The gospel music world has lost the legendary voice of Joe Ligon, founder and lead singer of The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Ligon died over the weekend at the age of 80 and the Facebook page of the Mighty ...
Princeton University Gospel Ensemble, also known as PUGE, reformed at the start of the 2023-24 academic school year. But, this recent iteration is just the newest chapter in a history of student-run ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I think about gospel music that truly shaped lives, The Clark Sisters are always front and center in my mind. Their voices aren’t just powerful—they’re anointed. Their harmonies ...
Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...
Bruce Watson has always been drawn to the sacred and profane, spiritual sounds and the music of the devil. As a longtime executive with Mississippi’s Fat Possum Records label, he’s been a pivotal ...
Reporting from Nashville, Tenn. — Singer Joe Ligon, the dynamic frontman of the Grammy-winning gospel group Mighty Clouds of Joy, has died. He was 80. Ligon died Sunday in Georgia, his manager, Isaac ...