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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Gospel: Is the spiritual message of the music getting lost in the world of commercialism?
It's the two billion dollar music industry with faith at the forefront. We investigate whether mainstream music artists are diluting an industry that dedicates itself to the word of god.
Hear from one of gospel's best selling artists, Marvin Sapp, and a gospel choir leader in Rwanda.
Presenter / producer: Izzy Greenfield Image: Marvin Sapp; Credit: Marvin Sapp
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| 0:43.4 | It's the $2 billion music industry with faith at the forefront, |
| 0:48.1 | but is the message of gospel being lost in the secular world of commercialism? |
| 0:56.1 | Today on Business Daily we'll be spreading the word of the gospel as we investigate whether mainstream music artists are diluting an industry that dedicates itself to the word |
| 1:01.1 | of God. |
| 1:04.5 | You'll hear from the biggest selling artists. |
| 1:06.8 | I have a problem with someone coming into our genre, just monopolizing our charts. |
| 1:14.5 | I don't think that that's fair because there's no way possible that a gospel artist could go and monopolize a hip-hop chart. |
| 1:22.0 | We'll speak to the pioneer producers and local choirs across the world who hope to have their voices heard. |
| 1:28.0 | The important in this is the intention, if you have intention of delivering the gospel, |
| 1:33.7 | and then God will bless what you do. |
| 1:36.0 | But when you see that it's bringing you a lot of money and you relay on that |
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