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'Sunday Best' Gospel Competition Names Season 2 Winner

From Christian Post

The search for America's next great gospel singer has ended - at least for this year - following an announcement Sunday heralding the winner of BET's televised talent search.
After more than ten weeks of competing in the second season of "Sunday Best," 32-year-old Y'Anna Crawley of Washington, D.C., was dubbed the winner during Sunday's one-hour season finale.
But more than the ten weeks of competition and the five weeks that passed from the time of her audition to her selection, Crawley said she felt like she had been preparing for the moment her entire life.
"Through the ups and downs and highs and lows, God has truly been faithful and I owe it all to Him," she said.

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Wayman Tisdale Dies Today

Former NBA star Wayman Tisdale, who also found success as an award-winning jazz-bass player, died in Tulsa, Okla., today at the age of 44 after a two-year battle with cancer.

Wayman, a 6-foot-9 forward, played with the Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns, averaging 15.3 points during his 12-year career.

The Late Billy Preston at Gospel Celebration 1988

William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Get Back sessions in 1969.

Preston along with Tony Sheridan are the only two non-Beatles to receive billing as an artist alongside the Beatles (as distinct from receiving credit as a session musician on album packaging) on an official Beatles record release. The label of the Get Back single credits the artists on the record as "The Beatles with Billy Preston"...

Preston had battled kidney disease in his later years, brought on by his hypertension. He received a kidney transplant in 2002, but his health continued to deteriorate. He died on June 6, 2006 in Scottsdale, Arizona, of complications of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. He had voluntarily entered a drug rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, Calif., and suffered pericarditis there, leading to respiratory failure that left him in a coma since November 21, 2005.[5] His funeral was held on June 20 at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, California. Preston was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.


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David "Pops" Winans Takes His Rest

David "Pops" Winans, the father and patriarch to the legendary Winans family has passed away. He left this earth on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. He was 74 years old. Pop, as he was affectionately known throughout gospel and the world, had been suffering complications from several strokes that occurred in September and November of last year. Our hearts are with the Winans family, especially our good friend BeBe Winans, at this time and we throw all of our love and support behind them.

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In Memory of Pop Winans

In Memory of the Late Rev. Timothy Wright

REV. TIMOTHY WRIGHT SERVICES

Public Viewing
Saturday May 2nd and Sunday May 3rd

Sat: 12noon to 8pm
Sun: 1pm to 5pm

Both Held at Grace Tabernacle Christian Center COGIC
1745 Pacific Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213
718-778-1845

Home Going Service
Monday MAY 4TH 2009 10AM
Pilgrim Cathedral (Assemblies International)
Bishop Roy E. .
Brown, Pastor
135 Schaefer Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11207
718-452-5180

Gospel Great Detrick Haddon Performs "He's Able" Live