Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were not already clear that this is an album you shouldn't miss, Adams' strongest songs are those in which she pushes her music one step further, into heavily syncopated or even world beat percussions, and introduces a strong gospel element to her singing. Cross this with electric guitar and you have some very danceable tracks. "Evolution," "Window of Hope" and especially "Easier to Say Goodbye" are her most daring and complex songs. These are the only tracks to use backup vocals, and the gospel-choir sound this produces is uplifting to say the least...
...success helped launch other Latin acts. Cuban-born singer Jon Secada, who co-wrote several of Estefan's best-selling songs, has since recorded his own hits, which combine elements of Cuban music, Top 40 and gospel. Says Secada: "Artists who want to experiment find a way of incorporating the things that are worthy from all types of music, like reggae, salsa and African sounds. And it finds a way onto the charts...
...toll, especially these days. "There have been times . . . I've come down from the platform absolutely exhausted," he says. "I feel like I've been wrestling with the devil, who has been doing everything in his power to keep those people from getting a clear message of the Gospel." At the moment he gives the invitation, he explains, "some sort of physical energy goes out of me and I feel terribly weak. I'm depleted." After a crusade he returns to relax with his wife Ruth in the rambling log home that she designed years ago as their sanctuary...
...middle of a lake. He ate a quarter- pound of butter a day to try to spread some bulk across his lanky frame, and he worked on his gestures and facial expressions as he traveled to tiny churches or declaimed outside saloons frequented by drunkards and prostitutes, sharing the Gospel...
...that in private he lobbied the Kremlin on behalf of Jewish and Christian prisoners. Ruth Graham, herself fervently anticommunist, opposed her husband's strategy, but it succeeded in gaining him access to preach in Eastern Europe. She now says, "Jesus said go into all the world and preach the Gospel, not just the capitalist world. I mean, I was dead wrong...