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Gospel star James Fortune can be seen here next to his wife Cheryl Fortune, signing his new contract with Light Records.  Fortune moves from Black Smoke Records to a stacked Light Records roster that includes Shirley Caesar, Ricky Dilliard, J.J. ...

Gospel power house and member of ‘the Clark’s Sisters’ Dorinda Clark-Cole has launched a new jewelry line offering jewelry, earrings, pendants among other things.  She’s calling the collection “Dorinda Jewelry Selections.”  No word yet on her motivation behind the jewelry offerings.  The ...

Once again, Joe Pace has penned and released another Sunday Morning hit song, “Great Jehovah God”, the follow up single to “And We Are Glad”. A clear-cut hit, Great Jehovah God will most likely be sung by church choirs and ...

Sirius XM Radio will host rising gospel star, Tonya Baker, in an exclusive in-studio concert this Friday, April 15 @ 1:00 pm ET on Praise, SIRIUS channel 68 and XM channel 33. The Praise channel program director called Baker’s performance, ...

Riding high on the success of her smash hit “It’s About Time For A Miracle!”, Grammy winner Beverly Crawford has been added as a featured performer for Verizon’s 2011 How Sweet The Sound National Competition! With over $100,000 in prizes, ...

DeJuaii Pace of the Anointed Pace Sisters has admitted to being a 45-year-old lesbian virgin. She made the admission during a taping of Addicted To Food,  on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. In an interview with The Root, The Gospel singer ...

Chairman and CEO of the BET network, Debra Lee, is no stranger to receiving negative comments regarding programming on the network. For quite some time, BET was under scrutiny and accused of creating a lineup that wasn’t showing a positive ...

Mary Mary has got “Something Big.” Their latest album debuted at #10 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart with 42,390 units sold.  Additionally, Kirk Franklin’s second week on the charts found him at #9 after his first week debut at ...

Gospel music great Fred Hammond recently announced he is pursuing a Jazz career.  In the audio clip below Fred Hammond tells CeCe McGhee of Praise Philly.com that he is thinking about doing a double CD one disk with jazz and the other ...

SR VP & General Manager of Light Records, James Robinson announced a marketing and distribution agreement with JAMES FORTUNE & FIYA, to bring his new label, FIYA World Music to Light Records and eOne Distribution. The three year deal, which ...