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Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) announces the signing of Gospel superstar, award-winning beloved pastor and radio host Hezekiah Walker, as he prepares to release his fifteenth album. Hezekiah Walker delivers a highly-anticipated return with the release of his new smash hit single 'Better,' available beginning today, March 4th, and launching at radio on March 7th.

Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) celebrates a chart-topping year in music, with 26 nominations in 19 categories for the upcoming 31st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. 

Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) celebrates a chart-topping year in music, with 26 nominations in 19 categories for the upcoming 31st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. 

Joyful Noise: A Gospel Christmas featuring Salem Baptist Church returns to the Holland Performing Arts Center this December. Omaha Performing Arts in collaboration with Salem Baptist Church presents two performances of this holiday tradition on December 6 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in the acoustically-renowned Kiewit Concert Hall of the Holland Performing Arts Center, 1200 Douglas St.

McDonald's Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour (ICGT) is coming to Philadelphia for a free night of inspiration.

On Friday July 17, 2015, music icon Karen Clark Sheard makes a powerful declaration of praise and victory with the release of her highly-anticipated new album Destined To Win, with album pre-ordering available now.  Ushering in her sixth solo project and her second solo album to be released on her record label Karew Records, the 4-time GRAMMY-winning gospel superstar's renowned voice and captivating performance style come together before a packed audience of listeners to create a powerhouse live album experience on the 10-track album.

Sound of the House Records proudly announces the release of Freddy Rodriguez's new single, "Amazed" and its accompanying lyric video hosted on YouTube

Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) dominated this year's 30th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards taped on March 28th in Las Vegas, winning half of the 28 categories with a total of 14 awards including most of the major categories: Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Albertina Walker Female Vocalist of the Year, Choir of the Year and CD of the Year. Celebrating wins for the #1 hits from Erica Campbell, Ricky Dillard, William McDowell and Michelle Williams, career honors were also bestowed with Bishop Paul S. Morton receiving the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award, and Pastor Shirley Caesar and Ricky Dillard inducted into the 2015 inaugural class of Stellar Honors honorees with special medallions. Scroll down for photos from the post-awards celebration!

McDonald's USA today announced the ninth annual return of its Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour.

The iconic voice and prolific ministry of Karen Clark Sheard creates another modern classic, as the 4-time Grammy Award®-winning gospel legend releases her latest new single, “My Words Have Power”

Hosting a Billboard #1 Gospel Hits album celebration in Chicago, eOne Music welcomed a packed crowd of fans and tastemakers to Angels & Kings at the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago on Thursday February 26th, where the night included a meet and greet with gospel artist, and Chicago pastor Charles Jenkins, whose hit song “Awesome” with Fellowship Chicago, is among the #1 hits featured on the compilation.

Artist Anne Kerry Swank's limited edition Angel watercolor photographs series now hangs in the Vatican, Rome, after a twenty-year journey of the artist that began with a morning prayer to God and Divine Inspiration.

Acclaimed Gospel superstar, choir master, songwriter and producer Ricky Dillard makes a splash on the charts with the release of his new live album with New G, Amazing, debuting at #1 atop Billboard's Gospel Albums Chart and at #1 on the Top Gospel & Christian (combined) Chart, as well as #28 on the Billboard 200.

Entertainment One Music has signed celebrated artist, songwriter and worshipper Todd Dulaney to its award-winning Gospel roster.

?Entertainment One Music announces two nominations for award-winning Gospel superstarsPastor Shirley Caesar and Donald Lawrence, in the category of Outstanding Gospel Album for the upcoming 45th NAACP Image Awards

The nominees for THE 45TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS were announced today during a live press conference at the TV One presentation to the Television Critics Association during its Winter 2014 Press Tour in Pasadena, CA. David Oyelowo ('Lee Daniels' 'The Butler'), Joe Morton (ABC's 'Scandal'), Keke Palmer (VH1's 'CrazySexyCool'), Bresha Webb (TV One's 'Love That Girl') and Gina Torres (USA's 'Suits') announced the categories and nominees with NAACP Image Awards Committee Chairman, Leonard James and President and CEO of TV One, Alfred Liggins.

Nominations for the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced tonight by The Recording Academy and reflected one of the most diverse years for the best and brightest in music.

Jay Z tops the nominations with nine; Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Justin Timberlake, and Pharrell Williams each garner seven nods; Drake and mastering engineer Bob Ludwig are up for five awards.

Entertainment One Music (eOne Music), continues to inspire fans and drive the sounds of gospel among a diverse range of leading artists today, garnering 11 Stellar Awards nominations among 6 artists for the upcoming 29th Stellar Gospel Music Awards. Carrying the hit sounds of gospel worldwide, from solo artists to choirs, eOne Music's winning roster of songs from Bishop Paul S. Morton, Shirley Caesar, Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, Donald Lawrence, Dexter Walker & Zion Movement, and Hart Ramsey & The NCC Family Choir, are nominated across 10 categories, including Artist of the Year and Song of the Year. Bishop Paul S. Morton and his acclaimed album, Best Days Yet (Tehillah Music/Light Records/Entertainment One) leads the nominations with four, plus a nomination for Donald Lawrence as songwriter, followed by two nominations for Shirley Caesar and two nominations for Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, and one nomination apiece for Dexter Walker & Zion Movement and Hart Ramsey & The NCC Family Choir.

Tonight July 27, SummerStage will present a Gospel Explosion with Shirley Caesar, Donald Lawrence, James Fortune and F.I.Y.A., Erica Campbell (of Mary Mary) and Ricky Dillard at Central Park, Manhattan. Recommended arrival time is 3:00 p.m. Showtime is 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. and admittance is free.