Posted on 01/11/2020 9:48:14 AM PST by DoodleBob
Gloria Gaynor will be honored at the 2020 She Rocks Awards at House of Blues Anaheim on Friday, Jan. 17...during the NAMM Show. ...
The honorees include:
Gloria Gaynor, Grammy Award-winning “I Will Survive” singer and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee
Linda Perry, acclaimed singer-songwriter and producer
Lzzy Hale, Grammy Award-winning Halestorm frontwoman
Suzi Quatro, pioneering bassist, singer-songwriter and actress
Beatie Wolfe, singer-songwriter
Tal Wilkenfeld, singer-songwriter and bassist
Suzanne D’Addario Brouder, executive director of the D’Addario Foundation
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Gaynor, who celebrated her 70th birthday in 2019, is best known for her 1978 disco anthem “I Will Survive.”
All these years later, Gaynor said she’s still “surviving” and just last year dropped the gospel album “Testimony,” which has been nominated for two Grammy awards this year. Gaynor said she also realized this was an important record to make to share that her “mess has become my message,” she added with a laugh.
“The reason why I did that album is that all of these years I have been telling people ‘I Will Survive,’ and they’ve been shouting it, hearing it and have been encouraged by it. But the fact of the matter is, as much as people claim it has done for them, I know you have to have something more than just that,” she said. “For me personally, without Christ, “I Will Survive,” is little more than a catchphrase. I recognized that you have to reach deep down inside and grab ahold of something, so when the winds of time and misfortune and all of that start blowing, you don’t blow away with it.
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It's good to see her getting recognition when she's religious. NAMM is a great trade show to boot. I wonder if there will be any talk about AB5.
You ever catch Tal playing bass? Good stuff.
That was also the case of Donna Summer, I think the gay community disowned her because she was also a devout Christian.
“singer-songwriter Tal Wilkenfeld” — she plays bass, toured with Jeff Beck for a few years a few years back.
She’s a savage, very skilled despite her youth.
Tal got the Beck gig on the strength of drummer Vinnie Caliuta’s recommendation. If Vinnie says she’s good, she’s good (and her playing IS good).
:-) Yup. Then again, I know a bunch of players that are probably as good or better on a bunch of different intruments. But, as things go in life, not in the right place at the right time. Kind of like a fate thing. Taking nothing from those that have been “discovered”. I just enjoy doing some picking when I can.
Shes singing in a self-identified gay bar.
She’s not that religious.
Jesus hung out with sinners too.
Jesus never gave them the impression He was fine with their sinning.
nor did He do a show for them.
Oops. Can’t get good help these days!
You’re right, of course. He forgave, and commanded that they sin no more. But he is a physician, and he came for the sick. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with spending time with “sinners,” so long as their sin is not condoned.
They paid her to sing there. She took a gig. She’s ok with the sin. they didn’t pay Jesus to come there and He didn’t do a song and dance for them.
Check out Luke 19:1-10, the story of Zacchaeus and Jesus. Zacchaeus was a tax collector, and therefore a member of the “sinner” class. Jesus initiated going to his house as a guest, and presumably ate some of his food and drank some of his drink. And the religious class’s response? “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
Jesus is fine rubbing shoulders with sinners. He’s fine with them massaging his feet. He’s fine spending time with them at a well, or breaking bread with them, or protecting them from people with heavy rocks in their hands.
It is good for us to spend time with “sinners,” to be salt and light and to speak the truth in love. It is not fine, of course, to affirm or condone or enable any sin.
Bonus thought: The only person who survived the battle of Jericho was ... a sexual sinner. God specifically protected her, because He loved her. And that prostitute ... is in Jesus’ lineage.
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