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Soul Bowl Gospel Celebration Special Leaves BET To Air On Amazon, IMDB & Bounce
After years of airing on BET, the annual “Super Bowl Gospel Celebration” special will be available this year on streaming platforms Amazon and IMDB TV as well as broadcast channels Bounce and ION TV.
Now in its 23rd year, the special offers NFL players the opportunity to talk about their spiritual lives, in addition to featuring performances from gospel musicians and others. Because of the pandemic, the concert and related elements were pre-recorded in Dallas, Atlanta and Los Angeles. The special is set to debut on Feb. 12, the day before Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Bounce TV, and will also be available for streaming free even without membership on Prime Video and IMDB TV.
“This 23-year journey with the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration is a testament to how faith can grow the seed of a dream into a reality far greater than any plan we might have set out to achieve,” said Melanie Few, founder and executive producer of the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration. “Despite every obstacle placed in our path, our faith in this vision has been rewarded with this anointed production that has touched the lives of so many.”
This year’s Super Bowl Gospel Celebration is hosted by Sarah Jakes Roberts and DC Young Fly. It is set to feature a wide array of award-winning musical performers, including Grammy Award winner CeCe Winans, who will perform a Gospel medley; CeeLo Green, who will perform a duet with Pastor Mike Jr.; Mali Music with singer-actress Chloe; and Regina Belle, who will close the show with a performance featuring the NFL Players Choir. Russell Wilson, Cam Jordan, Kirk Cousins, Stefon Diggs, Stefon Diggs and Matt Judon are among the NFL players slated to appear.
The special will include a tribute to Deion Sanders, two-time Super Bowl Champion and current head coach for Jackson State University’s football team, who will be presented with the Lifetime Inspiration Award. Sanders will be honored for his work in increasing the visibility of Historically Black College and Universities’ athletics, and will be one of four NFL players to ever receive the award. In addition, the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a national nonprofit dedicated to the health and wellness of Black girls and women, will present a special recognition for former Carolina Pathers player DeAngelo Williams for his donations to cancer screenings via his DeAngelo Williams Foundation nonprofit.
After its initial presentation, the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration will receive an encore performance on Ion Television on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 12 a.m. ET/9 p.m PT. The special will continue to be freely available on Prime Video and IMDB TV for the remainder of February, in recognition of Black History Month.
If you’re looking for new music to add to your playlist, this is a single you can’t forget! Grammy award winning artist Jekalyn Carr and Christian R&B newcomer have come together for their newest collab “Hands On Me”! In just four days, their new video for the single hit 100K and the numbers continue to climb!
Surprisingly to some, Christian R&B is not a new genre. But, it has recently become more widespread outside of the Christian R&B community in the last few years due to much of the music going viral on TikTok. There have been a host of artists who have been pushing out creative music with this sound as far back as 2012 and before. In recent years, we have seen new artists jumping into the genre style with a fresh take merging Gospel and Christian R&B together!
Following in the steps of recent collaborations from artists like Erica Campbell and Jordan Armstrong and more, Jekalyn Carr and Mike Teezy are continuing the trend of Gospel + Christian R&B artists coming together for a new era of Gospel music!
Watch the video below, then scroll down further to watch clips of the artists behind the scene on the set of their video recording:
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Justin Timberlake and Tobe Nwigwe recently performed on Saturday Night Live debuting Timberlake’s newest single “Sanctified”. Prior to this performance, only a short portion of the song had been previewed in an NFL Wildcard ESPN commercial. Now that the full song has been released, fans are sharing their love and a few concerns. Considering the Christian references throughout the song, Christian fans are sharing their thoughts as well. While some major websites such as Rollingstone have reported the two artist’s collaboration as a Gospel release, a close listen to the lyrics from fans is bringing a new response that is correcting that perspective.
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How Are Fans Responding?
The response from fans so far depends on the audience. Most agree that musically the song hits! Everything was done extremely well! With Adam Blackstone involved in combination with all of the artists featured, that was almost a guarantee. But, lyrically is where the divide comes in from the faith based audience and the general mainstream audience.
While it’s clear that the song has a strong sexual connotation, some from the Faith based community specifically feel that the correlation to the crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Glory of God might be taking things too far. It has also been stated that the song might have originally been created as a love letter to his wife Jessica Biel as the lyrics also seem to point to the Trolls star feeling grateful for someone who has led him through a dark time:
“You take all of my wrongs, move right along, take mе and fix my mess / Get me up whеn I’m low, hand on my soul, like you see right inside,” Timberlake sings. “I come out a new man, no blood on my hands, sanctified.”
– Excerpt from Justin Timberlake’s “Sanctified”
Knowing that the song might be a love letter to his wife, what do you think of the lyrical direction? Was it still too much? Scroll down to read the lyrics and to see the performance in full. Then, share your thoughts with us on Instagram via the link below: We want to hear from you!
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Looking for more new music? DOE just released her latest single “Holy Hands” and she shared a few words with us about what she loves about it the most!
Doe is signed to Jonathan McReynold’s label Life Room Label and has been making waves since the release of her first project under the label.
Doe continues to expand her sound collaborating with Christian artists like Wande, Donald Lawrence, Johnathan McReynolds, Orlando Palmer and more! Partnering up w/ artists from various Christian genre styles continues to expand her audience while exposing them all to new sounds in the process!
We’re excited about this single and about everything she has coming up next!
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