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Stellar Awards 2024 Nominees Artist of the Year: Donald Lawrence Erica Campbell Pastor Mike Jr. Tye Tribbett Song of the Year: “Able” – Jonathan McReynolds “Feel Alright (Blessed)” – Erica Campbell “It’s Morning” – Latrice Pace “Only One Night Tho (Live)” – Tye Tribbett Male Artist of the Year: Jonathan McReynolds Melvin Crispell III Pastor Mike Jr. Tye Tribbett Albertina Walker Female Artist of the Year: Erica Campbell Jekalyn Carr Kierra Sheard-Kelly Maurette Brown Clark Duo/Chorus of the Year: Anthony Brown and group therAPy JJ Hairston Maverick City Music The Walls Group New Artist of the ..read more

NASHVILLE, TENN. (May 13, 2024) – The 11th Annual K-LOVE Fan Awards have announced the nominees for this year’s award ceremony. Exclusively announced by Billboard, fans can participate by visiting klovefanawards.com to vote for their favorite artist beginning at 6p CT May 13 through 6pm CT May 24th. With four nominations, Brandon Lake leads, followed by Anne Wilson, Elevation Worship, Matthew West, Phil Wickham and TobyMac, all of whom garnered three nominations each. Housefires featuring JWLKRS and Ryan Ellis as well as Stephen McWhirter earned their first-time nomination for Song of The Year ..read more

“Agree” James Johnson Jr. From the Blacksmoke Music Worldwide EP You Made Me (EP release date: March 8, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich There’s a lot to like about “Agree,” the new single by James Johnson Jr. First, it’s the singer-songwriter’s crystal-clear and flexible tenor, which injects the right amount of emotion in his prayer for the Lord’s intercession during such a time as this. By the song’s apex, Johnson pleads with an evangelist’s zeal while not overdoing it for the sake of overdoing it. Then there’s the lyric hook, “We agree on a miracle,” which sounds plucked from a sermon or at leas ..read more

Minister Redeemed Love Did It Independent (release date: June 3, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Minister Redeemed (Elder Thaddeus K. Bruce), best known for his single “That’s Not My Name Anymore,” released an album last June called Love Did It. It’s a concise and personal celebration of the love of Jesus that, through his sacrificial death and resurrection, brings new life. Bruce’s stage name is appropriate. A crack cocaine addiction derailed his potentially-lucrative career in pro basketball and spiraled his life downward for some two decades. After rehabilitation and a spiritual restoration ..read more

“All Is Well” Troy Sneed feat. Trey Sneed Emtro Gospel (release date: May 17, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Similar to Natalie Cole’s “unforgettable” recorded duet with her late father Nat, Trey Sneed collaborates with his late father, gospel artist and record company owner Troy Sneed, on “All Is Well.” This heartwarming remastering and overdubbing of Troy’s 2012 gospel ballad opens with the original verse and chorus: Troy shaking his head over financial problems and disappearing friends. Just as he is ready to throw in the towel, he gives his problems over to Jesus and “all is well.” The second ..read more

“Share the Load” Eric Lee Brumley From the Old Bear Records album Electric Chair (single release date: March 1, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Muscle Shoals-style country rock meets gospel soul in Eric Lee Brumley’s “Share the Load.” With a refrain and sentiment that echo the Band’s “The Weight,” “Share the Load” is a reminder to let go and let God or, as Brumley sings it, when the road gets rough and rocky, let Jesus share the load. The song is based on a letter of encouragement to Brumley’s father while he was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. The song has plenty of Americana spice ..read more

“I Know a Man” Charles Jones Estone Music (release date: April 27, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich “I Know a Man” by Macon, Georgia, singer-songwriter Charles Jones contains lyrical echoes of Brother Joe May’s 1950 hit “Do You Know Him,” but the melody is wholly different. As for the arrangement, instead of oozing with May’s carefree buoyance, is as dramatic and emotional as the conversion experience. Jones sings his personal testimony with passion as a team of treble singers answers his calls. Engineer Zach Berry’s stinging guitar licks flash like lightning. Since his first solo single for the lo ..read more

“The Blood” Paul Porter & Melvin Williams From the Marxan-Blackberry Records album The Kings of Quartet Vol. 1 By Robert M. Marovich Two of the Magnolia State’s top quartet lead singers, Paul Porter of the Christianaires and Melvin Williams of the Williams Brothers, join forces on a “blood” song. Written by Williams, “The Blood” makes reference to the chestnut “I Know It Was the Blood” in its lyrics but that’s where the similarity stops. An unmistakable quartet bounce serves as the funky backdrop as the two leads have a musical conversation on the meaning of the crucifixion of Jesus. While ..read more

Lawrence Hancock See Me Through Independent (release date: April 19, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Christian hip hop artist Bishop Lawrence Hancock’s tenth studio album, See Me Through, is a litany of spiritual emotion channeled through a moody atmosphere reminiscent of Phil Collins’s debut solo hit “In the Air Tonight.” Even Hancock’s spontaneous pleading evoke Collins’s own on the iconic song. Consistent with his prior albums, Hancock’s musical ethos is stream-of-consciousness prayer closet lyricism set to repetitive and hypnotic but subdued electronica, the totality of which borders on perfor ..read more