Nashville, TN – The Gospel Announcers Guild, recently held its 42nd Annual Session at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN.  This years’ theme was “One Voice, One Vision.” The goal this year was to address and examine issues that have negatively affected the music industry’s growth and to design strategies that could […]

Richmond, VA — Elder Earnest Pugh performs at Healthy, Wealthy and Wise for Radio One Richmond, Saturday, July 21, 2012, following the performance of  Gospel recording artists New Life Empowerment Temple, Michele Cheeseboro and New Jerusalem, I.C.M.’s own Roz Brown. Courtesy of www.thebellereport.net     www.twitter.com/thebellereport

Earnest Pugh is getting great response from fans on his medley “Rain & Glory,” but that’s not the only bright spot in his career. He…

Gospel’s Leading Man, Earnest Pugh, continues to show other artists the way to stay on top in the music world is to listen to your fans. After performing a medley of his #1 gospel hits “Rain on Us” and “I Need Your Glory” on this year’s Stellar Awards television broadcast, Pugh was flooded with fan requests to release the medley […]

Things are still smoking over at Black Smoke Music where Kerry Douglas’ Houston-based company is currently enjoying a Top Ten gospel radio smash with Zacardi Cortez’ “One More Time” and Earnest Pugh’s spine-tingling “I Need Your Glory” that currently sits atop the Radio & Records Gospel Recurrent chart. Pugh is ready to hit the top […]

Things are still smoking over at Black Smoke Music where Kerry Douglas’ Houston-based company is currently enjoying two Top Ten gospel radio smashes with Earnest Pugh’s spine-tingling “I Need Your Glory” and Zacardi Cortez & John P. Kee’s churchy “One More Time.” Pugh’s soul-stirring single peaked at #1 in 2011 and he’s planning to go […]

Gospel Music’s Leading Man, Earnest Pugh, is making a special appearance in the Washington, D.C. leg of Michael Matthews’ hit stage musical, “I Need A Man,” that is touring nationally. Pugh will stop by The Warner Theater May 8-11th @ 8 p.m. each night (although, the play continues without Pugh through the 13th) and stars […]

Gospel Music’s Leading Man, Earnest Pugh, is making a special appearance in the Washington, D.C. leg of Michael Matthews’ hit stage musical, “I Need A…

Gospel Music’s Leading Man, Earnest Pugh, is making a special appearance in the Washington, D.C. leg of Michael Matthews’ hit stage musical, “I Need A…

Earnest Pugh performed his 2010 single “The Great I Am” from the Billboard topping “Rain On Us LIVE” project. Kirk Franklin joined him on keyboards.…

Friday, March 2, 2012 @7p.m. Village of Faith, Richmond, VA – FREE Concert Earnest Pugh Stops By Praise 104.7 to talk to The Belle about giving back to Richmond through his concert…”Night of Outpouring” .  Be sure to hang out with us at 4p.m. TODAY!

The Stellar Awards, the premier Gospel music event recognizing and honoring African-American artists, airs its 27th annual awards show with all-star performances by Kirk Franklin, James Fortune and FIYA, Earnest Pugh, Le'Andria Johnson, Fred Hammond, Kim Burrell, Martha Munizzi, Jessica Reedy, Richard Smallwood and Vision, Da'T.R.U.T.H., Ricky Dilliard and New G, William McDowell, Canton Jones and hip-hop gospel artist, Lecrae, who impressively received two nominations in the same category.