Always loved the Staple Singers. My big sis had all the singles on Stax and they were played endlessly in our house back then. Their early stuff from the 50's is amazing.
Alice Coltrane, Hindu devotional mantra meets gospel.
Gaelic psalm singing from the Free Church on the Isle of Lewis. I love how the congregation are free to find their own ways through the psalm without set harmony or meter but the overall effect is of an unshakeable united community.
Dylan. IMO There's some of his greatest, most committed singing on "Slow Train Coming".
Richard and Linda Thompson. Another one, like The Staples above, that walks the line between earthly love and spiritual devotion - in this case Sufism.
I know we have recently had a thread about roots reggae but you can't talk about faith in music without mentioning Rastafarianism and its influence on reggae.
A Christian track that would get a parental advisory for racial language (as the actual subject of the track, before the famous Chris Rock routine on similar lines).
Qawwali is a goody and the LP Nightsong epic.
A spell binding collaboration by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Michael Brook.
There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa.
With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
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