The Fisk Jubilee Singers have never sung gospel music as we know it, but modern gospel would have been impossible without them. In 1871, six years after the Civil War ended, the former slaves who ...

The first Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1871, left to right, Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes and Eliza Walker.

The album that recently won the Fisk Jubilee Singers a Grammy Award — the first in the ensemble’s history — was created from live recordings of concerts performed during 2016 and 2017 at ...

On Thursday, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) announced that it will soon present an immersive Fisk Jubilee Singers exhibit. The exhibit, "Jubilation! Ambassadors on a Sacred ...

The Jubilee Singers’ first Grammy Award—for their 150th Anniversary album “Celebrating Fisk!”—has heightened interest in the group’s history and music.

Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University, an HBCU in Tennessee, return to Charlotte’s Knight Theater. They sing traditional Negro spirituals.

The Fisk Jubilee Singers originated in 1871, introducing “slave songs” to a broad audience, and performed for European royalty in the subsequent decades.

The Fisk Alumni Jubilee Singers Heritage Concert is being held on Friday, October 6 at 7:30pm in the Fisk Memorial Chapel, 1000 17 th Ave. No. Nashville, TN 37208. Proceeds go to benefit the ...

The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) will present "Jubilation! Ambassadors on a Sacred Journey," an exhibit celebrating the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The exhibit, opening May 10th in ...

Paul T. Kwami, the longtime director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who cemented the ensemble’s reputation as one of the country’s premier interpreters of African American spiritual music, died ...

Fisk Jubilee Singers with Mabel Lewis (second left), Ella Sheppard (centre) and America Robinson (right). Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty .