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Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. They met 40 years ago at Atlantic Records, where Friedlander was photographing many of the artists ...

One of the most renowned gospel singers was a great-granddaughter of Sitting Bull, the Sioux medicine man. Lillian "White Corn" Little Soldier Klaudt and her children formed the group the Klaudt ...

Rosetta Thompson, owner of three D.C.-area hair boutiques, loved gospel music so much she found the time to exchange her curling iron for a microphone to sing and become a top gospel quartet promoter ...

Aretha Franklin, a singer who began her career with gospel music and was later crowned the “Queen of Soul,” died Thursday after battling a range of health issues. Often simply called “Aretha,” ...

Rev. Stefanie Minatee, (left), artistic director of the Grammy award winning Jubilation Choir and Albert J. Lewis Jr, (right), host and executive director of the "Dr. Albert J. Lewis Gospel Hour." ...

The gold record on the living room wall is proof that the Rev. Janice Brown made an impact on the gospel music scene as the female member of the duo Barnes and Brown. That this Black singer/pastor ...

Willa Mae Dorsey, whose gospel-singing career lasted 56 years, filled five albums, won her a Grammy nomination and introduced black gospel music to many white congregations, died Jan. 5 at age 75.

Pervis Staples, whose tenor voice complemented his father’s and sisters’ in the legendary gospel group the Staple Singers, has died at his home outside Chicago. Pervis Staples died May 6 at 85, ...