The brand new BeBe & CeCe Winans video, “Close To You” is now avaliable for your viewing pleasure. BeBe & CeCe’s new album, “Still”, releases October 6.
           

 
Yolanda has touched audiences worldwide, and they in turn have made their impact upon her. ”I believe that fans enhance your career. They draw out of me what they need and that’s how I’m able to write the songs. It inspires me to feel their love and appreciation. It’s like what Sally Fields said when [...]

 
Tyler Perry wants singers to put their best voice forward in a new vocal competition.  The “I Can Do Good Gospel & Blues Music Video Contest,” in conjunction with Perry’s new movie “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” allows fans to sing for a chance at cash and a BET appearance.

R.J. Cutler’s vibrant and mischievous documentary “The September Issue” is only partly a movie about fashion. At its heart, it’s really a movie about work, about the ways individuals compete with, grate against and inspire one another in the workplace.

 
Kelly Rowland is finally independent. The singer, who spent nearly 10 years with Destiny’s Child, says she’s now living the life she used to sing about. Before breaking up in 2005, Destiny’s Child — which also featured Beyonce Knowles and Michelle Williams— topped charts with girl-power tunes such as Independent Women, the theme from Charlie’s [...]

 
Lighthouse Full Life Center handed out food and backpacks this past Sunday in an effort to help more than 1,600 people. A semi-truck from the nonprofit Feed the Children rolled into the church’s parking lot to kick off the food and toiletry drive. Feed the Children is a national organization that distributes more than 133 [...]

 
Mathew Knowles will be teaching eager undergrads all about the music industry this fall. Mathew is set to teach a course called The Entertainment Industry at the Texas Southern University.

There are giants who walk among ordinary men. Edward (Teddy) Kennedy was one such giant. And, he would be the first to remind us of something his brother Jack once said: “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
Edward M. Kennedy, the iconic “liberal lion” of the U.S. Senate [...]

I remember that Sunday morning 8 years ago, I awoke to “the singer Aaliyah has died in a plane crash,” the news reporter said on the television. My first response was denial. I was ready to go to the news station and set that news reporter straight. “Aaliyah couldn’t be dead, just two days prior [...]

Usher has been splashing himself about magazine covers as of late. He’s been schmoozing and socializing in the lime light and getting camera friendly again. His latest cover success is with Uptown Magazine Fifth Anniversary issue. The cover story reads, Usher Weathers The Storm, an appropriate titled for this time in his life.

A woman went into the Coggin Pontiac dealership in Jacksonville, FL looking to buy a car. But how she tried to pay for the car is what caught the salesman’s attention. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says Emma Harrison, 25, wrote the dealership a check for $67,768 for the purchase of a car, with the names [...]

 
Biggest Loser couple Nicole Brewer and Damien Gurganious have married in New York. The reality stars, who lost a combined 264lbs on the NBC show, tied the knot in front of 125 guests at the Renaissance of Astoria Hall on August 16.
Among those in attendance were fellow contestants Carla Triplett, Jerry and Estella Hayes, and [...]

 
For a woman who loves earrings, necklaces and purses, stepping into Accents by Vickie Winans may be the closest thing to heaven.
The seven-time Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Vickie Winans, seems to be in her element as she takes telephone calls while perched at a high-top glass table in the middle of her shop. Vickie says [...]

 
“In life you have to figure out what matters to you the most… When my little girl look at me what others think of me don’t matter.. Cause I know she absolutely loves her Father.. “
The custody battle between singer Tyrese Gibson and ex-wife Norma Gibson has been finalized. According to court documents, the newly-divorced [...]

 
Eight weeks after the King of Pop was found unconscious, the Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide. The coroner determined a fatal combination of drugs was given to Michael hours before he died June 25 in his rented Los Angeles mansion. Forensic tests found the powerful anesthetic propofol acted together [...]

Over the weekend, August 22, the Rock Church in San Diego, CA hosted the 2009 Christian Music Awards. Dubbed the, “Christian-version of American Idol meets the Grammys,” this annual event honors current Christian Artists. It also recognizes the “Best of the Blessed,” which are stars of the future. This exciting evening was hosted by United [...]

My main goal with the GOSPELCONNOISSEUR.COM is to inspire people. For many years I let circumstances choke my dreams out of me. I spent the majority of my life living an existence that was very unfulfilled. It’s a lost and sad life, when you are not living out your dreams. In most situations your dreams [...]

Entertainment icon and entrepreneur Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Timothy Durham, President of National Lampoon, teamed up to host a luxurious poolside afternoon party to raise money and awareness for the award-winning work of the Ludacris Foundation. The party was held at a private estate in Malibu on Saturday, August 22.

On Saturday (8/22) the Millennium Momentum Foundation’s “National City of Opportunity Initiative” hosted a launch party to benefit high school seniors and college students in Hollywood, California. Millennium Momentum Foundation, Inc. announced that its National Spokesperson will be Actress Tatyana Ali.