The nominees for the 43rd Annual NAACP Image Awards were announced today!

In the category of Outstanding Gospel Album, here are your nominees:

Yolanda Adams – Becoming

Deitrick Haddon - Church on the Moon

Kirk Franklin - Hello Fear

Mary Mary - Something Big

Andraé Crouch - The Journey

Also, in the Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration category, long-time favorite choir Sounds of Blackness was nominated!

The awards show will air live on February 17, 2012, on NBC, from 8pm-10pm ET.

Congrats, nominees!

Make sure you tune in to FOX this Friday, at 8pm ET/7pm CST, to watch the NAACP Image Awards.

Word has it that Mary Mary will be performing, so will Deitrick Haddon, as will Committed (winners of NBC’s “The Sing-Off”) and the legendary Mavis Staples.

Plus, we’ll see who wins in the “Outstanding Gospel Album” category. The nominees:

Kirk Whalum – Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III
Marvin Sapp – Here I Am
Brian Courtney Wilson – Just Love: Deluxe Edition
Tamela Mann – The Master Plan
Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone

Tune in!

The 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards have announced this years nominees.  Gospel artists are recognized by the “Outstanding Gospel Album” category.  The nominees are–

Kirk Whalum – Gospel According to Jazz, Chapter III
Marvin Sapp – Here I Am
Brian Courtney Wilson – Just Love: Deluxe Edition
Tamela Mann – The Master Plan
Mavis Staples – You Are Not Alone

The televised special airs LIVE on March 4, 2011 at 8pm ET on FOX.

Word has it that Tina & Erica Campbell (Mary Mary) will be performing on the NAACP Image Awards tonight.  As I mentioned yesterday, the awards show will be broadcast live from L.A. on FOX tonight at 8pm ET.

According to a Twitter message sent by Erica Campbell yesterday, the gospel duo are seeking prayers for their performance tonight– “Tina has laryngitis n I’m 8mo pregnant, pray 4 MM!!”

Geeeeeeez.  I dunno how they do it, but they do it.  Touch ‘em, Lawd!

The nominations for the NAACP’s 41st annual Image Awards were announced today.  The organization recognizes the contributions of African-Americans in a variety of fields, including gospel music.  The nominees for “Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional Or Contemporary)” are:

Donnie McClurkin – We All Are One
Shirley Caesar – A City Called Heaven
Fred Hammond – Love Unstoppable
BeBe & CeCe Winans – Still
Vickie Winans – How I Got Over

My money’s on BeBe & CeCe because their reunion project was so highly anticipated and mainstream audiences know them REALLY well.  Plus, the album’s good.  In any event, I think each of the nominees deserve their nods.

I’m SLIGHTLY miffed that Donald Lawrence didn’t get recognized, but I’ll be okay…

And before you get all up in arms about why Mary Mary isn’t nominated for Outstanding Album, they were nominated (and won) last year.  Aaaaand, THIS YEAR, they got a nod for “God In Me” in the Outstanding Song category!  Cool, huh?

To see a full list of nominees, click here.  The awards show airs LIVE on Friday, February 26th on FOX at 8pm ET/7pm CST.  Tune in!

What do you think of the nods???

Not that you’d have known it from watching the telecast, but Mary Mary walked away with the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Gospel Artist (Traditional or Contemporary) at last night’s 40th annual awards show.  Also nominated were Hezekiah Walker, Marvin Sapp, Regina Belle, Take 6.

Really??? Okay.  I’m a bit surprised cuz I thought everyone was loving Marvin Sapp right now.  Well, kudos ladies and rock on!

On a side note, I’ma need the producers of the show to get it together.  All you needed was ONE uber-excited intern to be responsible for updating a Twitter feed, which could have been placed on your website, giving us real-time results and info on the winners.  I had to scour the web just to confirm who won the gospel category!  Aaarrrrggggh…

Shout-out to The Envelope at the LA Times for their full list– click here to see it.

The NAACP Image Awards show airs live tonight on FOX at 8pm ET/PT.  It should have some great performances, and there’s a gospel artist category, so I’ma be watchin’.   Check out my earlier post about it to see the nominees.

Y’all tuning in?

Nominees for the 40th annual NAACP Image Awards were announced yesterday.  They offer an “Outstanding Gospel Artist (Traditional or Contemporary)” award… and the nominees are:

Hezekiah Walker | Marvin Sapp | Mary Mary | Regina Belle | Take 6

Taking nothing from the other nominees, my money is on Marvin Sapp cuz I think the industry and the fans love him A LOT right now.  And rightfully so.

The show, hosted by Halle Berry and Tyler Perry (cute… rhyming…) airs live on Thursday, February 12th on FOX at 8pm ET/PT (to my wife: I’m prolly gonna forget, so can you help me remember to set the DVR?).