The King's Men Tour

The King’s Men tour could be on its way to your city (or to a city near you)! This tour is set to feature Kirk Franklin, Marvin Sapp, Israel Haughton, and Donnie McClurkin. Definitely a great line up! Tickets are already on sale.

DATE	CITY	VENUE	ON SALE DATE
Sun, Sep 16	Phoenix, AZ	Comerica Theatre	Fri, May 11
Wed, Sep 19	Los Angeles, CA	Gibson Amphitheatre	Fri, May 11
Sat, Sep 22	Concord, CA	Sleep Train Amphitheatre	Fri, May 11
Tue, Sep 25	Dallas, TX	Verizon Theatre At Grand Prairie	Sat, May 12
Wed, Sep 26	Houston, TX	Reliant Arena	Sat, May 12
Fri, Sep 28	Atlanta, GA	Chastain Amphitheatre	Fri, May 11
Sun, Sep 30	Miami, FL	AmericanAirlines Arena	Fri, May 11
Tue, Oct 02	Tampa, FL	USF Sun Dome	Fri, June 1
Thu, Oct 04	Norfolk, VA	Constant Convocation Center	Fri, June 8
Sat, Oct 06	Washington DC	Verizon Center	Fri, May 11
Sun, Oct 07	Philadelphia, PA	Liacouras Center	Fri, May 18
Tue, Oct 09	Cleveland, OH	Wolstein Center	Fri, May 11
Wed, Oct 10	Chicago, IL	United Center	Mon, June 18
Fri, Oct 12	Detroit, MI	Fox Theatre	Sat, May 19
Sun, Oct 14	Brooklyn, NY	Barclays Center	Sat, May 12

For more info, click HERE.

Le’Andria Johnson is Pregnant

Gospel Singer and Sunday's Best past winner, Le'Andria Johnson, is pregnant.  Check out the article and news HERE.

A New Reality Show for Mary Mary

Gospel duo, Mary Mary, have their very own reality show starting on March 29th (10pm EST) on We TV.

The We TV website provides the following synopsis for the show:

Sister duo Erica and Tina Campbell make up the multi-Grammy award winning Gospel group Mary Mary. Balancing busy lives of worldwide recording artists with the demands of being both mothers and wives is challenging, especially when working closely with family.


Tina and her husband, Teddy, have four children. Erica and her husband, Warryn, have two small children and are expecting another. Despite the glamorous life of Mary Mary on the road, at home it’s very different. Luckily for Erica and Tina, their supportive husbands also work in the music business and understand the challenges they face. Warryn is the successful producer to Mary Mary, and Tina’s husband, Teddy, is The Tonight Show’s drummer. In the end, family trumps all, but Mary Mary’s music is their true passion, and they are determined to reach even greater heights.

Per We TV: New episodes then air in its regular timeslot Thursdays at 9pm EST beginning April 5, with 10, hour-long episodes.

Looking forward to the show!

A "Joyful Noise" with KeKe Palmer & Queen Latifah

KeKe Palmer and Queen Latifah have a new film coming out next month; the film is entitled "Joyful Noise".  The film also stars Dolly Parton.  The trailer shows a movie that is sure to make us laugh & be inspired.

KeKe recently completed an interview regarding the film and working with Queen Latifah again (she previously worked with Queen Latifah in "Barber Shop 2").  Check out the interview and movie trailer HERE.


This film definitely looks like a good one to see!!

Mary Mary Cancels Christmas Tour



Photo from: http://www.mary-mary.com/us/photos/official



Gospel duo, Mary Mary, has cancelled their Christmas Tour.  Group member, Erica Campbell, is pregnant with her third child; as her due date draws near, doctors have advised her to rest from the vigorous schedule.

The following statement was issued via Facebook:

“Sorry everyone, we had to cancel the “Have A Mary Mary Christmas Tour.” Just know that I have the greatest passion for whom I sing about and a great love and respect for whom I sing to, so I’ll be back to what I live for as soon as I take care of mommy business.” – Erica Campbell

More details can be found HERE.

Wishing Erica much rest as she prepares for the new addition to her family!

Grammy Winning Singer Readies ‘Soulful Christmas’ DVD and Holiday TV Special

Closing out a remarkable year in music, Ann Nesby , the two-time Grammy award winning former lead vocalist to the Sounds of Blackness readies the release of her latest musical offering ‘Ann Nesby's a Soulful Christmas' for the 2009 holiday season.

‘Soulful Christmas' released on Ann Nesby's It's Time Child Records in association with Tyscot Records follows her acclaimed The Lula Lee Project album which debuted at #13 on Billboard's Top Gospel album chart and #57 respectively on the R&B chart this year.

Spending the summer promoting The Lula Lee Project , she taped ‘Soulful Christmas' with a live band at the Gospel Music Channel studios in Atlanta in front of a live studio audience.

“I wanted to be used by God to help them usher in the masses into the holiday season,” says Ann Nesby who excitingly marks this as her first ever Christmas show collection.

‘Soulful Christmas' highlights a few of the most noted holiday anthems sung only as Ann Nesby could deliver - “Jesus, What a Wonderful Child” leads the musical montage setting the tone for cheerful yuletide, the classically melodic “Silent Night ” finds an appropriate spot on this Christmas set, to her holiday staple from the Sounds of Blackness, “Soul Holiday,” featuring Grammy award winning songwriter/singer Big Jim Wright, musical director of the new hit BET late night talk show the Mo'Nique Show.

Read the rest here.

Soulful alum set on captivating listeners

Some students on the doorsteps of graduation may struggle with their future plans, but Temple alum and R&B singer Rafiya has not been one of those people.

Rafiya has managed to do several things in her young life, traveling the world at an early age, graduating from Temple with honors, teaching at a New Jersey High School and recording her upcoming EP, on which she sings in several different languages.

As the daughter of a Congolese diplomat, her father’s occupation allowed the now 26-year-old, who was born in Los Angeles, to travel to such places as Benin, Senegal and Cape Verde, to name a few, spending approximately three years in each country.

The experience of living in several different places has also affected her musically in terms of the instrumentation and arrangements on her EP.

The four songs on the EP, which is set to be released Nov. 17, were recorded in Philadelphia, New York and Paris. The EP features the recently released single “Amazing.”

Rafiya described her music as diverse and said it shows who she is as a person.

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