Until the discovery of the film of “Amazing Grace,” the genius of the work of Alexander Hamilton was not as well known as it is now. For those familiar, Hamilton’s co-starring role conducting the ...
Mary Hall remembers the first time she heard Aretha Franklin sing “Amazing Grace.” It was during a dress rehearsal inside of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts neighborhood of Los ...
As a member of Virginia native Pharrell Williams’ gospel choir, Voices of Fire, Nakia Madry-Smith was on stage at the Vatican ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In January 1972 Aretha Franklin walked down the aisle of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, an Afro-American district of ...
A late entrant into the Oscar documentary race could prove a formidable contender. Amazing Grace, which documents the live recording of Aretha Franklin’s gospel album in 1972, had been mired in ...
It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle — just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God. Over two days in January of 1972, Aretha Franklin got up to sing out her gospel at the New ...
When Aretha Franklin sits down at the piano and begins belting out the opening verse to Marvin Gaye’s “Wholy Holy,” it's maybe three or four notes before the tiny hairs on the back of your neck stand ...
With Prom 6, attention is turned to the music of the soul. The second-ever Gospel Prom is the the first of this season's Late Night Proms and features some of the UK's greatest vocal talent - singers ...
The Soweto Gospel Choir‘s latest album, “Grace,” is easily as exuberant and inspired as any of its past efforts. The aptly titled 19-song set-the South African group’s fourth release on… By Billboard ...
Alexander Hamilton, who died Jan. 28 at age 77, was a conductor and arranger who was able to add “movie star” to his credits in the last years of his life. His work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1972 “Amazing ...