Press Release

Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy accepting enrollment for 2008-09 school year. Open House Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 1:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Marvin Winans "Survivor" Contest - Auditions to be held Saturday, February 2 & 16, at
Perfecting Church, 7616 E. Nevada, Detroit, MI 48234. Call Perfecting Church today at (313) 365-3787 or go to
www.perfectingchurch.org. For complete contest rules please visit the website or call Perfecting Church. Finalist event held on Monday, March 3, 2008, 7PM, at Marvin L. Winans Academy of Performing Arts Auditorium.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference will host its 26th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, the weekend of Jan. 19-21.

Sony Pictures is looking for the best Gospel choir in America ! If you think your choir has what it takes, come out and compete in the FIRST SUNDAY Gospel Challenge the weekend of December 15th. Choirs will have to perform an original three minute version of either “O Holy Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful" or "Joy To The World." The winning choir will qualify for a chance to win $10,000!

For complete rules and more details about events in DETROIT please contact
Melissa Blum at 248-594-5321. FIRST SUNDAY starring Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams, and Loretta Devine, opens January 11th in theaters everywhere! For other markets' contacts click below.

Detroit's own Clark Sisters, J Moss, Marvin Winans, CeCe Winans, Aretha Franklin, BeBe Winans, and Fred Hammond; and Michigan's own Marvin Sapp are all up for 2008 Grammy Awards. Congratulations to our hometown artists. For details, click below.

Hollywood, CA -- The nominations for the 50th annual Grammy Awards were announced on December 6, 2007.

Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, The Christianaires, Marie Knight, Bishop Kenneth Moales, Bishop G.E. Patterson, Norma Jean Pender, Ernestine Rundless & The Meditation Singers and The Staples Singers are this year's inductees to the International Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Museum (IGMHFM).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-Detroit Michigan--The lead single, "Nothing New" (produced by Leon Jones of The Resurrection) was released July 11 to both urban adult and mainstream radio. This project includes additional production by Fred Hammond, Michael Novak and Dave Roberson.

Detroit, Mich. - Mark your calendars and get your tickets NOW! The world renowned Whitfield Company will celebrate 30-years of unparalleled, music ministry with, "This Journey."

Music legend Aretha Franklin, whose career began singing in the Detroit church of her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin at the age of 14 in the 1950s, will give back to those gospel roots as she leads a Revival for her hometown of Detroit for the third consecutive year.

One of the founding members of '90s gospel super group Winans Phase 2, Marvin Winans Jr. has officially launched his own recording label, M2 Entertainment with an exclusive agreement with Central South Distribution.