Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s always a kerfuffle when gospel artists cross over to secular music, but Sapp’s new EP arrives under special circumstances.

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was singing all the time. He sang in church. He sang R&B with his buddies. But then his mother told him he had to make a choice.

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Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

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In a widely shared video, a Delta flight attendant told the gospel singer Bobbi Storm that she would be removed if she would not listen to his instructions to be quiet. By Amanda Holpuch A gospel ...

Gospel superstar Marvin Sapp is going secular — if only for a few songs. His new mini-album is called "If I Were an R&B Singer." MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was ...