Product Description: Includes free online access to the Your Best Destiny Personal Assessment Tool!Perhaps you sense that your life is missing something. Maybe you just noticed it, or maybe you’ve lived with a feeling of frustration for years. Whatever led you to this point, you can’t help feeling hungry for more — but for what, exactly? Wintley Phipps knows what you’re seeking — and how to find it...read more

Product Description: “A biography that will send readers back to the music of Mavis and the Staple Singers with deepened appreciation and a renewed spirit of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)—from the acclaimed music journalist and author featured prominently in the new HBO documentary Mavis!This is the untold story of living legend Mavis Staples—lead singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the civil rights era...read more

'In this celebration, award-winning songwriter and performer Gloria Gaither reveals the stories behind the popular Gaither songs of the last half-century.'--Provided by the publisher.

A gospel music composer discusses his childhood, ambition to become a gospel singer, frustrating years as a school teacher, and pursuit of his dream, which led to a Grammy-winning career and a fuller realization of his faith.

Drawing on interviews with and reminiscences of family and colleagues, a portrait of Rosetta Tharpe traces the life and career of the pioneering gospel singer, songwriter, recording artist, and guitar prodigy and examines her influence on the musicians of her era and on the careers of other women in popular music. Reprint.

Shares the stories behind twenty-five of the Gaither family's Christmas songs in a volume complemented by holiday recipes, seasonal poetry, a collection of Christmas prayers, and a sing-along CD.

Product Description: ”From time to time, I felt my life separate from me as though it belonged to someone else. It was as if I were fulfilling a role that seemed familiar but, in truth, was not my own.”―Margaret Becker, in Coming Up for AirHow did I end up here? Has that question ever flashed through your mind? Perhaps you feel as though life has just pushed you along, leaving your dreams and aspirations in its wake...read more

Product Description: Biography -- Music--> "I messed up," Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. "These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A soaring account of one gospel music's hottest acts takes readers back to the 1920s in search of the music that emerged from the South and helped shape contemporary American music in the latter half of the twentieth century. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Delker, Del, Wade, Kenneth R.

Product Description: Here is a firsthand account of how a young black boy struggling in the cotton fields of Texas pursues his passionate love of music. How can he make his God-given dream come true in the face of racial hatred and discrimination? How can a young female African slave, brutally torn from her twin sister on the auction block, keep alive the faith to be reunited with that sister more than one hundred years later? This book is a slice of history straight from the hearts of those who lived it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: But the author's ability to weave everyday events into the journey gives readers a new and unique way to sift through universally difficult issues in real-life context.Sometimes humorous and always honest stories from Billy's own life get to the heart of the matter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In 1960, four young men went into a Chicago recording studio and revolutionized the sound of African American gospel music. When they made that groundbreaking recording, the Pilgrim Jubilees had been singing together for more than ten years. Today they are still singing, and they are still at the forefront of gospel music. The Pilgrim Jubilees is their story, told in their words. From their beginnings in rural Houston, Mississippi, through the good times and the hard times of more than half a century traveling the "gospel highway" they have played a pivotal role in shaping an entire musical genre. Today, based in Chicago, they stand as senior statesmen of gospel music. The Pilgrim Jubilees know the pitfalls and hardships of their calling. They tell of arriving in a distant town so short of money they can't afford to refuel the car, then discovering their concert has been canceled. They recall singing their hearts out, then finding that the promoter has absconded with the money. They remember the days when racism meant that even a gospel singer could land in jail simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And they recount the joys of the gospel life--the elation of having a record at the top of the charts, the companionship within the group and with the people to whom they sing, and above all, the drive to keep spreading the Christian message that has sustained them through the hundreds of thousands of miles they have traveled. And all of these elements--the highs, the lows; the successes, the failures; the spiritual, the worldly--are the subjects the Pilgrim Jubilees talked candidly and at length about to New Zealand journalist and gospel researcher Alan Young when he spent several weeks at home and on the road with them. The result--The Pilgrim Jubilees--is the first full-length book on an African American gospel quartet. It's an illuminating look at the lives of the singers and musicians in the Pilgrim Jubilees. For fifty years they have shone in a unique world where showbiz meets religion and the "Jubes" are stars. Alan Young is a journalist in Auckland, New Zealand. He wrote Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (University Press of Mississippi).

A popular host of a televised gospel program reviews his twenty-five years in the gospel music world, reminiscing about his poverty-blighted background, and discusses such friends as Aretha Franklin, the Winans, and Barbara Mandrell. 25,00 first printing. (view table of contents)

Following up the success of Because He Lives, the popular gospel singer reveals the inspiration behind thirty of her most beloved songs. (view table of contents)

The Grammy Award-winning gospel singer shares a message of hope, love, and inspiration in a memoir that describes her life, her marriage, her rise to success, her friendship with Whitney Houston, and her faith in God. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Ranging from wildly hilarious to painfully honest, this collection of thought-provoking observations shares glimpses of heaven witnessed everyday by focusing on the (sometimes wacky) beauty of relatives, life after tragedy, God's amazing grace, and more.