Tasha Cobbs Leonard Wins 2024 GRAMMY, Debut Book ‘Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good’ Out This Spring!

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Congratulations to Tasha Cobbs Leonard, who has earned the 2024 Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song Grammy Award for her collaboration track with American rapper and artist Lecrae, “Your Power.” This marks the Billboard Gospel Artist of the Decade’s second career win!

“God is great and greatly to be praised,” said Tasha Cobbs Leonard on social media after learning about the Grammy win. “Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this song an amazing tool for the kingdom! I’m so grateful.”

“We couldn’t be more thrilled for Tasha Cobbs Leonard on her second GRAMMY win,” said J Gaines, Executive Director, Motown Gospel. “We are honored to partner with her as she continues to impact the world with her music and message.”

 

Recently, Tasha Cobbs Leonard announced she is releasing her debut book titled Do It Anyway: Don’t Give Up Before It Gets Good, out via WaterBrook May 7. Known by millions not only for her stellar voice, but for her contagious smile and positivity, Cobbs Leonard reveals a new side of herself for the first time, sharing very personal moments of unforeseen challenges like infertility, weight struggles, grief, and debilitating depression to profoundly demonstrate the transformative power of resilient faith and perseverance.

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Gospel Music Radio Host Darlene McCoy Jackson Referred to as ‘Darky’ on Atlanta Restaurant Receipt…

 

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I hate that I even have to highlight this, but racism has to be called out for the sin that it is…Last week, Darlene McCoy Jackson, a well-known gospel music radio host here in Atlanta ordered some food from Woody’s Cheesesteak in Buckhead, a ritzy area here in the A. Instead of referring to her by her name, an employee allegedly referred to her as “Darky” on the receipt. See for yourself below…

 

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It was so very dumb of this employee to do this because Darlene is well-known in the community so of course the news of this incident was going to spread throughout the city and now throughout the country…Apparently the owner has apologized for the employee’s actions. Read the story HERE.

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Kim Burrell Reveals on ‘We Sound Crazy!’ Podcast that Beyoncé Listened to Her Music for 11 Hours Straight Due to Jay-Z Marriage Issues…

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I’m going to be honest. I cannot name not one Kim Burrell song, but nevertheless she is a very popular gospel singer. And yet, despite singing the gospel she only seems to have negative press. And this latest story is no different…unfortunately…Most recently, it’s being being reported that she revealed a private conversation she had with Jay-Z aka Beyoncé’s husband which led to the creation of his song 4:44 on the We Sound Crazy! Podcast. Below is what she said…

“He called me and said, ‘Hey, when my wife is going through it, I always know because I hear you playing in the background.’ He’s says, ‘My wife locked up one day for 11 hours and I heard nothing but Kim Burrell for 11 hours. Here’s why I’m calling you. When she came out, she was better. She was so much better. He says, I’m calling you because I need to have a meeting with the person that made my wife better.'”

See the full interview below. The Jay-Z portion of the interview starts at about 33 minutes…

Now, some are bashing her because she revealed some of the personal life of the Carters, who seem to be as private about their personal lives as they can be given their celebrity status. Initially, I was thinking that way too but as I type this, I’m not sure if I feel it’s negative or not. Now, if someone shared information with you in confidence and you, in turn, shared the information with others, that is most certainly a negative as it’s a violation of trust. However, that conversation led to the creation of Jay-Z’s song “4:44” in which he apologizes to his wife for various infractions including infidelity…Since he put his business out there, I’m not sure that the conversation that led to him putting his business out there via his song, which features the vocals of Kim Burrell, by the way is wrong. At the very least, her revealing this conversation does make me think that maybe Jay-Z did cheat on Beyoncé. Because after reading her biography Becoming Beyoncé: The Untold Story,” written by J. Randy Taraborrelli, I share his opinion about the matter…

“Now, I’m not a psychic, I’m a biographer, and I can’t say that Jay Z didn’t have a one-night stand in a tour bus a week ago, but I do know from my studying of Beyoncé [that] her personality is such that if in fact she was actually having marital problems, she would not be sitting down writing songs about it for the nation to dissect and interpret. That’s not who she is. She’s too private a person to handle her marital dysfunction for the world to see and examine. More likely what she’s doing is she’s possibly writing about her mother’s marriage and what she witnessed there. That sounds like Beyoncé.” Read the rest of this story on yahoo.com.

Given that this podcast episode was released in October 2022, I’m not sure why this excerpt recently surfaced, but that’s the power of these Internet streets. Something can be dug up from a decade ago and be poppin’ again…Be careful out here…Anywho…

What do you think about Kim Burrell and this latest headlining story?

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