The GMA Dove Awards will take place live and in person in Nashville on Oct. Voting for the winners will run from Aug. This year’s nominees were chosen from more than 2,000 submitted entries. Together we lift one voice – the sound of heaven.” Although our musical styles may be different, our mission is the same. Today we announced this year’s theme, Sound of Heaven. “For the past few years, we’ve chosen a theme for each show that represents our community and why we celebrate. “Congratulations to this year’s impressive list of Dove Awards nominees,” GMA president Jackie Patillo said in a statement. There are just five nominees in each of the other categories. Top nominees include songwriter and producer Jeff Pardo with nine nods Matthew West and Maverick City Music with seven nods each Anne Wilson, Ben Glover, for KING + COUNTRY, Jeff Sojka, Jonathan Smith and Phil Wickham with six nods each and Brandon Lake, Winans, Chandler Moore, Chris Brown (not the R&B star), Jonathan Jay and Steven Furtick with five nods each.īrown and Furtick collaborated on two songs that are in the running for song of the year: “Jireh” and “Rattle!” Brown and Furtick were among the writers of last year’s winner in this category, “The Blessing.” Eleven songs are vying for song of the year. Winans is vying to become just the second Black solo artist - and the first Black female artist - to win in the category. God is waiting for everybody to tap back in. No Church In A While is telling people there’s still hope, you can still turn to God no matter how long you’ve been away.For KING + COUNTRY is vying to become the first act to win artist of the year three years running.
“We just went through the pandemic and ain’t nobody to church in a minute. This album is for everybody who ain’t been to church or connected to God in a while who thinks they can’t go back. “ No Church In A While has all types of meanings,” expresses 1K Phew. The concept for their collaborative album, No Church For A While grew out of their conversations. While.” Lecrae was recording his mixtape, Church Clothes 4, when it occurred to him that people actually hadn’t been to church to even put on those church clothes in a while because of the pandemic, church hurt, and other reasons. Rappers like 1K Phew are carrying forward the torch we lit with ‘Let The Trap Say Amen’ using their music to reach hip-hop heads with a spiritually that’s not forced or foreign to them.”ġK Phew’s new project collaborative album with Lecrae, No Church In A While, features 10 tracks including: “Wildin” “Ready Or Not,” “Move It,” “One Call,” “What We Gon Do,” “Amen,” “Blockhead,” “Born Sinner” “Save Us,” and “No Church In A. “ Our artists at Reach Records are continuing to prove that faith can exist beyond the pews of the church if expressed authentically. Reach Records president and co-founder, Lecrae describes Phew’s sound as hip-hop that is equally at home in the club or the church.
From the emergence of Outkast and Goodie Mob in the early 90s to Ludacris and T.I. at the top of 2000, and more recently with Migos, Young Thug,Gucci Mane, and Future, Atlanta has proven itself to be an inimitable force.Ī new breed of artists taking the trap sensibility and elevating it into a new sound called “Street Gospel,” a term coined by Atlanta based Reach Records artist, 1K Phew. 1K Phew’s smooth delivery, swag, and evocative vocals have an infectious quality that is streetwise yet commercially viable. To say that Atlanta is merely having a moment would be to overlook decades of the region’s impact on hip-hop culture at large.
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