Paris Barclay's documentary confronts the lifelong struggles with identity that shadowed Preston's career ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Smallwood, the legendary, Grammy-nominated gospel singer, songwriter, composer and pianist, has died at 77 years old.

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe continues its "Soul of a People" theatre season with "How I Got Over: A Gospel Revue." The ...

Joe Ligon, whose raspy, throbbing vocals and preaching style helped make the Mighty Clouds of Joy one of the most successful gospel quartets of all time, died Sunday. He was 80. Pastor Isaac Lindsey, ...

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On experimental bassoonist, composer and performance artist Joy Guidry's latest album, music is prayer. "I see each of these songs as prayers — as I see improvisation also as spiritual practice," she ...

The prism of Black beauty turned and turned, and my mental vision board of heaven’s angels filled up with Dottie Peoples in the spangled armor of God, Mahalia Jackson’s elegant countenance, the Pace ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Singer Joe Ligon, the dynamic front man of the Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, has died. He was 80. Joe Ligon of the gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy.

Reporting from Nashville, Tenn. — Singer Joe Ligon, the dynamic frontman of the Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, has died. He was 80. Ligon died Sunday in Georgia, his manager, Isaac ...