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.