About My Father’s Business and Heaven Bound Ministries present The MLK Celebration Of Gospel on Friday, January 17, 2025. This is a gospel concert that will be staged at Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium (525 North Center Street) in Stockton, California.
There will be performances by three powerful Christian voices: Le’Andria Johnson, Zacardi Cortez, and Ricky Dillard. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m., and the show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Click here for tickets.
Atlanta-based Christian rapper, author, and pastor William Lee Barefield III is best known to music fans as Trip Lee, modernizing messages of faith with sleekly produced commercial rap tracks. Lee‘s energetic and spiritually driven albums have regularly found their way onto various Billboard charts, with 2012’s The Good Life cross-pollinating gospel and rap charts, and the subsequent 2014 effort Rise even breaking into the top 20 of the Billboard 200. In 2022, Lee released his sixth studio album, The End, and followed the next year with the mixtape The Epilogue.
Lee was born in Dallas, Texas, where in his teenage years he was a founding member of the Southern Christian rap collective 116 Clique. Lee moved from Dallas to attend various Christian universities, first in Philadelphia, then in Louisville, Kentucky. He made his full-length album debut in 2006 with If They Only Knew. His second album, 2008’s 20/20, featured guests and Reach Records labelmates Lecrae, Tedashii, and Sho Baraka. Not only did it break into the Billboard Top 200, but it also broke into the Top Ten of the Christian albums chart.
His success continued with Between Two Worlds in 2010, his first to top the Billboard Christian charts. His second chart-topper, The Good Life, arrived two years later and also broke onto the rap charts. Lee published a book of the same name months later before announcing his intention to focus his message on ministry. He continued writing and became a pastor. In 2014, he released his fifth album, Rise, his highest-charting Billboard 200 entry (number 16) and his third Top Three Christian chart entry. A second book, Rise: Get Up and Live in God’s Great Story, was released in 2015. Lee‘s mixtape, The Waiting Room, appeared near the end of 2016. In 2022, the sixth album, The End, was released, featuring guest appearances from Taylor Hill, KB, Wande, and others. The next year, a companion mixtape entitled The Epilogue came out, this time with contributions from Madison Ryann Ward and Kirk Franklin.
Initially, Wray & Nephew’s ‘Yesterday – The Best Of The 90s Christmas Party’ was only to feature music by selectors Kurt Riley, DJ Marvin, ZJ Liquid, and Marc Chin. However, the organizers have since added one of the most commercially and critically successful contemporary reggae artists of this generation, Sizzla Kalonji.
‘Yesterday – The Best Of The 90s Christmas Party’ will be held on Saturday, December 21, at Mas Camp in Kingston, Jamaica. The gates will open at 9:00 p.m., and tickets can be purchased on Caribtix.
The fourth staging of Realignment will be on Thursday, December 26th, at the Mandeville Primary and Junior High School Playfield in Manchester. It’s scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. local time, and attendees are encouraged to come out early.
There will be musical presentations by DJ Nicholas, Petra Kaye, Johnmark Wiggan, Prince Saj, Nadine Blair, and Kevin Downswell, who is also the host. American gospel singer and minister Donnie McClurkin is confirmed as the event’s special guest. Click here to buy tickets.
Sgt. Remo collaborates with famed Jamaican reggae star Chezidek on a powerful new single titled “Stand Up,” which was officially released on Friday, December 6, 2024. This compelling new track is now available across all major streaming platforms, allowing a broad audience to engage with its impactful message.
The production and mixing of “Stand Up” were expertly handled by Kutral Dub in Chile, with mastering completed by Oddiowave in Gold Beach, Oregon. The single serves as a poignant commentary on the ongoing wars that afflict various regions around the globe. Notably, it was recorded during an exhilarating period when both Chezidek and Sgt. Remo were in Mexico City for a concert.
“Stand Up” is set to be featured on Sgt. Remo‘s forthcoming album scheduled for release in 2025. This highly anticipated full-length project will also showcase collaborations with other esteemed artists such as Fidel Nadal, Dre Z Melodi, Ras Levy, Soulfiya, Kutral Dub, among others.
Sgt. Remo is a Mexican-born reggae vocalist based in San Antonio, Texas, who has been actively contributing to the reggae scene since 2012. His collaboration with Chezidek not only highlights his artistic versatility but also emphasizes the genre’s role as a vehicle for social commentary and change through music.
Shirley Jones, formerly of the trio The Jones Girls, will perform at Atlanta City Winery’s Holiday Brunch on Sunday, December 15, at 12:00 p.m. local time.
After The Jones Girls disbanded in the mid-1980s, Shirley went on to have a successful solo career. She was offered a contract with Philadelphia International Records and subsequently released the hit single, “Do You Get Enough Love.” The song spent 20 weeks on Billboard’s R&B chart and was followed by a full-length album, “Always In the Mood,” which peaked at No. 8 on Billboard’s Top R&B Albums chart.
First Heritage Co-operative Credit Union will be having their Christmas concert on Thursday, December 12th, at the car park of the Eureka Branch, which is located at 8-10 Eureka Road (at the corner of Ripon & Eureka) in Kingston 5, Jamaica.
This will be staged during the company’s lunch hour; it will start at 11:30 a.m. There will be live performances by Nickeishia Barnes, Carey Sayles, and others, as well as lots of prizes and surprises.
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