This list is specifically for Christian music

Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world....

 performers in the Gospel music

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

genres who have either been very important to the genre, or have had a considerable amount of exposure, such as in the case of one that has been on a major label, but not limited to such. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (2002) defines CCM as "music that appeals to self-identified fans of contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

 on account of a perceived connection to what they regard as Christianity

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

". Based on this definition, this list includes artists that work in the Christian music industry

Christian music industry

The Christian music industry is a small part of the larger music industry, that focuses on traditional Gospel music, Southern Gospel music, Contemporary Christian music, and alternative Christian music. It is sometimes called the gospel music industry, although this designation is not a limitation...

 as well as artists in the general market.

Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by family name

Family name

A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...

.

Note: Because classifying gospel music

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 can be arbitrary, these groupings are generalized and many artists appear on multiple lists.

Artists

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• Faye Adams
  Faye Adams
  Faye Adams is an American vocalist.-Early years:She was the daughter of David Tuell, a gospel singer and a key figure in the Church of God in Christ...
  
  
• Oleta Adams
  Oleta Adams
  Oleta Adams is an American soul, jazz, and gospel singer and pianist.-Biography:Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised with gospel music. In her youth her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth.Before gaining her opportunity to perform,...
  
  
• Yolanda Adams
  Yolanda Adams
  Yolanda Adams is an American Grammy- and Dove-award-winning Yolanda Adams is an American [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]]- and [[Dove Awards|Dove]]-award-winning...
  
  
• Alabama sacred harp singers
  Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
  The Alabama Sacred Harp Singers were a sacred harp choir specializing in gospel music. On April 16, 1928, they recorded several songs for Columbia, amongst which was "Present Joys", later included on the Anthology of American Folk Music. They are most commonly referenced alongside Alan Lomax, who...
  
  
• Mary Alessi
  Mary Alessi
  -Personal life:Mary and her husband currently serve as co-pastors of Metro Life Church, a nondenominational congregation established in 1997 in Doral, Florida,...
  
  
• Charles McCallon Alexander
  Charles McCallon Alexander
  Charles McCallon Alexander , a native of East Tennessee, was a popular 19th Century gospel singer who worked the evangelistic circuit for many years. Over the course of his ministry, he toured with R. A. Torrey and John Wilbur Chapman, most notably. In 1904, Alexander married Helen Cadbury,...
  
  
• Rance Allen
• Inez Andrews
  Inez Andrews
  Inez Andrews is an American gospel singer and recording artist.-Biography:In 1957, Andrews became a member of the gospel group The Caravans; she auditioned for Albertina Walker and Dorothy Norwood, and they sent for her in Chicago...
  
  
• Vanessa Bell Armstrong
  Vanessa Bell Armstrong
  Vanessa Bell Armstrong is a gospel singer who released her debut album Peace Be Still in 1983.-Musical career :...
  
  

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• Philip Bailey
  Philip Bailey
  Philip Irvin Bailey is an American R&B, soul, gospel and funk singer, songwriter, percussionist and actor, best known as one of the longtime members of Earth, Wind & Fire. Together with Verdine White, B. David Whitworth, and Ralph Johnson he forms the heart of the current EWF line-up on...
  
  
• The Blackwood Brothers
  The Blackwood Brothers
  The Blackwood Brothers Quartet are an eight-time Grammy award-winning American Southern Gospel group. They have been around for 76 years, and were pioneers in the Christian music industry.-Musical career:...
  
  
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
  The Blind Boys of Alabama
  The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind....
  
  
• Anthony Burger
  Anthony Burger
  Anthony John Burger was an American musician and singer, most closely associated with Southern Gospel music.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nehemiah Hunter Brown
  Nehemiah Hunter Brown
  Nehemiah Brown is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter, arranger, professional musician, teacher, vocal coach and choral director.-Musical career:...
  
  
• Kim Burrell
  Kim Burrell
  Kimberly Burrell is an American gospel singer from Houston, Texas. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry, having only performed since 1989, she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre, often named as "this...
  
  
• Myron Butler
  Myron Butler
  Myron Butler is a Grammy award winning record producer, singer-songwriter, music director, vocalist, organist, and pianist. Most notably, he is known as the leader of the gospel choir, Myron Butler & Levi...
  
  
• Mark Brewer
  Mark Brewer
  Mark Brewer is an American artist who has worked as an illustrator. He received the National Cartoonist Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2002, and was nominated for the same award in 2000.-External links:*...
  
  
• The Barrett Sisters
  The Barrett Sisters
  The Barrett Sisters are an American award-winning gospel trio from Chicago, Illinois. The trio consisted of sisters DeLois Barrett Campbell, Billie Barrett GreenBey and Rodessa Barrett Porter. They have been singing together for more than 40 years.-History:The Barrett Sisters grew up in poverty in...
  
  

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• Shirley Caesar
  Shirley Caesar
  Shirley Ann Caesar is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades...
  
  
• Byron Cage
  Byron Cage
  Byron Cage is an American gospel recording artist.-Early years:Inspired by the singing of the late Rev. Donald Vails and Thomas Whitfield, Cage began singing gospel music as a teenager. Cage went on to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, where he was a member of the Morehouse College Glee...
  
  
• The Caravans
  The Caravans
  The Caravans is a Jubilee Gospel group that was started by Albertina Walker . The group reached its peak popularity during the 1950s and 1960s, launching the careers of a number of artists, including: Delores Washington, Albertina Walker, Bessie Griffin, Cassietta George, Dorothy Norwood, Inez...
  
  
• Kurt Carr
  Kurt Carr
  Kurt Carr is an American gospel music composer and performer. While living in the city of Hartford, Connecticut he served as Minister of Music at The First Baptist Church of Hartford located at the time on Greenfield Street...
  
  
• Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
  
  
• Alvin Chea
  Alvin Chea
  Alvin "Vinnie" Chea was born in 1967 and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. A product of Christian Education, Chea attended Seventh-day Adventist schools up through 1989 where Mr. Chea earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Oakwood University, double-majoring in English and Communications...
  
  
• The Clark Sisters
  The Clark Sisters
  The Clark Sisters are an American gospel vocal group consisting of four sisters:Jacky Clark Chisholm, Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark, Dorinda Clark-Cole, and Karen Clark Sheard. A fifth sister, Denise Clark Bradford, no longer performs with the group. The Clark Sisters are the daughters of legendary...
  
  
• Rev. James Cleveland
  James Cleveland
  The Reverend Dr. James Cleveland was a gospel singer, arranger, composer and, most significantly, the driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound, bringing the stylistic daring of hard gospel and jazz and pop music influences to arrangements for mass choirs...
  
  
• Cheryl "Coko" Clemons
  Coko
  Cheryl Elizabeth "Coko" Clemons is an American gospel and R&B singer, and lead singer of R&B group Sisters With Voices .-Musical career:...
  
  
• Dorinda Clark-Cole
• Marcus Cole
  Marcus Cole (singer)
  Marcus Cole is a gospel music singer and a member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned. In 2006, he signed with CeCe Winans' Puresprings Gospel and released his first solo album Write My Song.-References:...
  
  
• Daryl Coley
  Daryl Coley
  -Early life:Daryl Coley was born in Berkeley, California in 1955, spending his formative years in Oakland, California. His parents separated when he was five years old, with he and his two siblings being raised by his mother in a solid Christian home. Musically, Coley was first influenced by his...
  
  
• Commissioned
  Commissioned (gospel group)
  Commissioned is an American Gospel group. The group recorded twelve albums over a period of seventeen years.-Group composition:Originally from Detroit, Michigan, the six original members were Fred Hammond, Mitchell Jones, Keith Staten, Karl Reid, Michael Brooks, and Michael Williams formed a...
  
  
• David L Cook
• The Cook Family Singers
  The Cook Family Singers
  The Cook Family Singers were originally formed in 1885, by David J Cook and his wife, Martha. The family hailed from Lucedale, Mississippi. Cook and his wife had six children and on Sunday afternoons after church, they would pass the time by perfecting their singing of harmonies and old gospel blends...
  
  
• The Crabb Family
  The Crabb Family
  The Crabb Family was a Grammy-nominated, Dove Award-winning Southern Gospel group from Beaver Dam, Kentucky. They had sixteen No. 1 songs on the national radio charts.-Members:...
  
  
• Beverly Crawford
  Beverly Crawford
  Beverly Crawford is an African American gospel vocalist who is best known for singing with the New Life Singers on Bobby Jones Gospel on the Black Entertainment Television and for having well-known songs such as "Praise Jehovah", "Run to the Water", "He's Done Enough", and most recently "It's...
  
  
• Andraé Crouch
  Andrae Crouch
  Andraé Crouch is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.-Early years:Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California....
  
  
• Sandra Crouch
  Sandra Crouch
  Sandra Crouch is an American Gospel music performer, drummer and songwriter.-Musical career:She won a Grammy Award in 1985 for "Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female"....
  
  
• Adlan Cruz
  Adlan Cruz
  Adlan Cruz is a Christian Puerto Rican pianist, composer and producer.Cruz began playing the piano by ear at the age of three. He released his first album in 1989....
  
  

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• Montrell Darrett
  Montrell Darrett
  Montrell Darrett is a gospel music singer and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned.Darrett was raised in a family of six children, all of whom sang. He performed with his siblings as The True Notes and worked locally in Nashville...
  
  
• The Davis Sisters
  The Davis Sisters
  The Davis Sisters was an American gospel group founded by Ruth Davis and featuring her sisters Thelma, Audrey and Alfreda. Imogene Greene joined the group in 1950, and was later replaced by Jackie Verdell when Greene left to join the Caravans....
  
  
• The Dixie Hummingbirds
  The Dixie Hummingbirds
  The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of Gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today.-History:Formed in 1928 in...
  
  
• Thomas A. Dorsey
  Thomas A. Dorsey
  Thomas Andrew Dorsey was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys." Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.As formulated by Dorsey,...
  
  
• Holly Dunn
  Holly Dunn
  Holly Dunn is a country music artist who first found fame with her 1986 Top-10 hit "Daddy's Hands" from her self-titled début album. Dunn has charted more than a dozen country singles, two of which reaching the #1 spot.Dunn is the daughter of a minister father...
  
  

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• Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
  Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
  The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was a post-war gospel quartet. Powered by lead singer Archie Brownlee, their single "Our Father" reached the Billboard R&B charts in the early 1950s, one of the first gospel records to do so.-History:...
  
  
• Forever Jones
  Forever Jones
  Forever Jones is a Christian gospel group formed by husband and wife DeWitt and Kim Jones and their five children.-Band history:...
  
  
• Maxx Frank
  Maxx Frank
  Maxx Frank is a keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and a former member of the award-winning gospel performing group Commissioned.-Early years:...
  
  
• Kirk Franklin (with The Family, God's Property, and INC)
  Kirk Franklin
  Kirk Dwayne Franklin is an American Gospel music musician, choir director, and author, and is most notably known for leading urban contemporary gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One Nation Crew .- Early years :...
  
  
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  

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• Cassietta George
  Cassietta George
  Cassietta George was an American gospel vocalist, and composer. George was a member of The Caravans, the most popular touring gospel group from the late '50s to the mid-'60s...
  
  
• The Golden Gate Quartet
  The Golden Gate Quartet
  The Golden Gate Quartet is an American vocal group. It was formed in 1934 and, with changes in membership, remains active. It is the most successful of all of the African-American gospel music groups who sang in the jubilee quartet style...
  
  
• God's Property
  God's Property
  God's Property is a gospel choir, most notably known for its collaborations with Kirk Franklin and other recording artists.-Musical career:The choir began to collaborate with Kirk Franklin in 1993 and sang backup on his 1995 album, Whatcha Lookin' 4...
  
  
• Jade Trini Goring
  Jade Trini Goring
  Jade Trini Goring , formerly known by the stage name Jade Trini, is an American contemporary gospel music singer. Goring was also briefly a member of the electronic dance/house music/old school hip hop group, Mantronix, in 1991....
  
  
• Al Green
  Al Green
  Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...
  
  
• Bessie Griffin
  Bessie Griffin
  Bessie Griffin was an African American gospel singer.Born Arlette B. Broil in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was steeped in church music as a child...
  
  
• Greater Vision
  Greater Vision
  Greater Vision is a Southern Gospel trio founded in 1990 by Gerald Wolfe, Mark Trammell, and Chris Allman, and often accompanied by pianist Stan Whitmire . Over the last several years, this trio has consistently been named Southern Gospel's favorite trio of the year in the Singing News Fan Awards...
  
  
• Guy & Ralna
  Guy & Ralna
  Guy & Ralna are an American singing duo that appeared as regulars on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1970 to 1982.-Musical career:...
  
  

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• Ernie Haase
  Ernie Haase
  Ernie Haase started singing as a young boy at Washington Ave. Baptist Church. He is a Christian tenor vocalist known for being the founder of Ernie Haase and Signature Sound...
  
  
• Damita Haddon
• Deitrick Haddon
  Deitrick Haddon
  Deitrick Haddon is a Gospel singer, songwriter and producer. A popular artist known for his contemporary style of music, he is well known for his progressive gospel styles.-Early years:Haddon is a native of Detroit, Michigan....
  
  
• Danniebelle Hall
  Danniebelle Hall
  Danniebelle Hall , gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter.-Early life:Danniebelle Hall was born in Pittsburgh, PA the fourth of eight children. She was born to William Butler Jones and Danniebell Jones. Danniebelle learned to play piano at the age of three. She played piano for her...
  
  
• Hammond (and Radical for Christ)
  Fred Hammond
  Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer.-Musical career:Hammond has been active both as a member of the gospel performing group Commissioned, and as a solo artist...
  
  
• Larnelle Harris
  Larnelle Harris
  Larnelle Steward Harris is a gospel singer and songwriter. During his 30-plus years of ministry, Harris has recorded 18 albums, won five Grammy Awards and 18 Dove Awards, and has had several number one songs on the inspirational music charts.-Early life:A native of Danville, Kentucky, Harris...
  
  
• Harvest
  Harvest (band)
  Harvest is the name of the Christian band founded in Lindale, Texas by Jerry Williams in 1977. The vision of Harvest was to see 100 million people come to know Jesus Christ personally through the band's music ministry.-History:...
  
  
• Edwin Hawkins (and the Edwin Hawkins Singers)
  Edwin Hawkins
  Edwin Hawkins is a Grammy Award-winning American gospel and R&B musician, pianist, choir master, composer and arranger. He is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound. He are best known for his arrangement of "Oh Happy Day" , which was included on the Songs of the Century list...
  
  
• Tramaine Hawkins
• Walter Hawkins
  Walter Hawkins
  Walter Hawkins was an American gospel music singer, and a pastor. Hawkins was consecrated to the bishopic in 1992. He died at his home in Ripon, California, from pancreatic cancer....
  
  
• Jake Hess
  Jake Hess
  Jake Hess was an American Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer.-Life:Hess was born Manchild Hess December 24, 1927, in Limestone County, Alabama...
  
  
• Himanshu
• David Hollister
  David Hollister
  David Hollister served as the mayor of Lansing, Michigan from 1993 to 2003, until he resigned to be the director of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth under Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration...
  
  
• Hoppers
  Hoppers
  Hoppers is a classic Peg solitaire game released by ThinkFun in 1999. Players set up the board according to the pictures on each challenge card, then "leap frog" all the green frogs until only the red frog remains....
  
  
• Israel Houghton
  Israel Houghton
  -Other recordings :* "Champions for Christ" - Hi5 * "Where Are the Fathers?" from He-Motions * "Send Me to the Nations" from A Wing & A Prayer...
  
  
• Guy Hovis
  Guy Hovis
  Guy Lee Hovis, Jr. , is an American-born singer who, along with his former wife, Ralna English of West Texas, was one of the featured acts of television's The Lawrence Welk Show....
  
  

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• Mahalia Jackson
  Mahalia Jackson
  Mahalia Jackson – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel"...
  
  
• The Rev. Andrew Jenkins
  Andrew Jenkins
  The Rev. Andrew W. Jenkins was a leading composer of American country, folk and gospel songs. He is credited with more than 800 compositions, about a third of which were nonsacred...
  
  
• Blind Willie Johnson
  Blind Willie Johnson
  "Blind" Willie Johnson was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals....
  
  
• Mitchell Jones
• Forever Jones
  Forever Jones
  Forever Jones is a Christian gospel group formed by husband and wife DeWitt and Kim Jones and their five children.-Band history:...
  
  

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• Donald Lawrence
  Donald Lawrence
  Donald Lawrence is an American gospel music songwriter, record producer and artist.-Early years:Donald Lawrence was born on May 4, 1961. He studied at Cincinnati Conservatory, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in music. While in Cincinnati, he was also the Minister of Music at the...
  
  
• Doyle Lawson
  Doyle Lawson
  Doyle Lawson is an American bluegrass and gospel musician. Doyle is best known as an accomplished mandolin player, vocalist, producer, and leader of the 5-man group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.-Biography:...
  
  
• Lowell Lewis
  Lowell Lewis
  The Honourable Lowell Lyttleton Lewis is a politician , a former Chief Minister of Montserrat. He took office on 2 June 2006 and headed a coalition government consisting of the Montserrat Democratic Party , which he leads, the former ruling New People's Liberation Movement , and an independent...
  
  
• Bishop Eddie Long
  Eddie Long
  Eddie Lee Long is a controversial preacher and the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, near Lithonia. When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church in 1987, there were 300 church members...
  
  
• Love and Joy Gospel Choir
  Love and Joy
  Love and Joy Gospel Choir was formed in 1987 under the directorship of Dr Tani Omideyi. This vibrant, multi-racial choir, based at the Temple of Praise, has for many years been at the forefront of building relationships with communities locally and around the United Kingdom.The choir has ministered...
  
  
• Dorothy Love Coates
  Dorothy Love Coates
  Dorothy Love Coates was an American gospel singer.-Early years:Born Dorothy McGriff in Birmingham, Alabama, her early years were hard, . Her minister father left the family when she was six, divorcing her mother thereafter...
  
  

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• Mandisa
  Mandisa
  Mandisa Hundley is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mali Music
  Mali Music
  Mali Music is a 2002 album by musician Damon Albarn in collaboration with Malian musicians Afel Bocoum, Toumani Diabaté & Friends, and also featuring a cameo from Ko Kan Ko Sata.- Track listing :# Spoons# Bamako City# Le Relax...
  
  
• Mary Mary
  Mary Mary
  Mary Mary is an American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Tina Atkins-Campbell . The duo are often credited along with Kirk Franklin for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel in the 2000s by introducing elements of soul music, hip hop, funk and jazz...
  
  
• Donnie McClurkin
  Donnie McClurkin
  Donald Andrew McClurkin, Jr. is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work....
  
  
• Chris Marion
  Chris Marion
  Chris Marion is an American musician best known as a member of Little River Band and for his contribution to the gospel music industry....
  
  
• Roberta Martin
  Roberta Martin
  Roberta Martin was an American gospel composer, singer, pianist, arranger and choral organizer, helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group, The Roberta Martin Singers.-Early years:...
  
  
• Men of Standard
  Men of Standard
  -Musical career:The group spent the bulk of their tenure as signees to the Malaco Records subsidiary Muscle Shoals. Their album released on Columbia Records/Sony Gospel features production from Warryn Campbell as well as a guest appearance from rapper Heavy D and Kirk Franklin. They were also a...
  
  
• Mighty Clouds of Joy
  Mighty Clouds of Joy
  The Mighty Clouds of Joy is an American gospel quartet.-Career:The Mighty Clouds of Joy were formed in 1960 and started out in a tradition-based style. Eventually they added soul, R&B, and rock flourishes into their musical mix without diluting the essential religious essence of their material...
  
  
• Mississippi Mass Choir
  Mississippi Mass Choir
  The Mississippi Mass Choir is an American gospel choir based in Jackson, Mississippi.-Musical career:Serving God Through Song" is the motto and the mission of The Mississippi Mass Choir. Although striving to succeed in the gospel music industry, the choir's purpose is to help establish the gospel...
  
  
• Ericson Alexander Molano
  Ericson Alexander Molano
  Ericson Alexander Molano is a Gospel Christian singer. He became famous when the hit song, "Dios Manda Lluvia" came out. He has a Production company, Jehova-Nisi Producciones; where he is President and General Director. He is currently touring.In 1999, he released his first album El Vive Hoy,...
  
  
• J. Moss
• Nicole C. Mullen
  Nicole C. Mullen
  Aileen Nicole Coleman-Mullen, known professionally as Nicole C. Mullen, is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.-Music career:...
  
  
• Martha Munizzi
  Martha Munizzi
  -Award wins:-Award nominations:Munizzi has been nominated for Grammy, Dove, Stellar and Soul Train Awards as both a performer and songwriter. In 2006, Munizzi was nominated for a Grammy for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album...
  
  
• William H. Murphy
• Henrie Mutuku
  Henrie Mutuku
  -Early life:Mutuku was born in Nairobi in 1978, the firstborn with three brothers to Mr. and Mrs. Mutuku. She grew up in the Eastlands, a densely populated area in Nairobi inhabited by generally low income residents, and from a very young age was exposed to a diverse range of music styles including...
  
  

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• Gary S. Paxton
  Gary S. Paxton
  Gary S. Paxton, sometimes Pax , is an American record producer, and a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning songwriter and recording artist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Washington Phillips
  Washington Phillips
  Washington Phillips was a Texan gospel singer and musician. Phillips died in 1954 in Teague, Texas.- Biography :Phillips recorded eighteen songs, all between 1927 and 1929, though only sixteen survived...
  
  
• Wintley Phipps
  Wintley Phipps
  -External links:* * * * * * *...
  
  
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
  
• Billy Preston
  Billy Preston
  William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
  
  

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• Lynda Randle
  Lynda Randle
  Lynda Tait Randle, alto singer of southern gospel, was born in 1962 and grew up in the inner city of Washington, DC.-Gaither Homecoming:Randle is most well known as a Gaither Homecoming Artist and markets a number of singing videos featuring her mellow alto voice in gospel music, particularly...
  
  
• Karl Reid
• Woody Rock
  Woody Rock
  ----Woody Rock is an African-American singer and musician. Woody is best known as a former member of multi-platinum R&B act Dru Hill, a group for which he has written and sung lead on songs such as "5 Steps", "April Showers", and "Angel"...
  
  
• Thurman Ruth
  Thurman Ruth (promoter)
  Thurman Ruth , who got his start in vaudeville in 1927, was a gospel singer, deejay and concert promoter, and a forefather of such rhythm and blues producers as Ralph Bass...
  
   aka Thermon Ruth, T. Ruth
• Ron Kenoly
  Ron Kenoly
  Ron Kenoly is an American Christian worship leader, singer, and songwriter whose expressed mission is "to create an environment for the manifest presence of God". His musical style is one of jubilant praise and individual excellence on musical instruments...
  
  
• Little Richard
  Little Richard
  Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
  
  

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• Samsong
  Samsong
  Samsong is an award winning Nigerian gospel artist, based in Abuja, Nigeria. He has had a successful recording career with radio hits like Bianule, and a handful of accolades such as The Psalmist Award in 2000, and recently being nominated as "best Gospel Artist" by Nigerian Entertainment Awards ...
  
  
• Ira D. Sankey
  Ira D. Sankey
  Ira D. Sankey , known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, was an American gospel singer and composer, associated with evangelist Dwight L...
  
  
• Marvin Sapp
  Marvin Sapp
  Pastor Marvin Louis Sapp is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career...
  
  
• Briana Scott
  Briana Scott
  Briana Scott is an American Contemporary Christian music solo singer and songwriter.-Biography:Scott, a native of Arizona, began singing as a child at the Emmanuel Church of God in Christ under the leadership of the late Bishop Felton King...
  
  
• Guy Sebastian
  Guy Sebastian
  Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian pop, R&B, and soul singer-songwriter who was the first winner of Australian Idol in 2003. He is currently a judge on the Australian version of The X Factor. Sebastian has released six top ten platinum/multi platinum albums, including a number-one and...
  
  
• Marilyn Sellars
  Marilyn Sellars
  Marilyn Sellars is an American country music and gospel singer who had several hits during the mid 1970s on Mega Records, most notably the original version of "One Day At A Time" in 1974.-Early career:...
  
  
• The Sensational Nightingales
• Karen Clark Sheard
  Karen Clark Sheard
  Karen Clark-Sheard is an American gospel four-time Grammy Award winning singer, musician, and songwriter. The youngest daughter of pioneering gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark, Sheard began her career as a member of the Grammy-Award winning, gospel legendary female group, The Clark Sisters...
  
  
• Kierra "Kiki" Sheard
• The Soul Stirrers
  The Soul Stirrers
  One of the most popular and influential gospel groups of the 20th century, the Soul Stirrers were pioneers in the development of the quartet style of gospel and, without intending it, in the creation of soul music, doo wop, and motown sound, some of the secular music that owed much to gospel.The...
  
  
• Sounds of Blackness
  Sounds of Blackness
  Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B chart and Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play...
  
  
• Richard Smallwood
  Richard Smallwood
  Richard Smallwood is an American Gospel music artist who formed The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1977 in Washington, DC.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Statler Brothers
• The Staple Singers
  The Staple Singers
  The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul, and R&B singing group. Roebuck "Pops" Staples , the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha , Pervis , Yvonne , and Mavis...
  
  
• Keith Staten
• Candi Staton
  Candi Staton
  Candi Staton is an American soul and gospel singer, best known for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.-Early years:...
  
  
• Ruben Studdard
  Ruben Studdard
  Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard , best known as Ruben Studdard, is an American R&B, pop, and gospel singer. He rose to fame as winner of the second season of American Idol...
  
  
• The Swan Silvertones

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• Take 6
  Take 6
  Take 6 is an American a cappella gospel music sextet formed in 1980 on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. The group sings in a contemporary style, integrating R&B and jazz influences into their devotional songs and has 10 Grammy wins, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two...
  
  
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an Amercian pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment...
  
  
• Charles Davis Tillman
  Charles Davis Tillman
  Charles Davis Tillman —also known as Charlie D. Tillman, Charles Tillman, Charlie Tillman, and C. D. Tillman—was a popularizer of the gospel song...
  
  
• Tonéx
  Tonéx
  Anthony Charles Williams II , better known by his former stage name Tonéx , and most recently as B.Slade, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, dancer, producer, preacher, and activist. He has gone by various names and aliases, but his primary stage name of choice...
  
  
• Trin-i-tee 5:7
  Trin-i-tee 5:7
  Trin-I-Tee 5:7 is a gospel duo from New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States. The group was marketed as a gospel alternative to R&B girl groups such as Destiny's Child and TLC. Trin-i-tee 5:7 has sold over 2.5 million albums....
  
  
• Tye Tribbett

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• Gary Valenciano
  Gary Valenciano
  Edgardo Jose Martin Santiago Valenciano , better known as Gary Valenciano or Gary V., is a Filipino musician. He is also dubbed as Mr. Pure Energy. He has released 26 albums, and won the Awit Awards for "Best Male Performer" 11 times. In 1998, he became UNICEF Philippines first national Ambassador...
  
  
• Yolanda Vadiz
  Yolanda Vadiz
  Yolanda Vadiz was a Puerto Rican soprano. She got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico and her Master's degree in Manhattan School of Music in New York. While in New York, she sang the leading role in the zarzuela "Dona Francisquita" for the Repertorio Español theater company housed at the...
  
  
• Jaci Velasquez
  Jaci Velasquez
  Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin Pop singer—in both English and Spanish languages....
  
  
• Virtue
  Virtue (musical group)
  Virtue is a popular Gospel music group. The group Currently consists of sisters Ebony Holland, Karima Kibble and Heather Martin.-Biography:The group was formed 1994 by Karima Trotter , Ebony Trotter , Negelle Sumter, and Shavonne Sampson...
  
  

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• Hezekiah Walker
  Hezekiah Walker
  Bishop Hezekiah Xzavier Walker, Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning gospel music artist, founder and leader of the Love Fellowship Choir , and Pastor and Bishop of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle, with locations in Brooklyn, New York, and Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
  
  
• Albertina Walker
  Albertina Walker
  -Early years:Walker was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ruben and Camille Coleman Walker. Her mother was born in Houston County, Georgia, and her father in Bibb County, Georgia. They moved to Chicago between 1917-1920 where they lived out their lives. Albertina had four siblings born in Bibb County...
  
  
• Clara Ward
  Clara Ward
  Clara Ward was an American gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers....
  
  
• Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Edwin Warren is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee...
  
  
• Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  
• Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch
  Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
  
  
• Thomas Whitfield
  Thomas Whitfield
  Thomas Anthony Whitfield was an American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, choir director and producer best known for helping to shape the fabric of contemporary gospel music with his elaborate choral arrangements and the merging of musical styles ranging from jazz to classical into...
  
  
• Marva Whitney
  Marva Whitney
  Marva Whitney is an African American funk singer. She is considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas....
  
  
• Hank Williams
• Marion Williams
  Marion Williams
  Marion Williams was an American gospel singer.-Early years:Marion Williams was born in Miami, Florida, to a religiously devout mother and musically inclined father. She left school when she was nine years old to help support the family, and worked as a maid, a nurse, and in factories and...
  
  
• Michelle Williams
  Michelle Williams (singer)
  Tenitra Michelle Williams , commonly known as Michelle Williams, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress...
  
  
• Elder Roma Wilson
  Elder Roma Wilson
  Elder Roma Wilson is an American gospel harmonica player and singer. A clergyman, Wilson discovered he had a degree of notability later in his life, having originally been unaware of interest in his work.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Winans Family
  Winans family
  The Winans family is an African-American family of Gospel music artists from Detroit, Michigan.-Family members:* David "Pop" Winans, Sr. * Delores "Mom" Winans * David Winans Jr....
  
  
  • The Winans
    The Winans
    The Winans are an American Gospel music quartet from Detroit, Michigan consisting of brothers Marvin, Carvin, Michael and Ronald Winans.-Members:Please refer to the Winans family page for more detail on the individual members.-Origins:...
    
    
  • BeBe & CeCe Winans
    BeBe & CeCe Winans
    BeBe & CeCe Winans are an American Gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the seventh and eighth of "Mom" and "Pop" Winans' ten children, most of whom have had successful Gospel music careers.-Musical career:...
    
    
  • BeBe Winans
    BeBe Winans
    Benjamin "BeBe" Winans is a gospel and R&B singer. He is a member of the noted Winans family, most members of which are also gospel artists.-The PTL Club:...
    
    
  • CeCe Winans
    CeCe Winans
    Priscilla "CeCe" Marie Winans Love is an American Gospel singer, who has won numerous Grammy and Stellar Awards.-Early life:CeCe Winans was born in Detroit, Michigan, to David and Delores Winans, on October 8, 1964...
    
    
  • Mario Winans
    Mario Winans
    Mario Winans is an American R&B singer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born Mario Brown, he is the son of gospel recording artist Vickie Winans and her first husband, Bishop Ronald Brown. He is also the stepson of his mother's second husband, gospel singer, Pastor Marvin...
    
    
  • Marvin Winans
    Marvin Winans
    Marvin Lawrence Winans is an American gospel singer and member of the musical Winans family. He is also known for his recurring role in the hit show Tyler Perry's House of Payne.-Personal life:...
    
    
  • Ron Winans
  • Vickie Winans
    Vickie Winans
    Vickie Winans is an American Gospel recording artist.-Biography:The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason...
    
    

See also

• Gospel blues
  Gospel blues
  Gospel blues is a form of blues-based gospel music that has been around since the inception of blues music, a combination of blues guitar and evangelistic lyrics...
  
  
• Southern Gospel
  Southern Gospel
  Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...
  
  
• Urban contemporary gospel
  Urban contemporary gospel
  Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...
  
  
• Gospel Music Hall of Fame
  Gospel Music Hall of Fame
  The Gospel Music Hall of Fame, created in 1971 by the Gospel Music Association, is a Hall of Fame dedicated exclusively to recognizing meaningful contributions by individuals and groups in all forms of gospel music.-Inductees:...
  
  
• Gospel Music Association
  Gospel Music Association
  The Gospel Music Association was founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of Gospel music. There are currently about 4,000 members worldwide...
  
  

Contrast with

• List of Christian bands and artists by genre
• Contemporary Christian music
  Contemporary Christian music
  Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
  
  
• Contemporary worship music