Smallwood died at the age of 77 from complications of kidney failure on Tuesday, December 30, 2025.

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 – after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream hosted by Druski – check out a pair of year-end Christian & gospel top 10s. By Keith Caulfield All of Billboard’s 2025 ...

The devil is in the details. An AI-generated Christian artist named Solomon Ray has taken the gospel music world by storm after topping the iTunes and Billboard charts with his album “Faithful Soul.” ...

Patti Smith has created a memoir which reads more like a gospel or beat prose-poem than a conventional autobiography. Which is, of course, entirely in keeping with the oeuvre that has made Smith such ...

What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an AI-artist? That’s the feeling some gospel fans are having as Solomon Ray, an ...

Washington’s 1989 invasion of Panama is often invoked as a model for dealing with Nicolás Maduro today. But the analogy goes only so far. In Panama, U.S. forces were already stationed in the Canal ...

Rwandan gospel singer Gloriose Musabyimana, widely known by her stage name Gogo, has died in Uganda at the age of 36. Her death occurred on the night of Wednesday, September 3, 2025, following a short ...

Viewers without cable can watch the 40th annual “Stellar Gospel Music Awards” live and on demand for free by using streaming services that offer BET, including Philo (7-day free trial) and DirecTV ...

Robert Plant has released the second song from his upcoming album, Saving Grace. "Gospel Plough" closes the LP, his first with the band Saving Grace; the record comes out on Sept. 26. The traditional ...

Inspired in part by a book she published last year, the singer and songwriter reveals more of herself on “Tasha,” an album blending gospel and pop. By Robert M. Marovich “Tasha,” the new album from ...

DENTON — The fourth free gospel concert of the eight-concert series is set to take place at Calvary Baptist Church in Denton on Friday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. Russ Yates, vice president of Holiday Park ...

Young Thug continues to have a problem with rappers who cooperate with the law. On Monday (July 7), the Atlanta rapper took to X to deliver a message for certain rappers that he deems snitches and ...