The youngsters in God’s Property made urban gospel all the rage last year — but Detroit’s Fred Hammond, as the title suggests, wrote the book and offers two soulful chapters here, one culled from the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There are certain voices in gospel music that don’t just sing to you—they sing through you. For me, Fred Hammond is one of those voices. His music has been a constant companion ...

Fred Hammond was ready to give up. The basic bass guitar his mother had given to him to play at church was sitting under his bed, unused. After a few months, his frustrated mother, Mildred Hammond, ...

Hammond is known for paving the way for the urban praise movement. A Gospel music legend will join a new brotherhood in the Black community. Fred Hammond has been inducted as an honorary member of Phi ...