Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago’s Anthem “Awesome” Enters at #1 on Amazon

Inspired People/EMI Gospel GRAMMY^® Award-winning songwriter, and recording artist Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Chicago Live’s hit praise and worship anthem, “Awesome,” enters at #1 as the Best Selling Christian/Gospel Song on Amazon and #10 on iTunes Top 200 Christian/Gospel Songs chart.  The single moves to #8 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart.  Charles Jenkins Presents Fellowship Chicago Live: The Best of Both Worlds will be in stores and online everywhere on June 12, 2012.

Jenkins will kick-off the promo tour on May 18 at the I Hear Music Conference at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The tour will resume in Atlanta on Monday, June 4 (see promo dates below—more dates and locations will be added in the coming weeks). Jenkins will also be a featured artist at the Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Conference on Wednesday, June 27, in Atlanta and during the ESSENCE Music Festival weekend on July 6^th, 7^th and 8^th in New Orleans.

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Other key promo events include a CD release party in Chicago at the House of Hope on Monday, June 11 featuring special guest artists Karen Clark Sheard and Bishop Paul S. Morton, (who also appears on the CD).  The promo tour will include other key press, radio, retail, church and conference events.

Monday, June 4, 2012                                  Atlanta, GA

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012                                  Atlanta, GA

Wednesday, June 6, 2012                             Chicago, IL

Thursday, June 7, 2012                                 Atlanta, GA

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Friday, June 8, 2012                                      Chicago, IL

Saturday, June 9, 2012                                  Chicago, IL

Monday, June, 11, 2012                                 Chicago, IL

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012                                 Houston, TX

Wednesday, June 13, 2012                            Baltimore, MD/D.C.

Thursday, June 14, 2012                               Philadelphia, PA

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Friday, June 15, 2012                                    New York, NY

Saturday, June 16, 2012                                Chicago, IL

Wednesday, June 27, 2012                            Atlanta, GA

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Friday, July 6, 2012                                       New Orleans, LA

Saturday, July 7, 2012                                   New Orleans, LA

Sunday, July 8, 2012                                     New Orleans, LA

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Friday, July 13, 2012                                     Indianapolis, IN

Thursday, August 2, 2012                              Philadelphia, PA

Saturday, August 4, 2012                              Atlanta, GA

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Inspired People and EMI/Christian Music Group recently signed an exclusive worldwide distribution agreement. Jenkins, the senior pastor of the legendary Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, continues a long musical tradition at Fellowship, which released 25 albums under the leadership of Jenkins’ predecessor, Reverend Clay Evans.

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Jenkins believes that music can be the basis of an urban Christian movement that attracts people in ways that many traditional mediums cannot. “There are opportunities to create amazing music and to create a meaningful movement around that music,” he says. “For us, this is not just a CD; it is a movement for God.”

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