When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life,” Etta James once told the Los Angeles ... in the foster care system and was “singing gospel songs” at her Baptist church by age 5, she told ...

James Lewis "Sonny" Harrell, Jr., 69 ... Along with other projects Sonny wrote several gospel songs, as well as a book about his mother's ministry. In his free time, Sonny was an avid outdoorsman ...

Years before James Brandon ... celebration of gospel vocal legend Mahalia Jackson. Music critics are hardly the only close listeners who’ve taken note of Lewis’s music. Sonny Rollins, the ...

More than a decade later, country singer Sonny James took the song to No. 1 in the ... hit of the decade but when it comes to country songs from the 1970s, they don’t get much more iconic ...