The Zion Deliverance Tabernacle of Grace Church, of New Bedford. The Union Baptist Church Combined Choir, of New Bedford. N.J. The J.C. Jammers, a New Bedford trio of gospel rappers. In addition, young people from the city's United House of Prayer will perform a holiday skit. The appeal of gospel stems from its contributions to so much of the rest of American music, he says.
Gospel is the route to all our music.
We know that jazz, pop, rock, rhythm and blues, hip-hop and rap all sprang from some kind of gospel at some point. His goal in going beyond his own church to recruit choirs from other Christian houses of worship was to smooth the divisions. It's getting away from separation. I do it for God, first, and the people, second. If God's smiling, everybody else has to.