It is Saturday morning in Harlem, but, outside a townhouse on 126th Street, it sounds like a Sunday. This is no storefront church but an institution that is preserving the great musical tradition of African-American gospel music and passing it along to a new generation that may never have heard of Mahalia Jackson or […]
Vy Higginsen’s Gospel for Teens Choir has released their debut single, “Yes We Can,”The choir’s debut album will soon be released on the new Harlem Records label. Vy Higginsen’s Gospel for Teens Choir is a nationally recognized and award-winning ensemble that is currently featured in the Off-Broadway production of Mama, I Want to Sing: The […]
A Harlem choir director recently profiled on “60 Minutes” will see her story come to the big screen. Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming reports that Universal Pictures and Illuminaton Entertainment have acquired the rights package to make a film based on the “60 Minutes” segment profiling Vy Higginsen, an accomplished gospel singer who started a program for […]
A Harlem choir director recently profiled on “60 Minutes” will see her story come to the big screen. Deadline.com’s Mike Fleming reports that Universal Pictures and Illuminaton Entertainment have acquired the rights package to make a film based on the “60 Minutes” segment profiling Vy Higginsen, an accomplished gospel singer who started a program for […]
It’s no secret that New York radio personality and theater producer Vy Higginsen is on a mission to save today’s teens. Not only is Higginsen concerned with educating America’s youth, she is also determined to redeem the art and history of Gospel music through her Harlem organization ‘Gospel for Teens.’ Each fall, Higginsen, who also […]
It’s no secret that New York radio personality and theater producer Vy Higginsen is on a mission to save today’s teens. Not only is Higginsen concerned with educating America’s youth, she is also determined to redeem the art and history of Gospel music through her Harlem organization ‘Gospel for Teens.’ Each fall, Higginsen, who also […]
There’s a street in Harlem that comes alive every Saturday with the sound of gospel music. You won’t find any church there – just a brownstone full of teenagers and the woman who draws them in. Her name is Vy Higginsen, a New York radio personality and theater producer. Five years ago she created something […]
