The Grammy-nominated composer and gospel pioneer, whose music transformed modern worship and inspired generations of churches ...

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The music world has lost a luminary. Richard Smallwood, the renowned gospel singer, composer, and pianist, passed away at the age of 77, leaving behind a profound legacy in the realm of gospel music.

Richard Smallwood didn’t just write songs. He crafted hymns that felt like they had always existed. His music lived in that ...

Jefferson's theory, he said, is that classical playing comes more from a visual culture while gospel comes from a more aural culture.<P> Jefferson has developed a curriculum on how to teach gospel ...

Audrey DuBois Harris (Photo Credit: Myahdellese Jones [M. Jones Imaging]) *International classical recording artist Audrey DuBois Harris and multi-genre artist Damien Sneed release new CD project, God ...

Richard Smallwood, the renowned Grammy-nominated gospel singer-songwriter whose music has been covered by Destiny's Child and ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

Few people know this fact about Handel’s “Messiah,” his quintessential, reverential masterpiece written in 1741: Mozart, himself, did his own arrangement of the work using more horns and far less ...

Richard Smallwood, gospel music legend behind 'Total Praise,' dies at 77 from kidney failure. Fans and stars mourn his ...