From left to right: Libby Van Cleve, director of OHAM; Braxton Shelley, professor of music, sacred music, and divinity and director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black Church; Kirk Franklin; and Ambre Dromgoole M.A.R. ’17, Ph.D. ’23. Photo by Harold Shapiro.
Kirk Franklin, “king” of urban Gospel music, joins the greats in Yale's oral history collection
A video interview with Gospel artist, songwriter, and producer Kirk Franklin is the latest addition to the Yale University Library’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection. Franklin, dubbed by the entertainment magazine “Variety” as the Reigning King of Urban Gospel, has won 20 Grammy Awards to date and has sold millions of his recordings, performing with vocal groups and as a solo artist.
Read the full story written by Deborah Cannarella, writer at the Yale University Library.
Photos by Harold Shapiro.
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