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About Cheryl Jackson

When it comes to the inspiration brand, Cheryl Jackson is one of the nation's leading media personalities in the format. A trailblazer in the field, she created the first Urban Inspiration Radio Station in the United States while programming Heaven 1580 in Washington DC.

Urban inspiration is a lifestyle driven music format that fuses Pop, R&B, gospel and Contemporary Christian music with today's trending news and current affairs, all with an inspirational twist. Major media outlets have adopted this brand of programming throughout the world, in hopes of marketing their product to mainstream advertisers.

As an champion for the gospel and urban inspiration brand, she was and is instrumental breaking some of the major gospel artists in their quest to establish their careers while coming to the DMV.

A 2x Stellar Award winning radio personality herself, she is the Executive Producer for the nationally syndicated radio show, “Get Up Mornings with Erica Campbell”. She can be heard on Praise 104.1 FM in Washington DC for her highly rated radio show, "Cheryl Jackson in the Midday''; and worldwide on Urban One's Inspiration Network. Most importantly, she’s a wife, a mother, a friend, and a daughter of the King

    Today, Donald Lawrence introduced a brand new Hezekiah Walker single on his page.  This is what he tweeted” Wassup Everybody…here it is New Bishop Hezekiah Walker single “Every Praise” produced by yours truly…MD Jules B. Chek out and let me know what you think.  I gotta tell you….I LOVE IT!

  Entertainment One (eOne) has entered into an exclusive partnership agreement with Quiet Water Entertainment to produce and release the long-awaited, and highly anticipatedDonald Lawrence 20th year in music projects. The announcement was made today, March 6. This two-CD event project with Lawrence’s Quiet Water Entertainment, and eOne Musicwill feature live recordings of beloved hits together with […]

The album features a freshly-formed guy group comprised of Fred Hammond, Dave Hollister, Eric Roberson and Brian Courtney Wilson. The full project is available for pre-order on Amazon now! Don’t forget the new United Tenors album is due on March 26th. The album’s lead single is “Here In Our Praise.”

One of the premiere families of Gospel music are heading to reality TV.  “Bishop J. Drew Sheard, his wife GRAMMY Award Winning  Karen Clark Sheard of,  ‘The Clark Sisters”, and their talented children , Stellar Award Winning Gospel Artist Kierra Sherad, and Producer J. Drew “JDS” Sheard, will star in “The Sheards” . The  show […]

  This week Pastor CJ Blair talks about the increase of senseless deaths that we’ve experienced in Prince Georges County.  His commentary shares all of the struggles that we’ve gone through regarding Jim Crow Laws of the civil rights movement.  Pastor Blair observes the biggest struggle today doesn’t come from what others have done to […]

According to AlwaysAlist.com, there is good news for Grammy-winning singing sisters Mary Mary. The gospel duo’s self-titled reality show has just been renewed for a third season. WE tv announced today that the women’s network has ordered 10 episodes of the one-hour show that chronicles the life of the chart-topping music group. “We’re so excited about […]

According to www.AlwaysAlist.com, “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss is catching some flack from Christian conservatives who are criticizing her decision to record a gospel song. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, who formerly sang in the R&B group Xscape, shared her desire to return to her Gospel roots on a recent episode of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” Burruss […]

  I serving as a preliminary judge for BET  Sunday Best, it is back for season 6 and the audition dates and locations are as follows: Atlanta, GA Saturday, February 23 Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church 4650 Flat Shoals Parkway Decatur, GA 30034 Chicago, IL Saturday, March 9 New Faith Baptist Church 25 South Central Avenue Matteson, […]

According to AlwaysAList. com It appears as though Tyler Perry has completely ending his relationship with TBS, the network that helped him launch his sitcoms “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” and “Meet The Browns.” In a surprising move, the Hollywood mogul is uprooting his series “For Better or Worse” from TBS and taking it to Oprah Winfrey’s OWN channel. […]

  Timothy Wright was born June 17, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, where his family attended St. John’s Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God.  It was there that he began playing piano at the age of 12 and also began to compose music for the church’s choir.  By 1969, he had moved on to Bishop […]

Clay Evans was once known as Jessie Jackson‘s personal pastor through a popular television commercial promoting music in the 1970’s, but gospel fans have long known him as a great traditional gospel artist who has created gospel gems such as “Room At The Cross”.  Born on June 23, 1925, Brownsville, Tennessee, Evans was three years […]

  Known as the Prince of Gospel, Kee picked up where Rev. James Cleveland left off when he passed away in 1991.  Although there are modern elements to his music, Kee has largely kept the traditional black choir style that Cleveland popularized alive and well with such songs as “Show Up”, “New Life”, and “Wash […]