Music

Episode 115 – Montell Jordan

History:The Billboard Top Ten Songs chart for 1995 contains the following names: Coolio, TLC, Seal, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Madonna, and a man named Montell Jordan. This Is How We Do It was a breakout new jack-swing song that topped the Hot 100 for seven weeks and R&B charts for eight. Jordan, tall and…

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Episode 114 – Demetrius Daniels

Demetrius Daniels was born on October 8, 1975, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was raised in a family that deeply valued music, with his parents, Stanley Daniels and Juanita Hayes, being deeply rooted in gospel music. Demetrius, along with his two younger brothers, grew up attending Church of the First Born Saints, which was their family’s…

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Episode 113 – CJ Warfield

Music has always been a part of CJ Warfield’s life. His family consists of singers, musicians, producers, and songwriters.   His parents exposed him and his siblings to genres from Gospel, Classical, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Funk, and Neo-Soul. He even got into Hip-Hop after listening to OutKast’s Jazzy Bells.   CJ’s love for music flourished…

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Episode 109 – Russ Shanks

Divinely raised in the streets of South Baltimore, MD, Russ Shanks blends a classic street style with the message of a Disciple. His edgy and aggressive style is the key factor to his continued growth and stage presence, which captures his audience’s attention from the introduction to the final performance. Through his diligence, Russ Shanks…

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Episode 103 – Richea Hodge

Ritchea Hodge is a Canadian gospel artist born and raised in Brampton, Ontario, who made her stamp in the music scene as a lead singer in MADE Music Group. This worship collective, which shares a unique passion for music and community, allowed Ritchea to step out as a background vocalist and take on a lead…

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Episode 102 – Ariel Fitz-Patrick

Ariel Fitz-Patrick resides in Montreal, Canada, and has been known by her Canadian followers as one part of a duo known as the Fitz-Patrick Sisters. Ariel has been singing at a young age. It did not take her parents long to realize that they had ‘something special” in their daughter. Alongside her sister, they made…

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Episode 089 – William T. Starzz

In a recent interview on BWGR Radio with Elder Mckenzie on his upcoming CD, including the new release video Going In,” Christian rapper William T. Starzz convincedly delivers inspirational music through a rhythmical flow lively composed of penetrating spiritually illuminative Christian hip hop bars. Born in Virginia in 1979, as William Taylor Womack Jr., the…

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Episode 084 – XIIITH DISCIPLE

Born to the universe, Derrick C. Gillis, Jr., aka, XIIITH Disciple, from the womb of an actress, model, dancer, among other limitless abilities of a mother whom many would refer to as a genius, as well as the son of a brilliant, athletic father that would soon discard his business suits and vice-president position at…

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Episode 079 – Lisa Foster Wilson

Imagine a voice classical trained, and driven with the pure emotion of the Gospel paired with contemporary Neo Soul/R&B Flavor; this is the voice and music of Lisa Foster Wilson. This daughter of a preacher, classically trained vocalist since age 14 with a Bachelor of Music degree in Opera released her debut single “I’m Taking…

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Podcast. Life. And Fears.

I begin this podcast, to promote a book, I’ve wanted to write for over two decades. I’d always put it off. Always made excuses. Then God blessed me with a man, my husband, and he told me that I could stop working a make my dreams come true. I wanted to explore all forms of…

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