by Kim Lawton | Feb 14, 2011 | News
(RNS) Prominent Gospel singer and longtime Billy Graham associate George Beverly Shea will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards this weekend (Feb. 12) in Los Angeles. Shea will be honored along with several other Lifetime Achievement...
by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 11, 2010 | News
(RNS) Albertina Walker, a singer known as the “queen of gospel” because she launched the careers of other gospel artists, died Friday (Oct. 8) at the age of 81. Walker founded The Caravans, a Chicago-based gospel group that included such luminaries as Shirley Caesar...