Reblogged from Mark Weber Music Blog: Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco Music and one of the top 10 most successful women in the history of popular music as we know it, has died at the age of 63, after battling cancer. She was best known for her many 1970s hits, from “Love To Love [...]
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Donna Summer, Queen of Disco Music, has died
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/17/2012
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Marvin Winans carjacked but okay
According to Sheilah Belle, Pastor Marvin Winans was assaulted and carjacked this afternoon at a gas station in Detroit. It happened around 3:20 and the suspects got away with his vehicle, stole his rolex, cash and his cellphone. He also suffered a few cuts and bruises, but he IS okay.
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/16/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/marvin-winans-carjacked-but-okay/
The final Cornerstone Festival
What do you get when you combine an awful economy and a diminished music business where artists are asking fans to pay for music to get recorded because traditional labels have pretty much disappeared, along with CD racks at your local stores? You get a radical downsizing of all the good things in life you [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/16/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/the-final-cornerstone-festival/
Christafari auditions musicians this June
Dear friends, please spread the word that Christafari and Vanessa Mardueño (Produced by Christafari) are auditioning musicians! Christafari is currently auditioning a rhythm guitarist, and Vanessa Mardueño is auditioning keyboardists and drummers. Auditions for Christafari will take place June 3rd from 1pm to 5pm at 11 Lantana Place, Rolling Hills Estates, Ca. 90274 If you [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/12/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/christafari-auditions-musicians-this-june/
Adjoa Skinner and the ten year keyboard in Ghana
Written by Pam Walck Give away my keyboard, are you kidding me? That’s pretty expensive, definitely in the thousand dollar range. An hour earlier, I looked around my spare bedroom and my eyes came to rest on the keyboard. Looking at it, I felt inspired—almost God-driven to give the musical instrument to Emily. That’s pretty [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/11/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/adjoa-skinner-and-the-ten-year-keyboard-in-ghana/
Strength in numbers: four of Black Gospel’s most famous men tour together
This tour is one for the history books– Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Donnie McClurkin and Israel Houghton are touring together? What?!?!? It does not get better than this! The four Black Gospel superstars will share the same stage for the very first time when they embark on The King’s Men concert tour this fall. The [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/05/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/strength-in-numbers-four-of-black-gospels-most-famous-men-tour-together/
ChoSon & Darcel Blue: new music video
Julius “choSon” Spencer and Darcel Blue are two gifted singers from Buffalo, New York; they collaborated on this new song, “Can’t Give Up,” and the video for it is superb! ChoSon has a new release out this month called “Psalms and Proverbs: Chapter II.” Visit www.chosononline.com for more info.
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/01/2012
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Christian music radio is not dead
We thought radio in general was dying, but it’s not totally dead just yet. While Gospel Music Week no longer exists in Nashville, like it did in the 2000s, Christian Music Daily found out today that about 500 Christian music radio people gather in Orlando once a year at Disney for about $300 a pop, [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/01/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/christian-music-radio-is-not-dead/
Ben Tankard on the Power of Music
Ben Tankard is a millionaire (as he says in this video) and he is also the world’s best-selling, most popular “Gospel jazz” musician. Now in his late forties, he got his start as a professional basketball player. When injured, he ended up changing career directions, and he became well known as a musician. In addition, [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 05/01/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/ben-tankard-on-the-power-of-music/
Gospel singer Tarolyn Moore’s thoughts on “The Church”
Gospel singer-minister Tarolyn Moore has been told she’s “too honest, blunt and to-the-point.” She got ChristianMusicDaily.com’s attention when she posted a series of comments about “Church” on her Facebook wall. Read her thoughts, and see which ones you agree with: “Church is the only place where when you go to a musical you see the [...]
Posted by markwebermusic on 04/30/2012
http://christiangospelmusicdaily.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/gospel-singer-tarolyn-moores-take-on-the-church/
