Billboard launched its weekly Songwriters and Producers charts in June 2019, recognizing the creative forces behind the music: the Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, along ...

Jeff Parker once turned down a job from Joni Mitchell. It was early 1998, and the luck of the guitarist, newly 30, suddenly seemed to be shifting. He had been in Chicago for just less than a decade, ...

Quinnes “Q” Parker has spent three decades in music, but still maintains the same enthusiasm that first carried him into the industry. As a founding member of 112, Parker helped define an era of R&B.

Charlotte will soon take center stage in the gospel music world. The Stellar Gospel Music Awards, widely considered the biggest awards show in gospel music, will be held in the Queen City this summer, ...

In early February 2025, I caught the spirit on an I-285 on-ramp in Smyrna. Black gospel found me, and hasn’t left me since. As a lifelong white person, I indulge in an annual Black History Month ...

Catholic African American music icons Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte helped usher in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. (Photo: Digital Collections, The New York Public Library) While gospel ...

Los Angeles — Detroit's own CeCe Winans has tied the late Aretha Franklin with her 18th Grammy win Sunday evening. Music’s biggest night returns to L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena, broadcasting live on CBS ...

Religion has long provided a stimulus for jazz. Figures as august as Duke Ellington and John Coltrane drew profound inspiration from their faith, though their reception varied. Ellington's religious ...

TULSA, Oklahoma — Billy Parker, an influential country music singer and veteran radio disc jockey, has died at 88. Parker, a longtime personality on KVOO radio in Tulsa, died this week, according to ...

Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77. Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at a rehabilitation and ...

The gospel music world is mourning the loss of a giant. Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and composer whose music reshaped modern worship, has died at the age of 77. For ...

He sold millions of albums with the Richard Smallwood Singers, and his songs, many influenced by classical music, were recorded by stars like Whitney Houston. By Clay Risen Richard Smallwood, a ...