- Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 - January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre. - Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American R&B, Pop and Gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has been called for many years "The Queen Of Soul", but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the more affectionate "Sister Ree." She is renowned for her soul recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the greatest vocalists ever, … - Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin is a Grammy Award winning American gospel singer and minister. - Kirk Franklin
Kirk Franklin (born January 26, 1970 in Riverside, Texas) is a Grammy Award winning, platinum-selling African American musician who blends gospel, hip hop, and R&B. He released his first gospel album, "Kirk Franklin & Family", in 1993, and is known as the leader of contemporary gospel choirs such as Kirk Franklin & the Family, Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation, God's Property and Kirk Franklin Presents 1NC. - Yolanda Adams
Yolanda Yvette Adams (born August 27, 1961 in Houston, Texas) is a Grammy Award-winnning American singer. She is one of the most popular gospel music artists of the contemporary period. Along with Kirk Franklin, Adams is among the artists who have achieved the greatest critical and commercial success in blending R&B styles and gospel music, an achievement which, while it initially caused criticism among the conservative Christian church, … - Cece Winans
Priscilla Winans Love (born on October 8, 1964), known professionally as CeCe Winans, is a prominent American gospel singer and winner of numerous Grammy Awards and Stellar Awards. - Shirley Caesar
Shirley Caesar (b. October 13, 1938) is an twelve time African-American Grammy winning gospel singer and Christian pastor. Caesar was born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. She faced many obstacles in her youth, including racism, segregation, the death of her father when she was only eight years old, and the responsibility of caring for a semi-invalid mother. Caesar began singing as a young girl in church. Although she was struggling in school, she remained determined, … - Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. - Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 - December 11, 1964) was a popular and influential American gospel, R&B, soul, pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Indeed, musicians and critics today recognize him as one of the founders of soul music, and as one of the most important singers in soul music history (Greene, 2006). He has been called "the king of soul" by many, and while some may dispute this title, … - James Cleveland
James Cleveland (December 5, 1931 - February 9, 1991) 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. - Marvin Sapp
Marvin Sapp is the pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, and in 2007, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is perhaps best known as a Gospel singer, recording with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a solo career. After spending six years with the multi-award winning group Commissioned and Fred Hammond, Marvin has since established himself as a contemporary gospel mainstay in his own right. His self-titled solo debut and his follow up, … - Bobby Jones
Dr. Bobby Jones (born September 18, 1939) is a famous gospel leader and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Henry, Tennessee, Jones is host and executive producer of cable television's only national gospel program, "Bobby Jones Gospel". He has produced programs for BET since 1980, which figure prominently in the Sunday programming on that channel. - Andrae Crouch
Andraé Edward Crouch, gospel musician, recording artist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He is cousin to music critic Stanley Crouch. - Kim Burrell
Kimberly Burrell Wiley is an American gospel singer from Houston, TX. She calls her musical style jazz gospel. Though she is comparatively new to the gospel music industry, having only debuted in 1995, she has quickly become one of the most influential voices in the genre, often named as "this generation's Ella Fitzgerald." - Bill Gaither
William J. Gaither (born March 28 1936) is an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music. He has written numerous popular Christian songs with his wife, Gloria. Besides performing solo and with his wife, Gaither has appeared as part of the Bill Gaither Trio, the Gaither Vocal Band, and as a part of his "Homecoming" groups. - Bebe Winans
BeBe Winans (born Benjamin Winans, 17 September 1962, in Detroit, Michigan) is a Grammy Award winning gospel and R&B singer.He is a member of the noted Winans family, many members of which are also gospel artists. He released several albums, first with his sister CeCe Winans, and later as a solo artist. He currently hosts his own nationally syndicated radio program, "The BeBe Winans Radio Show". In 1989, BeBe won His First Grammy for Best Soul Gospel Performance, … - Etta James
Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, R&B, and jazz singer and songwriter. In the 1950s and 60s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer. She is best-known for her 1961 ballad "At Last", which has been classified as a "timeless classic" and has been featured in many movies and television commercials since its release. - Hezekiah Walker
Pastor Hezekiah Walker is a Grammy Award - winnning gospel music artist and pastor of prominent Brooklyn New York megachurch Love Fellowship Tabernacle. Walker has released several albums on Benson Records and Verity Records as Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Crusade Choir. - Jordin Sparks
Jordin Brianna Sparks (born on December 22, 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer. On May 23, 2007, she was declared the winner of the sixth season of the reality television show "American Idol". At 17, this makes her the youngest winner in "American Idol" history. In addition, she is the only winner who is from the Southwestern United States, rather than the Southern United States - Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams (born Tenitra Michelle Williams on July 23, 1980) is an American gospel and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress, who was a background singer for Monica, before rising to fame as one-third of the successful Grammy Award-winning musical group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time, selling over 100 million records worldwide. - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
"Sister" Rosetta Tharpe was a 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 accompaniment. She became the first great recording star of Gospel music, first surfacing on the pop charts with her 1938 original composition "This Train". - Byron Cage
Byron Cage is an African-American gospel recording artist. His work includes "An Invitation to Worship" album and a self-titled LP recorded "Live at New Birth Cathedral" in Atlanta, Georgia. - Donald Lawrence
Donald Lawrence is an American gospel music songwriter, record producer and artist. - Vickie Winans
Vickie Winans is a Grammy-nominated gospel recording artist. She is the mother of R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Mario Winans and the former wife of Marvin Winans, a member of legendary gospel group The Winans. - Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 - December 14, 1963) was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the Queen of the Blues. Despite dying of a drug overdose in 1963, Dinah Washington became one of the most influential vocalists of the twentieth century. - Ruben Studdard
Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American pop/R&B/gospel singer who rose to fame as winner of the second season of the "American Idol" television program. - Vanessa Bell Armstrong
Vanessa Bell Armstrong (born Vanessa Bell on October 2, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an award-winning gospel singer who released her debut album in 1983. Armstrong's second album "Chosen" hit number one on the US Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart. Her album "Following Jesus" won a Soul Train Music Award for Best Gospel Album - Solo in 1988. She is also a seven time Grammy Award-nominee. - Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke (born March 21 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a soul and country music pioneer and member of the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - John P. Kee
Pastor John P. Kee (born John Prince Kee on June 4, 1962) is an American gospel singer and pastor. is widely known as one of the most influential and well known gospel artists today. His 15 years plus career in gospel is a testament to his calling to praise God and minister to people through song. He is known for his ability to mix traditional gospel with modern contemporary gospel with his soulful, husky voice. - J. Moss
J. Moss is a Detroit-based songwriter and record producer. =Biography= As one-third of the writing and production team PAJAM, J. Moss has quietly become one of the most powerful forces in modern gospel and soul music. Combining traditional spiritual messages with modern arrangements and hip hop beats, PAJAM's groundbreaking work with Trin-i-Tee 5:7, Hezekiah Walker, … - Clara Ward
Clara Ward (April 21, 1924 - January 16, 1973) was a gospel artist who achieved great success, both artistic and commercial, in the 1940s and 1950s as leader of The Famous Ward Singers. A gifted singer and arranger, Ward took the lead-switching style used by male gospel quartets to new heights, … - Gloria Gaither
Gloria Gaither (b. March 4, 1942) is a songwriter for gospel music, along with her husband, Bill Gaither. She also sang in the Bill Gaither Trio, one of the most influential groups in recent Christian music. - Marion Williams
Marion Williams (August 29, 1927 - July 2, 1994) was a legendary American gospel singer, often regarded as one of the most powerful voices in American music history. A powerful singer with a preternaturally broad range, able to reach the highest registers of the soprano range without losing either purity or volume, she could also swoop down to growling low notes in the style of a country preacher. - Smokie Norful
Rev. W.R. "Smokie" Norful, Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist, best known for his 2002 album "I Need You Now" and his 2004 release, "Nothing Without You," which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2005. Norful, a minister who is also the son of an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister, was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas but grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, deeply involved in his father's church. - Karen Clark Sheard
Karen Clark Sheard (born Karen Valencia Clark) is an American gospel singer, member of seminal group The Clark Sisters, and mother of contemporary gospel singer Kierra "Kiki" Sheard. - Martha Munizzi
Martha Munizzi (mew-NIZ-ee) is an internationally acclaimed Gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. Along with figures like Ron Kenoly, Clint Brown and Israel Houghton, Munizzi is pioneering cross-cultural worship music that connects with both black and white Christian congregations. - Kelly Price
Kelly Price (born April 20 1973 in Queens, New New York) is a Grammy Award-nominated American R&B and soul singer, formerly the flagship female artist on the Def Soul label. - Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Georgia - January 23, 1993, Chicago), is known as "The Father of Gospel Music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom. As formulated by Dorsey, gospel music combines Christian praise with the rhythms of jazz and the blues. Dorsey was the music director at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago from 1932 until the late 1970s. - Walter Hawkins
Walter Hawkins is an American gospel music singer born May 18, 1949 in Oakland, California. Hawkins is best known for his hit "Oh Happy Day" with The Edwin Hawkins Singers which became one of the first gospel songs to crossover onto mainstream charts. Walter left the group in the early 70's to pursue a solo career. He had considerable success with his Love Alive series which collectively sold over a million copies from the 70's through the 80's.
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