Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s always a kerfuffle when gospel artists cross over to secular music, but Sapp’s new EP arrives under special circumstances.

It’s not a foreign concept for gospel artists to turn secular in music, but it definitely garners attention when a bishop takes the helm. Fort Worth’s Marvin Sapp has gone R&B – temporarily – with a ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was singing all the time. He sang in church. He sang R&B with his buddies. But then his mother told him he had to make a choice.

A new museum two decades in the making is telling the story of black musical genres through the lens of American history. The National Museum of African American Music, which opened with a virtual ...

ST. LOUIS — Singer David Peaston, who had a string of R&B hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has died, his family said Thursday. Peaston, 54, died Wednesday of complications from diabetes, his ...