THERE ARE several special guests featured on the new album by legendary gospel diva Mavis Staples. Featured on 86 year old Mavis' 'Sad And Beautiful World' released by ANTI- on 7th November are Buddy ...

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Tony Cummings unpacks the fascinating tale of a groundbreaking group often overlooked by gospel music historians, THE HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS It has become an acknowledged fact of popular music ...

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are a rock band with a huge following - their debut record for Virgin went Gold in 2006 - but they are one who never fitted comfortably into the corporate manoeuvrings of ...

With the dramatic fall in credibility and commerciality of Australia's Hillsong mega church and its youth culture offspring Hillsong United, worship artist Benjamin William Hastings has emerged from ...

"Shine Jesus Shine" (also known by its first line "Lord, The Light Of Your Love") is surely to be considered a classic. It was voted 10th in a 2005 survey conducted by the BBC's Songs Of Praise of the ...

As any Cross Rhythms listener will know, For King + Country have risen and risen in these storm- filled times to become, along with Lauren Daigle and TobyMac, the most popular artists in the whole ...

The Swanee Quintet are gospel music survivors - an old style vocal group who over the decades have travelled the Gospel Highway playing everything from humble storefront churches to Carnegie Hall and ...

The vocal group from New York, Naturally 7 have enjoyed international success without the need for a backing band. Their dazzling acappella harmonies have been enjoyed by such diverse audiences as ...

On 27th May 1973 Britain's top rock venue the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London put on a concert to a sold-out throng of 2,700. The two attractions on the bill were singer/songwriter Larry ...

Ever since Leanna Crawford scored her first Cross Rhythms radio hit in 2020 with "Funeral" - a self-written song about finding our identity in Christ ("So, I'm throwing a funeral, funeral for the old ...

For those with ears to hear, it's now being acknowledged in church circles that one of the most anointed and powerful worship anthems of recent times is the glorious live version of "I Speak Jesus" on ...