The Stellar Gospel Music Awards will honor Blacksmoke Music Worldwide founder and CEO Kerry Douglas with induction into the 2020 Stellar Honors Hall of Fame.
April Potter, President of the April Potter Agency has announced the addition of multi-award recipient singer/songwriter Riley Harrison Clark to its roster. April Potter Agency will be handling all booking and management for Riley.
The highly-regarded Chairman & CEO of Capitol Christian Music Group (CCMG), Peter York, will retire from the company on March 31, marking the end of a singular 50-year career in the music business that included 37 years in leadership roles at CCMG.
Jodi Essex is an actress, producer and singer/songwriter from Carmel in Northern California. She took great interest in the performing arts as a youth and regularly performed as a soloist in her church as well as leading worship for her youth group. Eventually, she began focusing solely on a music career, playing and touring in two mainstream rock bands she helped form. Years later, finally heeding strong promptings from God and feeling led to share some hard-learned life lessons and poignant, transformational experiences, she finds herself back to her faith-filled roots and the debut of her first Christian rock single, "Irreverent.”
Acclaimed husband/wife Christian music duo Seth & Nirva make their long-awaited return March 13 with their new album, One Voice, an impassioned 13-track collection of music and spoken-word vignettes. The project showcases the couple at their most vulnerable and most confident, tackling such deeply personal topics as racial reconciliation and apologetics. In advance of the new album, the couple has released the new song, "Be Still."
CCM recently interviewed most of this years Christian music artists that are nominated for the 62nd GRAMMY Awards later this month.
Watch all of the red carpet interview here:
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One of the most popular Christian music syndicated radio programs of all time, Soul2Soul, is set to broadcast its final show later this month, following an historic 25-year run. The show has featured 500 unique interviews since its inception, and at its peak was heard on 781 radio stations in 44 countries.
Internationally renowned pianist, composer, producer and Christian music artist, Paul Cardall, is dedicating his poignant rendition of the Christmas classic, “O Holy Night,” to fellow heart disease patient Mandy Dutton this holiday season.
Alexandria Levin is a passionate worshipper and follower of Jesus. While she has been traveling with ministry teams and served in worship leadership for awhile, she is relatively new on the national CCM worship music scene. For years Alexandria has written songs and used music as an expression of her worship. In 2018, she took a more intentional approach to her songwriting and began collaborating with friends and family as well as joining the Dream Records roster.
Integrity Music's worship group Nashville Life Music will release a new Christmas song on November 29th, "Gloria." Written and arranged by Alvin Love III and Dwan Hill, the song was birthed out of their church's original musical, It's Christmas, based on the album from Love's mother and senior church pastor, CeCe Winans.