We celebrate with the wins at The Gospel Music Association Dove Awards which was held Tuesday night at Lipscomb University's Allen Arena in Nashville.
Artist of the Year: Lauren Daigle
New Artist of the Year: Aaron Cole
Grammy® Award winner Tasha Cobbs Leonard releases her brand new song, ‘Great God,’ for download and streaming on all digital platforms today. The new release comes in the middle of a whirlwind weekend of high-profile performances and appearances during BET Awards weekend in Los Angeles, CA. The top-selling, multiple award winning artist shared the song in advance of her ambitious third album, HEART. PASSION. PURSUIT. due out later this summer on Motown Gospel.
Perfectly suited for today’s trying times, the joyful, happy tune, ‘Great God‘ is a welcomed reminder of God’s goodness and incessant faithfulness. Written by Cobbs Leonard and produced by Kenneth Leonard, Jr., “Great God” promises to be a congregational favorite, and is the perfect lead-in to her forthcoming album.
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3Days Ago BET announced list of nominee’s. This events is coming up 26th, June 2016.
Dr. Bobby Jones BET Gospel/Inspirational Award
Anthony Brown & Group Therapy
Erica Campbell
Kirk Franklin
Lecrae
Tamela Mann
Tasha Cobbs
Top Christian Artist:
Casting Crowns
Lauren Daigle
Hillsong United
MercyMe
Chris Tomlin
Top Gospel Artist:
Anthony Brown and group therAPy
Tasha Cobbs
Kirk Franklin
Travis Greene
Marvin Sapp
Christian Album:
Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be
Hillsong UNITED, Empires
Joey + Rory, Hymns That Are Important To Us
TobyMac, This Is Not A Test
Chris Tomlin, Adore: Christmas Songs of Worship
Top Gospel Album:
Anthony Brown & group therAPy, Everyday Jesus
Tasha Cobbs, One Place Live
Kirk Franklin, Losing My Religion
Jonathan McReynolds, Life Music: Stage Two
Marvin Sapp, You Shall Live
“I am a living witness that you can be freed and you can be cured and healed from it,” Cobbs said.
“I’ve been very active in ministry all of my life. Just always been a hard worker. So I think throughout those years sometimes you can develop habits and ways of life that are not so healthy for you; but you’re not aware of it because you’re so busy focused on careers and other things,” Cobbs said during an interview with The Huffington Post. “So I believe that, for years, that was something that was building up and maybe I didn’t focus on it until that one day, in 2010, when I was at home lying in the bed, and I realized that I’ve been there for three days in a dark room with the curtains closed and the covers over my head, and I’m thinking, ‘Ok, Tasha, this is abnormal.’ I think that was the moment when it reached the climax, where it was like ‘you have to deal with this before it becomes a major issue for you moving forward.’”
Following her epiphany, Cobbs was diagnosed with depression after attending her first therapy consultation, where she discussed her various symptoms. Now, the singer says she still attends therapy sessions once every month to make sure she stays “connected” with her therapist.
While there is a stigma attached to mental health issues in the black community and it is often viewed as a taboo topic to even discuss, Cobbs believes the issue should be considered a health priority — similar to other serious medical conditions.
“I think when you say ‘mental health,’ automatically people think ‘I’m not crazy,’ because we haven’t put a definition to exactly what we’re saying,” she said. “I believe when you say ‘it’s a mental health issue,’ it’s like having diabetes or something’s wrong with my toes or whatever the case is — it’s a medical condition and it can be dealt with. Just like you can manage a broken finger, you can manage mental health issues. I am a living witness that you can be freed and you can be cured and healed from it, but you have to first acknowledge that it exists.”
Moving forward, the Grammy Award winner wants to address the treatment of depression in the black community by doing things like hosting therapy sessions at church conferences for people who may never have considered seeking therapy in the past.
“I believe churches will begin to open up their doors for more focus on this,” she said.
As the singer continues her own journey to wellness, she is preparing for the April 8th release of a complimentary DVD to support her second album, “One Place Live,” which was released in 2015 and landed on top of Billboard’s Gospel and Christian album charts. This DVD, which will have the same title, features live performances and interview footage.
BET has announced that its flagship Celebration of Gospel will return in January of 2016, again hosted by Taraji P. Henson!
The long-standing TV program will be taped at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles on January 9th, premiering on BET on Sunday, January 31st at 8pm ET.A slew of gospel and soul artists are tapped to appear on the program, including:
Kirk Franklin
Chaka Khan
Gladys Knight
Tye Tribbett
Yolanda Adams
Tamela Mann
Erica Campbell
Jonathan McReynolds
Tasha Cobbs
Pastor Shirley Caesar
Donald Lawrence
Travis Greene
Tank
Kurt Carr
Chrisette Michele
Anthony Brown & Group TherAPy
Charles Jenkins & Fellowship Chicago
Dr. Bobby Jones
Jessica Reedy
Heavenly Joy Jerkins
Le’Andria Johnson
Donnie McClurkin
BeBe Winans
Geoffrey Golden
Celebration of Gospel promises to feature some show-stopping performances. Mark your calendars to tune-in on January 31st at 8pm!
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Congrates to all our Dove Award Nominee’s and most especially, Tasha Cobbs., Winning Award
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Tasha Cobbs’ sophomore album has done more than land at the top of Billboard’s gospel and Christian album charts this week, it has also become the most-streamed gospel album of the year thus far.
Cobbs, the 34-year-old Grammy award-winning gospel singer, released her sophomore album One Place Live on Aug. 21, which debuted at No. 28 on the Billboard Top-200 music charts. Two years after her debut album Grace, Cobbs’ fans helped propel her latest project to dominate Billboard gospel charts in the first week of its debut.
“Tasha’s fans have been waiting feverishly for the release of One Place Live. The purity and power of Tasha’s performance have made the wait worthwhile.” “Ken Pennell, president of Motown Gospel, said in a statement shared with The Christian Post.
The songs featured on Cobbs’ latest album stem from a multitude of moments in her worship experience that inspired her to write.
“They are what we call songs of the Lord. I can be leading worship or getting dressed for worship and a song will simply fall on me,” Cobbs said in a previous statement shared with CP. “Some songs are just moment songs, or maybe just four or five words will come, then I’ll go home and finish it.”
Cobbs’ first single, “Jesus Saves” came from a sense of peace that God gave her when she was overcoming depression.
“God spoke to me and gave me peace. Not just spiritual salvation; He saved me from the rejection and depression I used to feel,” Cobbs explained. “Jesus can save you from whatever it is you’re being overtaken by. That’s what this song is about.”
Speaking to Vibe Vixen earlier this year, Cobbs further detailed how she was able to mask her depression in public.
“My testimony is I battled depression and rejection in 2007 and it was very strong. I was ministering at my church every week but I’d go home depressed and rejected,” Cobbs said. “I needed Jesus to save me from that and He absolutely did.
“When I wrote the song, I was kind of torn because it just repeats two words,” Cobbs told Vibe Vixen. “But when I thought about it, it’s the basis of what we believe; that Jesus saves no matter what your situation is, whether needing salvation in general or needing to be saved from anything.”
With two Stellar awards and a Grammy award under her belt, the “Break Every Chain” singer said she wants people to intimately worship God when listening to her music.
“I knew that the songs were life changing and I knew that the songs were designed to bring people into worship,” Cobbs told CP. “I did not think — you know, the Bible says He’ll do above what you can even think or imagine. So my thought was they would bring people into worship but I never thought it would impact the industry as it did. But I’m grateful for that.”
After releasing two critically acclaimed albums, Cobbs said she believes God is bringing attention to people like her in the industry who have been working hard for years before being discovered.
“I believe God is there and God is in the gospel and the Christian music arena. You’re finding now that a lot of new artists are coming up and it seems like they just came from nowhere,” Cobbs said.
“A lot of people say that about me, but what I believe is happening now (that I’m really enjoying) is that God is just kind of putting the spotlight on people who have been working in the trenches or at their church homes or with their parents, kind of like I call them the ‘Davids.’ They’ve been out of the field and that’s their opportunity for God to put the spotlight on them and use them’ so that’s what I’m enjoying about the industry right now.”
