Integrity Music’s Israel Houghton is now a four-time GRAMMY Award winner after receiving the award for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album for his critically acclaimed CD Love God. Love People. The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The GRAMMY for Love God. Love People. makes four straight for the worship leader from Houston. Each of Houghton’s last four CDs have been honored with GRAMMY Awards. Last year he won for his solo debut CD The Power of One, and with his powerhouse musical ensemble New Breed, Houghton won a GRAMMY in 2008 for A Deeper Level and in 2007 for Alive in South Africa.
Winners for the 53rd Grammy Awards have been announced. The categories include: Best Gospel Performance, Best Gospel Song, Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album, Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel, Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album, Best Traditional Gospel Album, and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album.
The brother and sister duo BeBe & CeCe Winans received two nominations for Best Gospel Performance for their song “Grace” and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album for Still and won in both categories.
Other winners in the Gospel category included Switchfoot, Jerry Peters and Kirk Whalum, Diamond Rio, and Patty Griffin.
The winners are listed below in all of the Gospel categories:
Best Gospel Performance
Grace
BeBe & CeCe Winans (winner)
Track from: Still
[B&C/Malaco]
He Wants It All
Forever Jones
Track from: Get Ready
[EMI Gospel]
You Hold My World
Israel Houghton
Track from: Love God. Love People.
[Integrity Music]
Nobody Greater
VaShawn Mitchell
Track from: Triumphant
[EMI Gospel]
He’s Been Just That Good
Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway
Track from: The Gospel According To Jazz Chapter III
[Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue Records]
Best Gospel Song
Beautiful Things
Lisa Gungor & Michael Gungor, songwriters (Gungor)
Track from: Beautiful Things
[Brash Music]
Better Than A Hallelujah
Sarah Hart & Chapin Hartford, songwriters (Amy Grant)
Track from: Somewhere Down The Road
[Amy Grant Productions/ Sparrow Records; Publishers: River Oaks Music, spiritandsong.com Publishing, Sony/Tree Music Publishing, Michael Puryear Music]
It’s What I Do (winner)
Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)
Track from: The Gospel According To Jazz Chapter III
[Rendezvous Music/Mack Avenue Records; Publishers: Whalumusic/Jerry Peters Music]
Our God
Jonas Myrin, Matt Redman, Jesse Reeves & Chris Tomlin, songwriters (Chris
Tomlin)
Track from: Passion: Awakening
[Sparrow Records / sixstepsrecords; Publishers: Thankyou Music, sixsteps Music/worshiptogether.com Songs/Said And Done Music/Vamos Publishing/Jonas Myrin/SHOUT! Publishing]
Return To Sender
Gordon Kennedy, songwriter (Ricky Skaggs)
Track from: Mosaic
[Skaggs Family Records; Publisher: GlennJoy Music]
Best Rock Or Rap Gospel Album
Hello Hurricane (winner)
Switchfoot
[Atlantic Recording Corp/ Credential Recordings]
Church Music
David Crowder Band
[Sparrow Records / Sixstepsrecords]
For Those Who Wait
Fireflight
[Flicker Records]
Beautiful Things
Gungor
[Brash Music]
Rehab
Lecrae
[Reach Records]
Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album
Love God. Love People. (winner)
Israel Houghton
[Integrity Music]
Beauty Will Rise
Steven Curtis Chapman
[Sparrow Records]
Pieces Of A Real Heart
Sanctus Real
[Sparrow Records]
Mosaic
Ricky Skaggs
[Skaggs Family Records]
Tonight
TobyMac
[ForeFront Records]
Best Southern, Country, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album
The Reason (winner)
Diamond Rio
[Word]
Expecting Good Things
Jeff & Sheri Easter
[Spring Hill Music Group/She Loved Music]
Times Like These
Austins Bridge
[Daywind Records]
Journey On
Ty Herndon
[FUNL Music]
Live At Oak Tree: Karen Peck & New River
Karen Peck & New River
[Daywind Records]
Best Traditional Gospel Album
The Experience
Vanessa Bell Armstrong
[EMI Gospel]
A City Called Heaven
Shirley Caesar
[Light Records]
Downtown Church (winner)
Patty Griffin
[Credential Recordings]
Here I Am
Marvin Sapp
[Verity]
All In One
Karen Clark Sheard
[KaRew Records/ EMI Gospel]
Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album
Still
BeBe & CeCe Winans (winner)
[B&C/Malaco]
Get Ready
Forever Jones
[EMI Gospel]
Love Unstoppable
Fred Hammond
[Verity]
Triumphant
VaShawn Mitchell
[EMI Gospel]
Aaron Sledge
Aaron Sledge
[EMI Gospel]
By Sheilah Belle
source: The Belle Report
