Although Amy Offer cannot claim to have invented the contemporary Christian music (CCM) design of gospel music, she did probably the most to popularize it in the 1970s and 1980s before successfully crossing to pop music within the ’80s and early ’90s. When Give arrived as an adolescent within the …

Canada’s Diana Panton can be an adept, Juno Award-winning jazz vocalist and educator using a bent toward delicate, heartfelt readings of specifications. A indigenous of Hamilton, Ontario, Panton was raised listening to traditional music and was initially released to jazz when her dad performed her an Ella Fitzgerald record. Along …