Sunday Service / Gospel-Soul
tagStarted 2019Peak 2019-2020Last big hit 2021
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Kanye West's gospel turn: maximalist rap fused with a live worship choir. Massed Sunday Service Choir vocals, vintage soul flips and pipe-organ grandeur frame short, sermon-like raps about salvation and surrender. Auto-tuned testimony meets hand-clap revival; the choir, not the verse, is often the loudest instrument in the mix.
History
West launched the Sunday Service Choir in January 2019, staging invite-only worship performances, then released 'Jesus Is King' (Oct 2019), which swept Top Christian and Top Gospel albums at the 2020 Billboard Awards and won Best Contemporary Christian Album at the Grammys. The choir's 'Jesus Is Born' (Dec 2019) extended the gospel-soul project.
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Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Is_King
- https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sunday-service-choir/1484936942
- https://www.npr.org/2019/10/27/773923240/music-moment-kanye-west-s-jesus-is-king