We Remember Rev. Timothy Wright
Unfortunately we bring you bad news regarding Reverend Timothy Wright. According to music agent Will Bogle, via the Associated Press, the minister and gospel great has died. He was 61.
Wright passed away early Thursday at Bronx Veterans Hospital from injuries suffered in a car crash last summer that killed his wife and grandson.
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40th Annual GMA Dove Awards
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – April 24, 2009 — Dove Awards were handed out last night in Nashville for the 40th Annual GMA Dove Awards with singer/songwriter Brandon Heath and worship band Casting Crowns earning the most awards. Steven Curtis Chapman was honored as Artist of the Year and Tenth Avenue North received the Dove Award for New Artist which for the first time were voted on by both the gospel/Christian music industry and its fans.
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Spotlight On Holy Boy
Gospel music at its most powerful, pushes the listener out of their circumstance and into the presence of God. Such is the case with the music ministry of Alabama born-and-bred singer/songwriter/musician HB (Holy Boy), whose unmistakably urban delivery of present-day psalms moves audiences to their feet for praise and to their knees for worship. HB sings with arresting clarity on “Out of Time”, his debut release on Next Era Music /Universal Music Christian Group. Gospel music fans everywhere will be struck by his warm tenor vocals, which add southern sensibilities to modern gospel.
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