Explore the contributions of Black music icons who shaped the industry and American culture during Black Music Month.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers formed in 1871, and the troupe is credited with saving Fisk University from financial ruin because of the profits it made while touring. The choral group traveled the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Nashville wouldn’t have the nickname Music City without the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The spiritual singers, formed in 1871, are credited with saving Fisk University from ...

By 1871, however, Fisk was severely in debt and the choral ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traveled the world and saved the school. Stevens was one of the Fisk singers from 2006 to 2010.

The Fisk University singers were part of that effort, attesting to the truth that Reconstruction was not and never could be ended by the hand of the federal government.

Founded in 1871, the Jubilee Singers were the first to introduce “negro spirituals” to an international audience. Under Kwami's leadership, they won their first Grammy and entered the Grammy ...

The Fisk Jubilee Singers originated in 1871 and mostly performed spirituals. In 2021, the historic group won their first Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for Celebrating Fisk!

In 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers began a journey around the world to raise funds for Fisk University in Nashville - a school dedicated to educating African Americans and former slaves.

Founded in 1871 to raise money for their struggling college, the Fisk Jubilee Singers soon became a musical sensation. The current ensemble, here performing at a church in Nashville last June ...

Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70 He took the storied Black musical group to new heights, including its first Grammy win and a National Medal of Arts.

In 2008, President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush presented the Fisk Jubilee Singers with the 2008 National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor for artists and patrons of the arts.