Blogged By: De De Tillman; International Celebrity Blogger
Source:ABC 7 News
Posted: Friday February 22, 2013 @ 8:36 p.m PST
Cleotha Staples of the gospel group The Staple Singers, died Thursday at age 78. She was at her Chicago home and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for the past decade, said family friend and music publicist Bill Carpenter.
RIP- WE LOVE YOU CLEOTHA
Blogged By: De De Tillman
Media Credit: pannellctp
Source: The Golden Wings Quartet Website
Posted: Monday May 21, 2012 @4:10 p.m PST
The Golden Wings Quartet was established in 1970 in Tupelo, Mississippi. The members consist of James Parks, Toby L. Coker, and Tyrone Parks.
The Golden Wings Quartet has spread the gospel through songs throughout the United States and abroad. For over 30 years, the Golden Wings have enjoyed much success playing many major concerts, and most recently a recording on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show.
This is the group eighth recording and they have also shared the stage with Lee Williams and The Spiritual QC’s, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, George Dean and the Gospel Four, and others. The Golden Wings are best known for their smashing hit, “You Got To Leave It Here.” They have released one project titled “Get In Touch” and in the process of releasing their second.
The group was awarded a Certificated of Outstanding Achievements and named 2002 New Gospel Quartet Artist of The Year by the National Association of Gospel Promoters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Keep Blessing Me: Live from Muskegon Heights, MI Tobey Coker (vocals); Michael Penson (guitar, background vocals); Alton Hollis (guitar); Ayatti Tippett (strings, horns, Fender Rhodes piano); Nicholas Jones (piano); Patrick Hopson (organ); Fred Edwards (drums); Cornelius Redman, Tyrone Parks (background vocals).
“You’ve Got To Leave It Here! Live In Concert” recording took place at the Temple of Compassion and Deliverance in Tupelo, Mississippi in 2004. It was initially recorded for the MARS Record label. The group is now on the LowRush Music label. LowRush released this video in 2006.
*I had the extreme honor of speaking to the warm, friendly, down to earth, spirit-filled Mr. James Parks of the group and looking forward to meeting him and the group when they perform Friday June 8, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
The Golden Wings Quartet Members
The Golden Wings Quartet Music
The Golden Wings Quartet Booking Information
Blogged By: La Tray
Source & Story Credit: CNN – Jason Hanna
Media Credit: Photo (CNN ) / Video (WXYZ)
Posted: Thursday May 17, 2012 @1:20 a.m. PST
Detroit pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans, who delivered the eulogy at pop star Whitney Houston’s funeral this year, was robbed and carjacked at a gas station in his home city Wednesday afternoon, CNN affiliates WXYZ and WDIV report.
Winans, pastor at Perfecting Church on Detroit’s east side, had just walked out of the Detroit station’s convenience store and was about to pump gas into his SUV when four men exited the store and attacked him, he told WXYZ.
The attackers kicked him and took his wallet and his purple 2012 Infiniti QX56 SUV, he said. Winans suffered cuts and bruises to his face, hands and arms, and his pants were torn, WDIV reported.
“This kind of nonsense just has to stop … it’s just the savageness of what’s happening in the streets. We just have to take a look at ourselves and say this has to stop,” he told WXYZ.
Detroit police are investigating, WXYZ reported.
Winans delivered Houston’s eulogy at her February funeral in New Jersey. He also officiated at Houston’s 1992 marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown.
Blogged By: La Tray
Source & Story Credit: NPR Staff
Media Credit: Photo (NPR – Marvin Sapp) – Video / Audio (jounzun44) (MarvinSappVEVO)
Posted: Sunday April 29, 2012 @1:50 p.m. PST
“Never Would Have Made It” is the biggest gospel hit of the past decade, and the man who sings it, Marvin Sapp, is quite possibly the biggest name in gospel today — a development that still surprises the Michigan pastor.
“I’m blown away by how that song has had the impact that it has had on so many people,” Sapp tells NPR’s Guy Raz. “All of us, I’ve learned, have gone through ‘never would have made it’ moments, and that’s the reason why I believe that it resonates so strongly in so many people’s lives.”
Sapp’s last record made its debut at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart, the highest debut for a gospel record in half a century. Since then, he has lived through the tragic loss of his wife, MaLinda, to cancer in 2010. Sapp says he wanted to “sit back and just give up” after her death, but that a comment from his then-11-year-old daughter Madison convinced him to keep going.
“The day after she passed, that morning at 6 a.m. my kids were up getting ready for school,” Sapp says. “And I was like, ‘You don’t have to go to school today — Mommy just went to be home with the Lord yesterday.’ And she said, ‘No, no, Daddy. We’ve got to go to school because Mommy would want us to keep it moving.’
“That’s what we’ve been doing ever since, me and my children — we’ve been keeping it moving,” Sapp says. “What I’ve learned is the best way to honor someone who has passed on is to live.”
