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Babbie Mason

Babbie Mason is an African American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and author. Her song “All Rise” was one of the most-recorded contemporary Christian songs of the 1990s.

Josephine Forsyth

Cleveland singer, composer, and musical patron.

The “First Lady of Gospel,” she has received 10 Grammy Awards, 12 Stellar Awards, and 17 Dove Awards, but her commitment to her church remains paramount. Of her call to the ministry, she said, “I am called to be a preacher-evangelist first, and a singer second.”

Suni Paz

Suni Paz was one of the first artists to bring the nueva canción tradition—the “new song” music of the 1960s and 1970s—to North American audiences. For more than half of a century, her work as an American songwriter and performer of Latin American folk music has resonated as a cultural force, engaging people of all backgrounds and ages.

Carmen McRae

Carmen McRae was one of the great singers of jazz, finding the depth of feeling in the lyrics of the songs she interpreted.

Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson has used her distinctive voice and fascinating arrangements of standards, in not just jazz, but blues, country, and folk as well, to create a body of work that has expanded the definition of jazz.

Deborah Cheetham

World-renowned Aboriginal Australian opera singer, composer, playwright and creator of Australia’s first Aboriginal opera.

Wu Man

Wu Man belongs to a rare group of musicians whose vivid brilliance, commanding personality, and range of expression has redefined their instrument, in her case, the pipa, a centuries-old, pear-shaped, four-stringed Chinese lute.