I love this song more than I can express– it’s just classic to me.

This isn’t the original performance, but it’s great all the same.  It’s “Jesus Saves” by Marvin Winans and the Perfected Praise Choir, and this particular video features Vickie Winans on guest vocals, too!

How about that?!

Dunno how many of you know Kayla Parker by name or face, but I’m sure that you know of her music.  She passed in April of 2007, but the mark she left on the gospel industry is undeniable and more than noteworthy.

With musical influences ranging from Stevie Wonder to The Clark Sisters to Take 6, this singer/songwriter/producer/arranger from Detroit penned hit songs like “He’s Concerned” by CeCe Winans, “Now Are We” by Marvin Winans & the Perfected Praise Choir, and countless others.  Her vocal arrangements were beautifully complex (most recently, you can hear them on Vickie Winans’ Woman To Woman album).

There aren’t too many videos available of Kayla on YouTube, but this one blesses me… so I’m posting it to bless you.

I could go on about her, but you’ll learn more if you take a minute to visit her official website: http://www.kaylaparker.com.

Whatd’ya think?

Word has it that Pastor Marvin Winans & The Perfected Praise Choir are prepping for a live recording on March 29, 2009 at their Detroit, MI church.  GospelFlava.com reports that special guests include CeCe Winans, Bishop Paul S. Morton and Rodrick Dixon.

I’m glad about it!  I think folks reeaaaally slept on their last album, Friends.  It featured writing and guest vocals from the late, INCREDIBLY great Kayla Parker.  It also featured a KILLER reprise of with Vanessa Bell Armstrong and Karen Clark-Sheard.

I bet this new album will be good, too, especially cuz I’m an undercover church choir fanatic (ok, maybe not so “undercover”).