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This articles pertaining to music as it relates to or exists within Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
. Christian musicians are musicians who make Christian music
Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written during the last two thousand years to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith....
, such as Gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
, choral music, or Christian rock
Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by band whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christianity....
.

This list is specifically for Christian music
Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written during the last two thousand years to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith....
 performers in the Gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 genres who have either been very important to the genre, or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one that has been on a major label, but not limited to such).






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This articles pertaining to music as it relates to or exists within Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
. Christian musicians are musicians who make Christian music
Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written during the last two thousand years to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith....
, such as Gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
, choral music, or Christian rock
Christian rock

Christian rock is a form of rock music played by band whose members are Christians and who often focus the lyrics on matters concerned with the concept of the Christianity....
.

This list is specifically for Christian music
Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written during the last two thousand years to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith....
 performers in the Gospel music
Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
 genres who have either been very important to the genre, or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one that has been on a major label, but not limited to such). This list is not for musician
Musician

A musician is a person who plays or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:* An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument....
s who are also Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
, but who do not acknowledge Christian themes in their music.

Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.


A

  • Lee Roy Abernathy
    Lee Roy Abernathy

    Lee Roy Abernathy was an United States vocalist and composer....
  • Faye Adams
    Faye Adams

    Faye Adams is an United States vocalist....
  • Oleta Adams
    Oleta Adams

    Oleta Adams is an United States soul , jazz, and Gospel music singer and pianist....
  • Yolanda Adams
    Yolanda Adams

    Yolanda Adams is a Grammy Awards and Dove Awards-award winning United States Gospel music singer and radio show Host ....
  • Alabama sacred harp singers
    Alabama Sacred Harp Singers

    The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers were a sacred harp choir specializing in Gospel Music. On April 16, 1928, they recorded several songs for Columbia, amongst which "Present Joys", which was later included on Anthology of American Folk Music....
  • Mary Alessi
    Mary Alessi

    Mary Alessi is a Christian songwriter and Worship leader....
  • Charles McCallon Alexander
    Charles McCallon Alexander

    Charles McCallon Alexander , a native of East Tennessee, was a popular 19th Century gospel singer who worked the evangelistic circuit for many years....
  • Rance Allen
  • Steve Archer
    Steve Archer

    Steve Archer is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is a pioneer of the genre of Jesus music, later to become known as contemporary Christian music....
  • Vanessa Bell Armstrong
    Vanessa Bell Armstrong

    Vanessa Bell Armstrong is an award-winning gospel singer who released her debut album Peace Be Still in 1983....
  • Inez Andrews
    Inez Andrews

    Inez Andrews is an United States Gospel music singer and recording artist....


B

  • The Blackwood Brothers
    The Blackwood Brothers

    The Blackwood Brothers Quartet is an United States gospel music singing group....
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama
    The Blind Boys of Alabama

    The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel music group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind....
  • Anthony Burger
    Anthony Burger

    Anthony John Burger was an United States musician and singer, most closely associated with Southern Gospel music....
  • Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
    Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

    The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is an United States Gospel music choir based at the Brooklyn Tabernacle in downtown Brooklyn, New York City....
  • Michael Brooks
    Michael Brooks (singer)

    Michael Brooks is a keyboardist, arranger, producer, and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned . He has also worked with Vanessa R....
  • Nehemiah Hunter Brown
    Nehemiah Hunter Brown

    Nehemiah Brown is an American Gospel music singer....
  • Kim Burrell
    Kim Burrell

    Kimberly Burrell Wiley is an United States Gospel music singer from Houston, TX. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry, having only debuted in 1995, she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre, often named as "this generation's Ella Fitzgerald."...


C

  • Shirley Caesar
    Shirley Caesar

    Shirley Caesar is an American Gospel music singer. She is a multi-award winner with eleven Grammy awards and seven Dove awards to her credit. She is a graduate of Shaw University with a degree in Business Administration....
  • Byron Cage
    Byron Cage

    Byron Cage is an African-American gospel music recording artist....
  • The Caravans
    The Caravans

    The Caravans is a gospel music group that reached its peak popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, launching the careers of a number of artists, including: Delores Washington, Albertina Walker, Bessie Griffin, Cassietta George, Dorothy Norwood, Inez Andrews,Shirley Caesar, James Cleveland, and more....
  • Kurt Carr
    Kurt Carr

    Kurt Carr is an American gospel music composer and performer. While living in the city of Hartford, Connecticut he served as Minister of Music at The First Baptist Church of Hartford located at the time on Greenfield Street....
  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  • Steven Curtis Chapman
    Steven Curtis Chapman

    Steven Curtis Chapman is a Contemporary Christian musician.After starting his career in the late 80s as a songwriter, Chapman has turned into one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to this date....
  • Alvin Chea
    Alvin Chea

    Alvin Chea is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Take 6.His voice type is bass.Footnotes...
  • The Clark Sisters
    The Clark Sisters

    The Clark Sisters are an United States gospel music vocal group consisting of four sisters: Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark, Jacky Clark Chisholm, Dorinda Clark-Cole, and Karen Clark Sheard....
  • Rev. James Cleveland
    James Cleveland

    The Reverend Dr. James Cleveland was a gospel music singer, arranger, composer and, most significantly, the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound, bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel and jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs....
  • Cheryl "Coko" Clemons
    COKO

    COKO is the name of a construction toy produced by the China company Tianjin COKO Toy Co., Ltd.In 2002, the Lego Group#Trademark and patents Swiss subsidiary Interlego Aktiengesellschaft sued the COKO company for copyright infringement....
  • Marcus Cole
    Marcus Cole (singer)

    Marcus Cole is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned . In 2006, he signed with CeCe Winans' Puresprings Gospel and released his first solo album Write My Song....
  • Commissioned
    Commissioned (gospel group)

    Commissioned is an United States Gospel music group. The group recorded twelve albums over a period of seventeen years....
  • David L Cook
  • The Cook Family Singers
    The Cook Family Singers

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  • The Crabb Family
    The Crabb Family

    The Crabb Family is a Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning Southern Gospel family group from Beaver Dam, Kentucky. They have have had sixteen #1 songs on the national radio charts....
  • Beverly Crawford
    Beverly Crawford

    Beverly Crawford is an African-American gospel vocalist who is best-known for singing with the New Life Singers on Bobby Jones Gospel on the Black Entertainment Television and for having well-known songs such as "Higher in the Lord", "Praise Jehovah", and "Run to the Water"....
  • Andrae Crouch
    Andrae Crouch

    Andra? Edward Crouch , is an United States Gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter, arranger and record producer....
  • Sandra Crouch
    Sandra Crouch

    Sandra Crouch is an United States Gospel music performer, drummer and songwriter....
  • Adlan Cruz
    Adlan Cruz

    Adlan Cruz is a Christian Puerto Rican pianist, composer and producer.Cruz began playing the piano by ear at the age of three. He released his first album in 1989....


D

  • Montrell Darrett
    Montrell Darrett

    Montrell Darrett is a gospel music singer and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned .Darrett was raised in a family of six children, all of whom sang....
  • The Davis Sisters
    The Davis Sisters

    The Davis Sisters was a Gospel music group founded by Ruth Davis and featuring her sisters Thelma, Audrey and Alfreda. Imogene Greene joined the group in 1950, and was later replaced by Jackie Verdell when Greene left to join the Caravans....
  • Cedric Dent
    Cedric Dent

    Cedric Dent is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Take 6. He is currently a professor of Music Theory & Music Composition for the Middle Tennessee State University....
  • The Dixie Hummingbirds
    The Dixie Hummingbirds

    The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential United States gospel music group, spanning more than 75 years from the Jubilee quartets style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of Gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of the present era....
  • Scott L. Dalton, Drummer
  • Thomas A. Dorsey
    Thomas A. Dorsey

    Thomas Andrew Dorsey . He is known as "the father of gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom....
  • Steven W. Dalton, Bassist


E

  • Ralna English
    Ralna English

    Ralna Eve English American born singer was born in Spur, Texas, the seat of Haskell County, Texas, north of Abilene, Texas, Texas. She was famous as part of the husband & wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis both of whom were featured performers on The Lawrence Welk Show....
  • Queen Busola Oke Eleyele


F

  • Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
    Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

    The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was one of the most popular and influential post-war Gospel music quartets. Powered by the vocals of lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single "Our Father" reached the Billboard R&B charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so....
  • Maxx Frank
    Maxx Frank

    Maxx Frank is a keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned ....
  • Kirk Franklin
    Kirk Franklin

    Kirk Dwayne Franklin is an American Gospel music singer and author and is most notably known as the leader of urban contemporary gospel choirs such as the Family, God's Property and 1NC ....
  • Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin

    Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....


  • Fanuel Sedekia
  • Cassietta George
    Cassietta George

    Cassietta George was an United States gospel music vocalist, and composer. George was a member of the famous The Caravans, during the period stretching from the late '50s to the mid-'60s, the Caravans went unrivaled as the nation's most popular touring gospel group....
  • The Golden Gate Quartet
    The Golden Gate Quartet

    The Golden Gate Quartet is the most successful of all of the African-American gospel music groups who sang in the Jubilee quartets style. Founded as the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet in Norfolk, Virginia in 1934 by Robert Ford, A.C....
  • Jade Trini Goring
    Jade Trini Goring

    Jade Trini Goring, , formerly known by the stage name, Jade Trini, is an United States of America contemporary gospel music singer. Goring was also briefly a member of the electronic dance music/house music/old school hip hop group, Mantronix, in 1991....
  • Amy Grant
    Amy Grant

    Amy Lee Grant is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, author, media personality and occasional actress, best known for her contemporary Christian music....
  • Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • Bessie Griffin
    Bessie Griffin

    Bessie Griffin was an African American Gospel music singer.Born Arlette B. Broil in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was steeped in church music as a child....
  • Greater Vision
    Greater Vision

    Greater Vision is a Southern Gospel trio founded in 1990 by Gerald Wolfe, Mark Trammell, and Chris Allman, and often accompanied by pianist Stan Whitmire ....
  • Guy & Ralna
    Guy & Ralna

    Guy & Ralna is an United States singing act that appeared as regulars on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1970 to 1982....


H

  • Deitrick Haddon
    Deitrick Haddon

    Deitrick Haddon is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and producer....
  • Danniebelle Hall
    Danniebelle Hall

    Danniebelle Hall , gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter....
  • Fred Hammond
    Fred Hammond

    Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer....
  • Harvest
    Harvest (band)

    Harvest is the name of the Christian band founded in Lindale, Texas, Texas by Jerry Williams in 1977. The Strategic planning#Mission statements and vision statements of Harvest was to see 100 million people come to know Jesus Born again Christianity through the band's music Religious ministry ....
  • Edwin Hawkins
    Edwin Hawkins

    Edwin Hawkins is a Grammy Award-winning United States gospel music and rhythm and blues musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger....
  • Tramaine Hawkins
  • Walter Hawkins
    Walter Hawkins

    Walter Hawkins is an United States gospel music singer born May 18, 1949 in Oakland, California. One of gospel music's most legendary figures, Bishop Walter Hawkins is one of the most beloved figures in contemporary Gospel Music today....
  • Jake Hess
    Jake Hess

    Jake Hess was a Grammy Award-winning gospel music singer in the southern United States.He was born Manchild Hess December 24, 1927, in Limestone County, Alabama....
  • Ebony Holland
    Ebony Holland

    Ebony Holland is a Gospel singer and a founding member of the gospel group Virtue . She currently performs in the group with her sisters Heather Martin and Karima Kibble....
  • Guy Hovis
    Guy Hovis

    Guy Lee Hovis Jr. is an United States-born singer who was one of the featured performers of television's The Lawrence Welk Show, but is best known as one half of the singing couple Guy & Ralna....
  • Himanshu
  • Ernie Haase
    Ernie Haase

    Ernie Haase was the tenor vocalist with the Cathedral Quartet from 1990 through 1999.After the Cathedral Quartet retired, he had a solo career for several years....
  • Happy Joseph Kivuyo


I

  • Israel Houghton
    Israel Houghton

    Israel Houghton is a Grammy Award winning, Christian worship leader and singer, mostly known for his cross-cultural style of Christian music that fuses elements from Gospel music, Jazz and Rock ....
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J

  • Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson

    Mahalia Jackson was an United States gospel music singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music"....
  • Blind Willie Johnson
    Blind Willie Johnson

    "Blind" Willie Johnson was an United States singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues music and spirituals. While the lyrics of all of his songs were religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions....
  • Mitchell Jones
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  • J.Moss


K

  • John P. Kee
    John P. Kee

    Pastor John P. Kee is an United States gospel music singer and pastor...
  • Joey Kibble
    Joey Kibble

    Joey Kibble is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Take 6. He was born in Buffalo, New York] on May 26, 1971....
  • Karima Kibble
    Karima Kibble

    Karima Kibble is a Gospel singer, and a founding member of the gospel group Virtue ....
  • Mark Kibble
    Mark Kibble

    Mark Kibble is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Take 6.References...
  • levy solonka


L

  • Doyle Lawson
    Doyle Lawson

    Doyle Lawson is an United States bluegrass music and gospel musician. Doyle is best known as an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 5-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver....
  • Dorothy Love Coates
    Dorothy Love Coates

    Dorothy Love Coates was an United States gospel music singer....
  • Donald Lawrence
    Donald Lawrence

    Donald Lawrence is an United States gospel music songwriter, record producer and artist....


M

  • Heather Martin
    Heather Martin

    Heather Martin is a Gospel singer, and a current member of the gospel group Virtue with her sisters Ebony Holland and Karima Kibble....
  • Mary Mary
    Mary Mary

    This article is about the musical duo. For other uses, see Mary Mary .Mary Mary is a two-time Grammy award winning United States gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell ....
  • Judith Mcallister
  • Donnie McClurkin
    Donnie McClurkin

    Donnie McClurkin is a Grammy Award-winning United States gospel music singer and Minister ....
  • Claude V. McKnight III
    Claude V. McKnight III

    Claude V. McKnight, III is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Take 6.He is the older brother of R&B singer Brian McKnight....
  • Barry McGuire
    Barry McGuire

    Barry McGuire is an United States singer-songwriter....
  • Chris Marion
    Chris Marion

    Chris Marion is an American musician best known for being a member of Little River Band and for his contribution to the gospel music industry....
  • Roberta Martin
    Roberta Martin

    Roberta Martin was an United States Gospel music composer, singer, pianist, arranger and choral organizer, helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group, The Roberta Martin Singers....
  • Men of Standard
    Men of Standard

    Men of Standard is an United States Gospel music group....
  • Mighty Clouds of Joy
    Mighty Clouds of Joy

    The Mighty Clouds of Joy is an American Gospel music quartet....
  • Mississippi Mass Choir
    Mississippi Mass Choir

    The Mississippi Mass Choir is an American gospel music choir based in Jackson, Mississippi....
  • Ericson Alexander Molano
    Ericson Alexander Molano

    Ericson Alexander Molano is a Gospel Christian singer. He became famous when the hit song, "Dios Manda Lluvia" came out. He has a Production company, Jehova-Nisi Producciones; where he is President and General Director....
  • J. Moss
  • Nicole Mullen
  • Martha Munizzi
    Martha Munizzi

    Martha Munizzi is an internationally acclaimed and award winning Gospel music singer, songwriter, author, and actress....
  • William H. Murphy
  • Henrie Mutuku
    Henrie Mutuku

    Henrie Mutuku is a multi award winning Kenyan Gospel music....


N

  • Aaron Neville
    Aaron Neville

    Aaron Neville is an United States soul music and Rhythm and blues singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts....
  • Newsboys
    Newsboys

    Newsboys is a Grammy Award-nominated Christian pop rock band . The band was formed in Australia in 1985 and has been one of the most popular and best-selling Christian music artists of the past two decades....
  • Nichole Nordeman
    Nichole Nordeman

    Nichole Nordeman is a nine time Dove Award winning Contemporary Christian music American singer....


P

  • Washington Phillips
    Washington Phillips

    Washington Phillips was a pioneering gospel performer in the 1920s.Born January 11, 1880 in Texas, Phillips recorded sixteen songs, some of which amount to highly specific and detailed gospel sermons....
  • Chris Poole
  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  • Billy Preston
    Billy Preston

    William Everett "Billy" Preston was an United States soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little...
  • Twila Paris
    Twila Paris

    Twila Paris Wright is a Contemporary Christian Music songwriter, author, vocalist and pianist....


R

  • Lynda Randle
    Lynda Randle

    Lynda Tait Randle was born in 1962 and grew up in the inner city of Washington, DC. She is most well known as a Gaither_Homecoming#Homecoming Artists and markets a number of singing videos featuring her mellow alto voice in gospel music, particularly southern gospel....
  • Karl Reid
  • Woody Rock
    Woody Rock

    Woody Rock is an African-American singer and musician. Woody is best known as one of the founding members of RIAA certification R&B act Dru Hill, a group for which he has songwriting and sung lead on songs such as "5 Steps", "April Showers", and "Angel"....
  • Thurman Ruth aka Thermon Ruth, T. Ruth
    Thurman Ruth (promoter)

    Thurman Ruth , who got his start in vaudeville in 1927, was a gospel singer, deejay and concert promoter, and a forefather of such rhythm and blues producers as Ralph Bass....
  • Ron Kenoly
    Ron Kenoly

    Ron Kenoly is a Christian worship leader whose express mission is "to create an environment for the manifest presence of God". His musical style is one of jubilant praise and individual excellence on musical instruments....


S

  • Ira D. Sankey
    Ira D. Sankey

    Ira D. Sankey , known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, was an United Statesn gospel music singer and composer, associated with evangelist Dwight L....
  • Marvin Sapp
    Marvin Sapp

    Marvin Sapp is an American Gospel music singer, recording with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a solo career. Sapp is also the Founder and Senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan....
  • Briana Scott
    Briana Scott

    Briana Scott is an United States Contemporary Christian Music solo singer, songwriter and worship leader. ...
  • Marilyn Sellars
    Marilyn Sellars

    Marilyn Sellars is an United States country music and Gospel music singer who had several hit single during the mid 1970s on Mega Records, most notably the original version of "One Day At A Time" in 1974....
  • The Sensational Nightingales
  • Karen Clark Sheard
    Karen Clark Sheard

    Karen Clark Sheard is a three-time Grammy Award winning United States gospel music singer, songwriter, member of seminal group The Clark Sisters, and mother of contemporary gospel singer Kierra "Kiki" Sheard....
  • Kierra "Kiki" Sheard
  • The Soul Stirrers
    The Soul Stirrers

    One of the most popular and influential gospel music groups of the 20th century, the Soul Stirrers were pioneers in the development of the quartet style of gospel and, without intending it, in the creation of soul music, the secular music that owed much to gospel....
  • Sounds of Blackness
    Sounds of Blackness

    Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz....
  • Richard Smallwood
    Richard Smallwood

    Richard Smallwood is an United States Gospel music artist born in Atlanta, Georgia who formed The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1977 in Washington, DC....
  • The Statler Brothers
  • The Staple Singers
    The Staple Singers

    The Staple Singers were an United States Gospel music, soul music, and R&B singing group. Pops Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis Staples ....
  • Keith Staten
  • Candi Staton
    Candi Staton

    Candi Staton-Sussewell is an American Soul music and Gospel music singer. She is best known for her 1976 in music disco chart-topper "Young Hearts Run Free"....
  • Ruben Studdard
    Ruben Studdard

    Christopher Ruben Studdard is an United States pop music, contemporary R&B, and gospel music singer. He rose to fame as winner of the American Idol of American Idol....
  • The Swan Silvertones


T

  • Take 6
    Take 6

    Take 6 is an influential United States a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy Awards wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two NAACP Image Award nom...
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneering Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early Rock music accompaniment....
  • David Thomas
    David Thomas (Take 6)

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  • Charles Davis Tillman
    Charles Davis Tillman

    Charles Davis Tillman ?also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman?was a popularizer of the gospel song....
  • Tonéx
    Tonéx

    Anthony Charles Williams II , better known by his stage name TONEX , is an United States singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, dancer, record producer, and preacher....
  • Trin-i-tee 5:7
    Trin-i-tee 5:7

    Trin-i-tee 5:7 is a gospel trio from New Orleans, Louisiana. The group was marketed as a gospel alternative to R&B girl groups such as Destiny's Child and TLC ....
  • Tye Tribbett


V

  • Yolanda Vadiz
    Yolanda Vadiz

    Yolanda Vadiz was a Puerto Rico soprano. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico and her Master degree in Manhattan School of Music in New York....
  • Vizyon


W

  • Hezekiah Walker
    Hezekiah Walker

    Bishop Hezekiah Xzavier Walker, Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning gospel music artist; founder & leader of the Love Fellowship Choir, and Pastor & Bishop of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle, with locations in Brooklyn, New York and Bensalem, Pennsylvania in the United States of America....
  • Albertina Walker
    Albertina Walker

    Albertina Walker is an African-American gospel music singer....
  • Clara Ward
    Clara Ward

    Clara Ward was a Gospel music artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers....
  • Mervyn Warren
    Mervyn Warren

    Mervyn Warren is an American film composer, record producer, lyricist, songwriter, music arranger, pianist and vocalist....
  • Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick

    Dionne Warwick , is an American singer, actress, activist, United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, former United States Ambassador of Health, and humanitarian....
  • Thomas Whitfield
    Thomas Whitfield

    Thomas Anthony Whitfield was an United States gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, choir director and producer best known for helping to shape the fabric of contemporary gospel music with his elaborate choral arrangements and the merging of musical styles ranging from jazz to classical into traditional gospel foundations....
  • Marva Whitney
    Marva Whitney

    Marva Whitney is an African American funk singer. She is considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas....
  • Hank Williams
  • Marion Williams
    Marion Williams

    Marion Williams was an American Gospel music singer....
  • Michelle Williams
    Michelle Williams (singer)

    Tenitra Michelle Williams , commonly known as Michelle Williams, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is better known for being one third of the successful contemporary R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the best-selling female group of all time according to the World Music Awards and Sony BMG....
  • The Winans Family
    Winans family

    The Winans family is an African-American family of Gospel music artists from Detroit, Michigan, Michigan....
    • The Winans
      The Winans

      The Winans are an United States Gospel music quartet from Detroit, Michigan consisting of brothers Marvin, Carvin, Michael and Ronald Winans family....
    • BeBe & CeCe Winans
      BeBe & CeCe Winans

      BeBe & CeCe Winans is an United States Gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe Winans & CeCe Winans Winans family are the seventh and eighth of Winans family ten children, most of whom have had successful Gospel music careers....
    • BeBe Winans
      BeBe Winans

      Benjamin "BeBe" Winans is a Grammy Award-winning gospel music and Rhythm and blues singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists....
    • CeCe Winans
      CeCe Winans

      Priscilla Winans Love and known professionally as CeCe Winans, is an United States Gospel music singer and winner of numerous Grammy Awards and Stellar Awards....
    • Mario Winans
      Mario Winans

      Mario Winans is a popular American R&B singer, songwriter and music producer also a member of gospel music's most notable family The Winans by marriage as he is the son of Bishop Ronald E....
    • Marvin Winans
      Marvin Winans

      Marvin Winans is an American gospel music singer from Detroit, Michigan....
    • Ron Winans
    • Vickie Winans
      Vickie Winans

      Vickie Winans is a United States Gospel music recording artist....
    • Timothy Wright


See also

  • Gospel music
    Gospel music

    Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  • Southern Gospel
    Southern Gospel

    Southern Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  • Urban contemporary gospel
    Urban contemporary gospel

    Urban contemporary Gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  • Gospel blues
  • Worship music