19-year-old new artist, singer-songwriter and social media phenom Kelontae Gavin earned 4 Stellar Award nominations announced on January 15.<\/p>\n
Gavin earned nods for Male Vocalist of the Year<\/strong>, Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year<\/strong>, Contemporary CD of the Year<\/strong> and Praise and Worship Album of the Year<\/strong> for his chart-topping freshman live album The Higher Experience<\/em>(MBE\/Tyscot Records).<\/p>\n Additionally, Gavin’s smash single “No Ordinary Worship” continues to gain momemtum at radio spending 17 weeks on Billboard Gospel Airplay chart this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 19-year-old new artist, singer-songwriter and social media phenom Kelontae Gavin earned 4 Stellar Award nominations announced on January 15. Gavin earned nods for Male Vocalist of the Year, Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year, Contemporary CD of the Year and Praise and Worship Album of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3400,23,2885,3401,2889,264],"tags":[3335,3336,4614,4200,300],"class_list":["post-12744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-news-and-updates","category-artists","category-awards","category-entertainment","category-events","category-music","category-stellar-awards","tag-higher","tag-kelontae-gavin","tag-mbe","tag-no-ordinary-worship","tag-tyscot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/57DF01D9-6F18-4317-B82C-AA556037298B-e1517965278289.jpeg?fit=500%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13251,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/kelontae-gavin-delivers-new-single\/","url_meta":{"origin":12744,"position":0},"title":"Kelontae Gavin Delivers New Single","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"May 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"With a fresh new look 20 year-old social media phenom and chart-topping independent recording artist Kelontae Gavin has released his new radio single \"There's No One Like You,\" to gospel radio. 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