The nominees for the 48th annual GRAMMY awards were announced this morning. The Gospel field comprises eight different awards for Christian music. The nominees were as follows.
Best Gospel Performance:
- “Be Blessed,” Yolanda Adams (Elektra/Atlantic)
- “Looking for You,” Kirk Franklin (Fo Yo Soul/Zomba)
- “I Call You Faithful,” Donnie McClurkin (Verity Records)
- “Lift Him Up,” Hezekiah Walker & Love Fellowship Choir (Verity/Zomba)
- “Pray,” CeCe Winans (PureSprings Gospel/INO/Sony Urban Music/Epic)
Best Gospel Song (a songwriter(s) award):
- “Again I Say Rejoice,” (Israel & New Breed) Israel Houghton & Aaron Lindsey (Integrity Gospel)
- “Be Blessed,” Yolanda Adams, James Harris III, Terry Lewis & James Q. Wright (Elektra/Atlantic)
- “Heaven,” (Mary Mary) Erica Campbell, Joi Campbell, Trecina Campbell & Warryn Campbell (My Block/EMI CMG)
- “Lift Him Up,” (Hezekiah Walker & Love Fellowship Choir) Joeworn Martin (Verity/Zomba)
- “We Must Praise,” (J Moss) James Moss (GospoCentric)
Best Rock Gospel Album:
- Until My Heart Caves In, Audio Adrenaline (ForeFront)
- Higher Definition, The Cross Movement (Cross Movement Records)
- Day of Fire, Day of Fire (Essential)
- Truth Is Fallin' in Tha Streetz, Fresh I.E. (SOAR / Red Sea)
- Dichotomy B, Grits (Gotee)
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album:
- Lifesong, Casting Crowns (Beach Street/Reunion)
- All I Really Want for Christmas, Steven Curtis Chapman (Sparrow)
- Redemption Songs, Jars of Clay (Essential)
- Hymns, Out of Eden (Gotee)
- Healing Rain, Michael W. Smith (Reunion)
- Live Wire, Third Day (Essential)
Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album:
- Live at Brooklyn Tabernacle, The Crabb Family (Daywind)
- Sing Their Family Gospel Favorites, Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers (Dualtone)
- Rock of Ages …Hymns & Faith, Amy Grant (Word)
- Southern Meets Soul: An American Gospel Jubilee, The Jordanaires, The Light Crust Doughboys, Nokie Edwards & Larry “T-Byrd” Gordon (Greenhaw Records)
- Common Thread, The Oak Ridge Boys (Spring Hill)
Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album:
- I Know the Truth, Shirley Caesar (Shu-Bel Records/Artemis Gospel)
- Live From Houston … The Rose of Gospel, Dorinda Clark-Cole (GospoCentric Records/Zomba)
- Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs, Donnie McClurkin (Verity)
- Say the Name, Martha Munizzi (Martha Munizzi Music/Integrity Music)
- Singing the Old Time Way, Bishop G.E. Patterson & Congregation (Podium Records)
- Be Exalted, Marvin Sapp (Verity)
Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album:
- Day By Day, Yolanda Adams (Elektra/Atlantic)
- Mary Mary, Mary Mary (Columbia/Sony Urban)
- The J Moss Project, J Moss (GospoCentric)
- Dream, BeBe Winans (Still Waters/TMG)
- Purified, CeCe Winans (PureSprings Gospel/INO/Sony Urban Music/Epic)
Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album:
- I Speak Life, Donald Lawrence & Company (QuietWater/Verity /Zomba)
- Live at the Fellowship, John P Kee and VIP Mass Choir (Verity)
- One Church, Kurt Carr and The Choir of Life (Japan and USA),
- The Kurt Carr Singers (GospoCentric)
- One Voice, Gladys Knight and Saints Unified Voices (Many Roads Records)
- 20/85 the Experience, Hezekiah Walker and The Love Fellowship Choir (Verity/Zomba)
The winners will be announced in February 2006.
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