He became one of the country's biggest names in gospel, with songs that were covered by Destiny's Child, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder.

Richard Smallwood, the renowned Grammy-nominated gospel singer-songwriter whose music has been covered by Destiny's Child and Whitney Houston, has died. He was 77.

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

He got used to change years ago. But this time, it was hard to figure out. For years, the Ray Daniels House of Music was the home of lessons in how to play and sing traditional gospel music, the ...

The gospel world just lost one of its true architects. Richard Smallwood, the Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, pianist, and choir master whose music soundtracked church services, funerals, ...