Gospel superstar Marvin Sapp is going secular — if only for a few songs. His new mini-album is called "If I Were an R&B Singer." MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was ...

Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings are found in the music sung, and passed down, by enslaved people in ...

Daniel Caesar attains his first No. 1 on Billboard 's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Son of Spergy begins atop the list ...

Before I knew anything of hip-hop, I knew the gospel. Growing up in a southern Baptist home can be an insular experience. God and Christianity were a serious affair, and a conservative, largely ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT GOSPEL SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, gospel music’s most beloved vocalists have served up songs that have ...

Glenn Jones, the R&B hit-maker known for songs such as “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Here I Go Again,” will perform along with the Delfonics and Kustom Made for tonight’s Lovers & Friends Holiday Gala ...

Anthony Heilbut's book The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, the Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations is that too-rare thing: music writing that lays ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

In the early 1850s, a woman named Biddy Mason migrated to Southern California with a slave-holding Southerner who thought he owned her. He was wrong. Upon their arrival, Mason sued for her freedom and ...

This doesn't begin as a family-values story. Max Siegel's father, Bill, a music salesman, was Jewish. His mother, Delores, a beautiful nightclub singer, was African-American. The marriage ended badly; ...