On April 3, the GRAMMY-winning Kronos Quartet will release Glorious Mahalia via Smithsonian Folkways, a new album honoring the life, voice, and activism of New Orleans–born gospel legend Mahalia ...

Founded over a half century ago, the Kronos Quartet may look like a classical quartet but time and time again they trick us with their chameleon-like output. They color outside the lines of ...

In the 1940s and '50s, Jackson was the most famous gospel singer in the world. A new record, Moving On Up A Little Higher, presents never-released... New Album Offers A Varied Introduction To 'Queen ...

Mahalia Jackson didn't start out with aspirations of becoming the queen of gospel music. She was listening to blues in her earliest days, specifically the songs of Bessie Smith, the empress of the ...

To say that Mahalia Jackson had a heavenly voice may benefit heaven more than the singer. Jackson might not have invented gospel music, but she popularized it, making it respectable when many of the ...