R&B singer Leon Bridges reveals he wasn't allowed to listen or play secular music as a kid, but his mom had one exception R&B singer Leon Bridges has a few good things coming his way. The 29-year-old ...

“They say, ‘The holy water's watered down, and this town's lost its faith,’” a man sings soulfully. This is not a religious condemnation of the terrible things that have happened on Earth. It’s a tune ...

Holiday songs with biblical themes have lost a share of royalties to secular songs about Santa, Christmas trees and celebration. By Glenn Peoples Holiday music has exploded in popularity over the last ...

Ghanaian music producer David Kojo Kyei, popularly known as Kaywa, has advised Ghanaians to stop putting secular music in the same category as worldly music, as they are two different things.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the music industry. Keyboardist Shaun Martin is a man of many hats. You can find him playing with Grammy-winning ...

The term “heavy metal” was coined to describe the loud, driving, guitar-based music popularized in the late 1960s. Over the years, bands have added new connotations to the term. A group called Black ...

I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham, and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry. Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with ...

Church and music: Rapper Kanye West performs a religious medley at the Cochella Festival this year. We are in the world, but not of the world… the scripture in John 17:15-18 is a popular one in ...

Kanye West hasn't officially released his newest work, "Jesus is King," but the polarizing hip-hop star is already making waves about the future of his music's direction. After days of playing his ...

Drake recently took part in a wide-ranging interview with Rap Radar, during which he spoke about his beef with Pusha T and discussed West’s path into non-secular music. “God bless him on his new ...