The Gospel Canarias Festival has become an essential event in the last quarter of the year in the Canary Islands. This event, which takes place on different islands such as Tenerife, Gran Canaria and La Palma, stands out for its quality and variety, presenting the best gospel choirs in emblematic stages of the archipelago.
2019: The Gospel Canarias Festival welcomed the prestigious choir The London Community, considered one of the best in Europe, with more than three decades of experience and numerous albums. Local groups such as Latonius Gospel Choir also participated.
2021: That year, groups such as Harlem Gospel Choir, Joyful Gospel Singers, Latonius, and Naturally stood out, who made attendees vibrate with the rhythm of gospel.
2022: The festival featured international artists such as Soweto Gospel Choir, Bazile Meade, Clarence Bekker, and Bridget Bazile with her show «Star of Gospel», alongside local choirs such as Naturally and Gospel Shine Voices.
2023: The festival featured gospel greats such as Joshua Nelson, Chicago Mass Choir (USA), Daniel Thomas (UK), Brigitte Emaga (Barcelona) and the Canarias Gospel Choir, achieving great success.
Brigitte EMAGA is a singer and songwriter born in the city of Barcelona, who began singing at a very early age, absorbing different musical styles such as soul, funk, R&B and African music. She began her professional career as one of the members of the legendary group The Supremes, where she was for five years.musicales como soul, funk, R&B
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The Canary Islands Gospel School (EGC), founded in 2017 by the musician Ezequiel Barrios, began its journey on the island of Lanzarote. Shortly after, it was decided to start a second group on the island of Tenerife and, the following year, the group was created on the island of La Palma…
Naturally is a group from Tenerife, Canary Islands and one of the leaders of the so-called «black music» created by musician Ezequiel Barrios in 2017. With a strong influence on the roots of Afro-American music, they present a show full of soul, R&B, funk, and artists as significant as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Kirk Franklin, Prince, among others.
Gospel Shine Voices is the first English-language gospel choir in Tenerife. Founded in 2008 and based in La Laguna, it has performed and collaborated innumerable times on the islands, as well as on the peninsula and in France…
«From church choir stands to the Billboard Charts, Mississippi Mass Choir has inspired millions with their powerful gospel music. Formed in 1988 by the late Frank Williams—legendary singer, songwriter, producer, and visionary—the Mass Choir has been blessed to remain a welcomed presence in the gospel music industry for nearly 35 years…
Many of our singers honed their skills as choir singers and soloists whilst in The London Community Gospel Choir, and have since gone on to work as backing vocalists and vocal technicians with some of the world’s biggest artists such as Quincy Jones, Dave Gahan, Pharrell Williams, Blur, Sam Smith and Classical Brit Award Winner Tokio Myers to name a few…
The South Carolina Gospel Singers is the expanded re-establishment of the F.O.C.U.S. Gospel Singers that has been featured on recordings by such artists as God’s Property, Trin-i-tee 5:7, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Karen Clark Sheard, Byron Cage, Natalie Wilson, New Direction…
Génesis de Jesús, of Dominican descent, was born and raised in Madrid. He started singing at an early age, since music has always been very present in his home and several relatives were musicians, in addition to having grown up and having had his first performances in the evangelical church…
He has toured throughout Europe and has also given workshops around the world (Spain, France, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Germany, United States, Canada and the Caribbean)…
The origin of the BMMA dates back to 1985, when the City Council wanted to promote musical training within the area of Culture. In 1988, it gave its first performance with a Christmas Concert and since then it has participated in…
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La Banda Municipal de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, nace el 25 de junio de 1902, tras más de un siglo han participado junto con la Banda, solistas como Benito Cabrera, Kepa Junkera, Víctor Batista, Ernesto Chuliá y Javier Laso. Se han realizado conciertos bajo la Dirección de Maestros Invitados como: Armando Blanquer, Jan Van der Roost, Johan de Meij y Franco Cesarini…
Daniel Thomas y la banda municipal de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Les presentamos la 14ª edición de los talleres gospel decanos de Tenerife. Este año podremos disfrutar de Álvaro Della Rosa y Colin Vassell…
Joshua Nelson, por su contexto cultural y religioso, ha sido el pionero de la denominada KOSHER-GOSPEL MUSIC. Género Hebreo/Judío con toques de Soul.
Brigitte EMAGA is a singer and songwriter born in the city of Barcelona, who began singing at a very early age, absorbing different musical styles such as soul, funk, R&B and African music. She began her professional career as one of the members of the legendary group The Supremes, where she was for five years.musicales como soul, funk, R&B
y musica africana.
Daniel Thomas is an internationally renowned, multi-talented artist with over 30 years of experience in choral conducting. As well as being a choir director, he also has a long career as a singer, songwriter, vocal coach, vocal arranger, backing vocalist and keyboardist in numerous artistic and musical genres…
Joshua Nelson, por su contexto cultural y religioso, ha sido el pionero de la denominada KOSHER-GOSPEL MUSIC. Género Hebreo/Judío con toques de Soul.
The Canary Islands Gospel School (EGC), founded in 2017 by the musician Ezequiel Barrios, began its journey on the island of Lanzarote. Shortly after, it was decided to start a second group on the island of Tenerife and, the following year, the group was created on the island of La Palma…
Naturally is a group from Tenerife, Canary Islands and one of the leaders of the so-called «black music» created by musician Ezequiel Barrios in 2017. With a strong influence on the roots of Afro-American music, they present a show full of soul, R&B, funk, and artists as significant as Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Kirk Franklin, Prince, among others.
Gospel Shine Voices is the first English-language gospel choir in Tenerife. Founded in 2008 and based in La Laguna, it has performed and collaborated innumerable times on the islands, as well as on the peninsula and in France…
Known as a trilingual (French, Spanish and English) presenter, voice-over and vocalist, Za-Za has been able to experience a wealth of opportunities on stage…
Clarence Bekker, born in Surinam but of Dutch nationality, has taken his career down many paths: he was the youngest member of the successful Swinging Soul Machine, of the world music collective 08001…
The ensemble was founded in 1988 by James C. Chambers, who was also the founder of the Ecclesiastes Community Choir. Their debut album was released in 1991…
Singer, pianist and a charismatic conductor who has been part of the music industry for over 3 decades. He is the founder and conductor of the prestigious The London Community Gospel Choir, and one of the most respected and valued figures in the British music industry…
Bridget Bazile graduated from Tulane University, the University of New Orleans and attended the University of Oklahoma. Winner of the prestigious Leontyne Price Competition, a finalist for the Metropolitan Opera National Council in 1999 and first prize in the Meistersinger Vocal Competition in Graz, Austria in 2001…