YOUR TALENT IS JUST THE BEGINNING! Avoid common mistakes and make the most of your opportunities. From basic industry concepts to the ministry skills so necessary in Gospel music, industry veteran Monica Coates discusses it all honestly and with an eye toward practical application. If you’re considering a career in Gospel music as an artist or industry executive, this book is for you. Monica Coates is a veteran of the Gospel music industry with experience in artist management, publicity, radio promotions and A&R. Over the course of her diverse career, she has worked at the top Gospel labels—EMI Gospel and Verity—and with a variety of artists, including Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin, Hezekiah Walker and Joann Rosario.

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Revised with 2 significant tracks and artwork not previously included. When Elvis was growing up, the Presley family attended the First Assembly Of God church in Tupelo and subsequently in Memphis. Elvis’s music was greatly influenced by attending these churches, but reglious music came to Elvis in many shapes and forms. Religious songs were often part of the repertoire for country stars on the Grand Ol’ Opry – a syndicated radio Nashville broadcast that the Presley’s nearly always tuned into on Saturdays. As a teen, Elvis and his friends would sneak into churches in the black neighborhoods to catch the lively music of a different musical heritage. The welcoming congregation and uplifting sound opened up Elvis’s understanding of the multiple facets of reglious music. ULTIMATE GOSPEL provides testament to Elvis’s musical excellence and acknowledges the priceless contribution of the talented songwriters, musicians and producers involved.

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For fifty years, Johnny Cash towered above the American musical landscape. In a career spanning six decades, the self-proclaimed Man in Black recorded more than 1,500 songs, was enshrined in Halls of

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With an unprecedented full circle line-up of all-star voices, Gospel Time Records presents this quintessential collection of favorites with all the excellence and spirit that has defined Southern Gospel Music’s legacy for more than a half-century. 200 Golden Years Of Gospel Music Volume’s 1 – 4 delivers classics by your favorite award winning artists with sterling vocals and amazing harmonies once again raising the standards for decades to come. The voices, such greats as Jake Hess & The Jordanaires, The Speer Family, Henry Slaughter, The Blackwood Brothers, The Florida Boys and Wendy Bagwell & the Sunliters just to name a few represent men and women who have tested the truth of these powerful messages over time and found them to be thoroughly trustworthy – a treasury of songs worth celebrating!

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2009 two CD set. WOW Gospel 2009 continues in the trend of raising the bar for Gospel compilations each and every year. Chock-full of the songs that reigned on Gospel radio’s airwaves for the past 12 months, this double disc set is bursting at the seams with hits, including music from Marvin Sapp, Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, Byron Cage, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Yolanda Adams and many others.

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The power of the gospel choir comes to life in this uplifting and spiritual holiday collection by today’s top gospel stars including Kirk Franklin and the Family, Patti LaBelle, Israel & New Breed, Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker and Donald Lawrence. Voices: A Gospel Choir Christmas features inspirational choir arrangements of holiday classics together in one special collection, offered at a value price.

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The first Christmas installment of the most exciting Gospel compilation series hits stores September 25, 2007. WOW Gospel Christmas is the ultimate holiday collection for this Christmas season. Patterned after the WOW GOSPEL collection, WOW Gospel Christmas features holiday favorites from the top selling Gospel artists.

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You do not just hear gospel music, you feel it.
At the heights of its power, this uniquely American art form connects the spirit of the writer, performer and listener with a truth much higher than presents travails. The notes, rhythms, and lyrics paint a picture of the ongoing tale of struggle, persecution, redemption and freedom. Blues, rock and roll, r&b, country and even modern hip hop and rap music have all been influenced by the sound and soul of gospel. It has faced down the bleak days of slavery, depression, violence and fear with a tear in its eye and a promise on its lips.
On Oh Happy Day, a wide array of contemporary artists has been paired with some of today’s leading gospel voices and legendary choirs. Together they explore a batch of gospel standards and main-stream hits that were clearly inspired by the old soulful sound and feel of gospel.
It’s an all-star party that just might take you someplace higher if you let it.