Hey folks, last night the  2 day memorial festivities  for Bishop Walter Hawkins began with the memorial concert “The Man, The Music, The Ministry: A Musical Salute to Bishop Walter Hawkins” . I wanted to make it to Oakland  to attend but prior commitments and logistics just didn’t allow it, but thankfully our good friend of the blog BJ Daniels was able to attend and was willing to recap the night for us for those who didn’t make it. As I’m sure most of you know, I’m pretty active on the social media platform “Twitter” and it’s proven to be a rather remarkable way to bring people together and share information. Although most of us were unable to be at last night’s concert, you were able to get some updates of what was going on from different people on twitter. For example, the program photo tot he right was captured and posted by gospel artist DeWayne Woods. And our guest blogger today, BJ Daniels was able to offer his recap to me via twitter when he realized that I wasn’t there. How dope is that!

BJ Daniels is an administrator at Greater Mt. Calvary Holy Church, Washington, DC, graphic designer, former gospel radio announcer and gospel enthusiast. He also has his own blog, so you should check it out here!

***passes mic to BJ Daniels*** Read the rest of this entry »

More details are coming in for the funeral/homegoing celebration of Walter Hawkins. Some of gospel and even r&b’s most talented and influential artists are coming to salute and pay tribute to Hawkins.

“The Man, The Music, The Ministry: A Musical Salute to Bishop Walter Hawkins” – Tuesday July, 20 @ 7:30 p.m.

Masters Of Ceremonies: Bebe Winans, Marvin Winans, & Dr. Bobby Jones Read the rest of this entry »

Finally, my recap on the Sunday Best 3 finale. I don’t know if you remember from last year, but I always get a little “emo” at the last episode of Sunday Best. We know it’s going to end but we still miss it and wish it wouldn’t. Well, here we go! Read the rest of this entry »

It’s the next to last episode of Sunday Best 3 and y’all know I’m feeling some kind of way, right? You always know the show wwill eventually end but it doesn’t make it any less bittersweet (I’ve been using that word a lot lately, Jesus be a thesaurus all around me every day.) What am I going to do on Sunday nights? How am I going to get my fix? Ahhhhhhhhh! But let’s get to the show. Read the rest of this entry »

Sup folks. Me again!

As you all know, auditions for Sunday Best 3 were a little different this year.  For the first time ever, we had the BET.com Digital VIP Suite sponsored by Ford in every U.S. audition city where a select group of 150 contestants were able to audition.  In the VIP Suite, my guest judges and I were able to handpick who would go to the final round of judging. My guest judges for Detroit were Sunday Best 2 finalists Jessica Reedy, Camille Betton and R&B/Soul STAR Ledisi. Check out the clip below to see what went down in the VIP Room in Detroit! Yeah I know, the Detroit auditions already aired…. Well, there were some back-end issues that kept me from getting the video to you earlier but it’s here now so don’t trip!  This Sunday, check back for Philly’s Digital VIP Suite Recap. Watch now! Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, so we’re stateside again. Welcome to the Detroit auditions.  It’s so coooooold in the D! (Nah, it really was!)

Now I’m going to go ahead and get this out.  Yes, there were a lot more great singers that auditioned than what you saw. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re baaaaaaackkkkkkkk! It seems like it’s been forever and just like yesterday all at the same time since we last crowned Y’Anna Crawley as the winner of Sunday Best 2. Now the search of the next Sunday Best is ON again! Well, the wait is over. So let’s just get down to it. Read the rest of this entry »

Sup folks.  It’s been a busy couple of weeks as we gear up for the premiere of Sunday Best 3!

The BET.com Digital VIP Room presented by the folks at Ford was a beast.  We went to Detroit, New Orleans and Philadelphia looking for the gospel’s next star.  And let me just say, it was something…. else.  There were some GREAT singers, some good singers and some “special” singers.  But we had a great time! Read the rest of this entry »

Sup folks. Me again.  Don’t clap, just worship!” (That is a Celebration Of Gospel inside joke that, if you remember past years, will hit you later, lol)

But anyway, I’m back with some more highlights from Day 2 of rehearsals for Celebration Of Gospel 2010. (Forgive my tacky picture taking skills, lol.) Read the rest of this entry »

Sup folks, so there have been a few changes to the performer line-up for Celebration of Gospel 2010 and you know I had to make sure I gave you the most up to date info, so you wouldn’t be looking at your TV thinking “umm, Torrence, what happened to?” or “Why didn’t you mention so and so would be there.”  Here’s the updated list.  The show is shaping up just nicely! Read the rest of this entry »