Ruth La’Ontra conveys hope in her rendition of the Grammy® Award winning Thompson Community Singers’ 1992 classic, “In My Name” (ALJR/Tyscot Records). Those lyrics are especially poignant in the age of the coronavirus where millions have been affected and thousands have died. “So, many of
Members of the Grammy® Award winning Thompson Community Singers, or the Tommies, as their fans call them; have come together as The Tommies Reunion. From 1982 through 2001, The Tommies dominated the radio airwaves as America’s No. 1 gospel choir with massive radio hits like
Singer/Songwriter and Master Producer Percy Bady helped to establish the iconic Choir Sound working with the legendary Thompson Community Singers aka the Tommies during the reign of the Choir years. Today, Bady recreates a musical menagerie with God's Got Me, the first single from How
We are pleased to report that quartet is here to stay and continues to live through the collective efforts of Joe Ligon and the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Canton Spirituals, the Williams Brothers, Lee Williams and the Spiritual QCs and newcomers like Zacardi Cortez,
The second annual Chicago Gospel Music Awards will present lifetime achievement awards to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Mavis Staples, Gospel luminaries Rev. Maceo Woods and Apostle Richard D. Henton in addition to honoring Chicago Gospel singers, songwriters and musicians in eleven categories
Maranatha! Music announced today a partnership with Award Winning Producer Percy Bady. Bady will release his own solo projects and spearhead A/R for the Gospel division of Maranatha! Music as the director of Maranatha! Gospel. Bady's first solo CD for Maranatha Gospel will be released
You would have to be living in a vacuum to not remember the glory days of Reverend Milton Brunson's Thompson Community Singers. Affectionately known as the Tommies and hailing from Chicago, Illinois- the Gospel Music Capital of the World, this choir dominated the charts