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Determined

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Angela Spivey is one of gospel's greatest singers of this time. With her everlasting enery and powerpacked, anointed voice, she is sure to help you get your praise on. On this CD, she simply SHOWS OUT! All of the songs are the bomb. I really love the title song, "Determined", because she let's everybody know without a doubt that she's determined. The song called, "Where are the worshippers" written by Trina Jefferie (Sister Cantaloupe), is magnificent. I play that song over and over again, night and day. I love the Dorothy Love-Coates medley as well. This whole CD is just marvelous. If you want to have some church or have a "PARTY", as Angie says it, this CD is for you!

This CD is awesome! From the first cut to the last, Angela Spivey delivers her best performance/ministry yet. The title cut "Determined" shows her ability to push through with a high spirited hand-clapping COGIC-style piece. And right after, she takes us to the throne of God with her heart-rendering praise in the tune "You Have Brought Us". She is well backed by the anointed voices of Min. Prince Yelder & Disciples For Christ and some of her own "Voices" from Chicago. The Choir pushes through with power on songs like "Jesus Saves" and "Your Joy Is Coming"
This project is sure to take the ministry of Angela Spivey to heighs unknown. As a radio personality, I would add any of these tunes to my playlist.

I witnessed Angela Spivey for the first time at the GMWA Excellence Awards! She blew me away then with "These Thorns." Her cureent release "Determined" is yet another demonstration of the Powerful "Praise" Princess. Her ministry in song on this project is truly annointed and awesome. Seeing and hearing her live is a soul transforming experience. I was left speechless after her presentation at the stellar awards 2003. She is the consumate gospel artist!

Let me take something back that I said, it doesn't really matter if they crown Angie or Beverly Crawford the princess of gospel, it doesn't matter because they're both anointed, exciting, great women of God. I apologize for coming down hard with my previous comments. Please disregard what I said, because it was trivial and divisive. But something I'll shall repeat again--Angela Spivey is a great gospel artist! And the Dorothy Love Coates medley is great, which Angie did on the Stellars this year. It's about time someone really gave the late Dorothy props. And she's a bad choir director too.

Angela Spivey is really a great songwriter, vocalist, etc. Her performance on the Stellars this year was awesome! I'm glad to see that she has come a long way in the gospel music industry.

But I have one problem with her: this is not as a put down, but how did she become the "princess of gospel music"? That title was reserved for Beverly Crawford, whom I'm afraid to admit, was copied by Angie. Yes, I hate to say it, but when I see Angie Spivey on stage, I see a lot of Beverly Crawford, and Beverly was really the one who came out with those types of exciting performances and was the consummate artist. As a matter of fact, back in around 1997, Beverly herself gave an exciting rendition of "Jesus Precious King". What gives the gospel industry the right to take her title away from her (especially while she's still alive) and give it to somebody else? It's not right and I heard NOBODY speak up about it. It's like people just are stepping over Beverly Crawford like she's nothing. And she's done A LOT; is on somebody's album at least once a year, wrote, is an actress, even worked over in the CCM. She even got her start on a cable TV show for cryin' out loud. Just because her last album didn't do too well doesn't mean people got to do her like that. Hey, where are her true fans?

Let's be fair.

Otherwise, Angela Spivey is a great artist. But I don't consider her the "princess of gospel".