He is one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound.

Blues, modern pop, funk and gospel sounds are mixed throughout the score, sometimes within the same song.

In 1954 Charles began merging gospel sounds and instruments with lyrics that addressed more secular issues.

He channelled a gospel sound, black America, ate it up, Britain followed and then the whole world.

Thanks to Arch Bishop Idahosa who was open to all God had for his people, the gospel sound would never be the same.

Their contemporary gospel sound reached beyond the traditional African American base and touched a racially and musically diverse audience.

When he came back, he adopted the harder gospel sound of his youth, to compete with rock and roll and the emerging soul sound.

A writer of the magazine Rolling Stone praised the video saying that it founds the band "pushing their secular gospel sound to an explosive extreme."

This is the gospel sound of American yoga, expressed in the music of Krishna Das.

Gospel Sound With concerts on both ends of the Island, it's easy to celebrate the season today with gospel music.