After BMG’s choice sent us home with nil points this year, artist management company TaP Music has been selected to choose next year’s Eurovision entry for the UK. The company works with artists including Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey and Ellie Goulding.
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Chris Willman Music Writer“The Jesus Music,” a film about the Christian music scene that earned more than half a million dollars over its opening weekend, is about as friendly and far removed from being an expose as a documentary can get, but that doesn’t mean the filmmakers want fans to think they’re getting anything but unvarnished truth.
So the opening moments feature some of the movie’s primary participants — including Kirk Franklin, the three former members of DC Talk, Amy Grant and
.After BMG’s choice sent us home with nil points this year, artist management company TaP Music has been selected to choose next year’s Eurovision entry for the UK. The company works with artists including Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey and Ellie Goulding.
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a word pointedly never mentioned in this documentary) coupled with a broader Christian revival of baby boomers entering adulthood, was enough of an overground phenomenon to make the cover of Time magazine. The opposition, what little existed, came from established older clergy who rejected the formal elements of the music itself, since Protestant churches in the United States had been pointedly against rock and roll.
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