Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s always a kerfuffle when gospel artists cross over to secular music, but Sapp’s new EP arrives under special circumstances.

Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

SummitMedia has named J’Michael Francois as its Vice President of Programming for R&B and Gospel. Francois moves to SummitMedia following nearly two decades at Cumulus Media, where he served in ...

*As Keith Mitchell releases “He’s Alive,” his rousing, praise-filled gospel-fired soul debut single as a solo artist, the veteran R&B singer imparts a fascinating, little-known truth about where his ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was singing all the time. He sang in church. He sang R&B with his buddies. But then his mother told him he had to make a choice.

He previously served as Operations Manager and programming leader for stations in Baton Rouge and New Orleans owned by Cumulus Media. As of today, he is now VP of Programming for R&B and Gospel at ...

It’s not a foreign concept for gospel artists to turn secular in music, but it definitely garners attention when a bishop takes the helm. Fort Worth’s Marvin Sapp has gone R&B – temporarily – with a ...

David Peaston, 54, an R&B and gospel singer who scored national fame after winning on "Showtime at the Apollo" during the late '80s, died Wednesday (Feb. 1, 2012) from complications of diabetes at his ...