as one of the most revered figures of depression-era gospel music. His music is distinguishable by his powerful bass strumming and gravelly false-bass voice, with occasional use of a tenor voice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blind Willie Johnson"
Dorothy Love Coates ( January 30, 1928, Birmingham, Alabama- April 9, 2002) rose to stardom in the 1950s as a member of The Original Gospel Harmonettes, a gospel group from Birmingham, Alabama. With her "raggedy" voice and preacher's fire she could outsing the most powerful hard gospel male singers of the era. She was also a notable composer, writing songs such as "You Can't Hurry God (He's Right On Time)", "99 and a Half Won't Do" and "That's Enough". ...more on Wikipedia about "Dorothy Love Coates"
Etta James (b. Jamesetta Hawkins January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Blues, R&B and gospel singer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Etta James"
Fred Hammond (born in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and producer. He has been active both as a member of gospel performing group Commissioned, and currently as a solo artist for Verity Records. While playing the bass guitars for the Winans, he began to venture out into other venues of gospel music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fred Hammond"
Inez Andrews is an American gospel singer born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. Her mother died when she was quite young, and she grew up under the influnce of many of her relatives. In the 1950s Andrews became a member of the gospel group known as Albertina Walker & The Caravans. Along with Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker, Shirley Caesar, Cassietta George, Josepine Howard, Eddie Herndon, and Delores Washington, she became one of the superstars of gospel's golden age. The Caravans produced songs such as "Lord Keep Me Day By Day", "Remember Me," "I Won't Be Back," and several other hits in which Andrews was lead vocalist, including "Mary Don't You Weep," "I'm Not Tired Yet," "Make It In," "He Won't Deny Me," and "I'm Willing". After a stellar career with the Caravans, she left the group in 1962 and had huge success with her crossover hit, "Lord Don't Move the Mountain". In 2002, she was inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inez Andrews"
Jesse Gillis Whitfield (b. 1915), also known as J.G. or Whit, is a gospel musician, music promoter, and member of the Southern Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. G. Whitfield"
Jake Hess was a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer in the southern United States. He was born William Jesse Hess December 24, 1927, in Limestone County, Alabama, and died January 4, 2004 in Opelika, Alabama after suffering a heart attack December 14 2003, just days after a performance in Atlanta, Georgia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jake Hess"
Woody Rock (born James Green on September 10 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an African-American gospel and R&B singer. Woody is best known as one of the founding members of multi-platinum R&B act Dru Hill, a group for which he has written and sung lead on songs such as "5 Steps", "April Showers", and "Angel". He has also recorded his own solo gospel album, Soul Music, for Kirk Franklin's Gospocentric Records. His nickname was derived from the Woody Woodpecker cartoon character. ...more on Wikipedia about "James "Woody" Green"
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James Carr ( June 13, 1942 - January 7, 2001), was a United States soul music singer. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Carr (musician)"
James Cleveland ( December 5, 1932 - February 9, 1991) was a gospel singer, arranger, composer and, most significantly, the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound, bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel and jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Cleveland"
Joe Bonsall (born May 18, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a member of the Oak Ridge Boys, and in 2003 published GI Joe and Lillie, a book about his parents' lives during and after World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe Bonsall"
Johnny Fred Carter was born in Calhoun, GA, on June 5, 1947. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johnny Carter"
Jubilee quartets were popular African-American religious musical groups in the first half of the twentieth century. The name derives from the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, a group of male singers organized by students at Fisk University in 1905 to sing Negro spirituals, which had typically been sung by mixed choirs before then. Students at other historically black schools, such as Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute and Wilberforce University, followed suit. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jubilee quartet"
Kirk Franklin (born on January 26, 1970 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a platinum-selling African-American musician who blended gospel, hip hop, and R&B in the 1990s. He released his first gospel album, Kirk Franklin & Family, in 1993, and is known as the leader of contemporary gospel choirs such as Kirk Franklin & the Family, Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation, and God's Property. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kirk Franklin"
Lee Roy Abernathy ( August 13, 1913– 1993) was an American vocalist and composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lee Roy Abernathy"
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The Pilgrim Travelers were a gospel group popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Formed in the early 1930s in Houston, Texas, they were strongly influenced by another Texas-based quartet, the Soul Stirrers. They achieved popularity after moving to Los Angeles in 1942, where their new manager, James "Woodie" Alexander, helped fashion a new style that went beyond imitating the Soul Stirrers and the Golden Gate Quartet, the other reigning quartet of the era. Like the Soul Stirrers, the Travelers traded the lead between their two best singers, Kylo Turner, a baritone with the same facility as a note-bending falsetto as R.H. Harris of the Soul Stirrers, and Keith Barber, also nicknamed "Doc" or "Crip", who changed from being a sweet-voiced tenor to a hard gospel shouter under Alexander's direction. They added Jesse Whitaker — whom Ray Charles credited as one of his models when he adapted hard gospel style to secular themes to create soul music in the 1950s — as a baritone in 1947. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pilgrim Travelers"
Roberta Martin ( February 12, 1907- January 18, 1969) was an influential gospel artist who helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group The Roberta Martin Singers. Hardly known outside the African-American community, her funeral in Chicago in 1969 attracted over 50,000 mourners. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roberta Martin"
Sallie Martin ( 1895- 1988) was a gospel singer nicknamed "the mother of gospel music" for her efforts to popularize the songs of Thomas A. Dorsey and her influence on other artists. Raised as a Baptist in Pittfield, Georgia, she joined the Pentecostal movement as a young woman. She began her career singing in Holiness churches after coming to Chicago in 1927. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sallie Martin"
Shirley Caesar (b. October 13, 1938) is an African-American gospel singer and Christian pastor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shirley Caesar"
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