Dr. Paul T. Kwami, revered music director of the world-renowned, Grammy-winning Fisk Jubilee Singers for 28 years, died in a Nashville hospital early Saturday morning, his family announced in a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For 150 years, people have enjoyed the sounds of the Fisk Jubilee Singers — and a rare recording has just been revealed. A newly discovered song performed by what was then ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Last year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers celebrated their 150th anniversary. Wednesday, Fisk leaders gathered to celebrate a new commemorative book that captures the rich ...

It's a sunny morning in early May, not long after the spring semester has ended. Most college students would still be sleeping off their post-exam celebrations, but at Fisk University, a group of ...

Crystal A. deGregory, Ph.D. is a proud 2003 graduate of the historic Fisk University and is a research fellow at Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Historic Preservation. A little over 150 ...

In "Walk Together Children: The 150th Anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers®," Dr. Paul T. Kwami and his students pay tribute to the original nine members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Organized as a ...

Miko Marks is teaming up with the Fisk Jubilee Singers for a reimagined version of her lively song, “Jubilee.” The song was originally featured on Marks’ 2022 album, Feel Like Going Home. On Friday ...

Real history and amazing songs blend in Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s new production of “Jubilee,” which playwright and director Tazewell Thompson describes as a “nakedly a cappella” journey into ...

He took the storied Black musical group to new heights, including its first Grammy win and a National Medal of Arts. By Clay Risen Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who ...

From left, Lisa Arrindell (Ella Sheppard), Jaysen Wright (Edmund Watkins), Katherine Alexis Thomas (Minnie Tate), Zonya Love (Georgia Gordon), Greg Watkins (Benjamin Holmes) and Shaleah Adkisson ...

On November 16, 1871, a group of unknown singers — all but two of them former slaves and many of them still in their teens -- arrived at Oberlin College in Ohio to perform before a national convention ...