Award-winning singer Vickie Winans comes from a large family of impressive gospel singers. She began her career when she was a small child, performing with family. All grown up, she completed her debut solo album, Be Encouraged, in 1985. It was the first of a long line of recordings that would bring her a number of hits and music awards. Born the seventh child of a still-growing family, Winans was raised in Detroit, MI. Her entire family was a musical one, and deeply religious as well. She was only about eight years old when she began singing at the family church, astounding the audience with her vocal ability.

Her love for the Gospel and music was the perfect combination. She's shared success with the famous Winans family, for she married Marvin Winans and eventually joined forces with the gospel group. Vickie's first solo album carries a track that became her signature song, "We Shall Behold Him." The debut full-length offering also earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Contemporary Soul Gospel Album, a Stellar Award for Album of the Year, and an Excellence Award for Best Female Contemporary Artist. It was a foretelling of what was to come. Through the latter half of the '80s into the next decade, Winans recorded several award-winning albums.

When not in the recording studio, she spent much of her time performing more than 200 nights most years. She has also made numerous television appearances on shows like Oprah, the Grammy Awards, Arsenio Hall, Queen Latifah, and The Pat Sajak Show and starred in Broadway musicals like Don't Get God Started.

Talented? Prodigy? Gifted? Inspired? Driven? Dedicated? Actually, there is no one word that can quite describe Micah Stampley the man, the minister, the husband, the father, the musician, and the community philanthropist. With a multi-octave voice of literally staggering power and sensitivity, and a fluent writer’s hand with both words and music, he has moved from near-total obscurity to one of Gospel’s most talked-about artists in a short time.From his birth in Los Angeles, California to his humble beginnings growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as one of eight children born to Richard Stampley, a carpenter and craftsmen of fine furniture and cabinetry by trade and a Pastor, and Delmarie Stampley, a devoted mother and homemaker, to his chart topping sophomore album, A Fresh Wind . . .The Second Sound; Micah Stampley is a musical phenomenon on the rise.

Micah Stampley's multi-octave singing range has taken him to the brink of stardom, with a flurry of appearances in the United States, London, and Paris. He is finding fans around the world and earning steady sales in places like Kuwait and Australia. In March of 2005, his first gospel album, The Songbook of Micah, debuted at number three of Billboard's chart, an astounding accomplishment for a new artist. It was the second highest debut in Billboard's history for a male gospel artist, putting him ahead of gospel greats Smokie Norful, Kirk Franklin, and Donnie McClurkin. Made with the help of his songwriting partner and wife Heidi Stampley, The Songbook of Micah combines R&B, traditional gospel, and hip-hop to position Stampley for a leap to stardom.

Paul Wilbur is an American singer-songwriter, worship leader, and pastor in the Messianic music genre. He has produced six albums under the Integrity Music label and appears with other artists on albums produced with Israel’s Hope. He has also produced three albums in Jerusalem, Israel; and most of his albums in the United States.

His life - Extract from Wilbur Ministries

The world’s opera stages and synagogues were the ambition of a determined young man named Paul Wilbur. A passion for the arts and music took him from under graduate school in Cleveland, Ohio across the Atlantic to study in Milan, Italy. There he was instructed in vocal technique, Italian, and opera by some of La Scala’s most skilled mentors.

“By the time I had returned from Italy the direction of my life had been pretty well set in stone,” Paul says. “The life of Richard Tucker had become a pattern to success that I wished to emulate. Here was a Jewish man, who was one of the world’s most revered operatic tenors, and who also honored his religious tradition by singing under the domed roofs of the world’s synagogues.”

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Husband and wife duo David and Nicole Binion are passionate about worshipping God and leading others into His presence. For 10 years, David served as an associate pastor and worship leader/choir director at a 3,000 member church until God led him and Nicole into full-time, itinerant ministry in 1998. They have ministered in churches across the world and have made several television appearances on the Daystar Television Network and the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The couple has also worked closely with Revivalist Tommy Tenney, author of The God Chasers, leading worship in many of his meetings.

David has written countless worship songs that have ministered literally around the globe. Together, they have recorded several live worship CDs, including “The Sound of Heaven” which is collaboration with renowned gospel songwriter Andrae Crouch. The Binions have also released their latest holiday recording entitled "When Heaven Kisses the Earth." David and Nicole reside near Dallas, Texas, with their two young children. This couple has blessed such congregations as the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Lakewood Church and Without Walls International Church (to name a few), and now they are coming to The World Summit to bless your soul. With songs written from the depths of their heart, such as “I Love You”; “Be Still”; “My Heart Belongs to You”; and “Heaven on Earth,” the Binions will lead you into a deeper experience with the Lord through their anointed music ministry.

 

JoAnn DeVeaux-Callender, Soprano, is a living treasure of the Bahamas. Singing since the age of three she has performed in Canada, Europe, the United States of America and throughout the Caribbean to countries including Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. JoAnn DeVeaux-Callender has performed for various members of state under the patronages of the Government and of the Governor General of The Bahamas. She has also performed for international organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Most notably, she sang the role of Sister Josetta in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in the October, 1985 production of the Bahamian Folk Opera “The Legend of Sammie Swain."

JoAnn DeVeaux-Callender is guest soloist on three recordings by The Bahamas National Youth Choir and has a solo debut album Christmas Joy. She has performed with the University of Miami Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Nazareth College Rochester, New York, and the highly acclaimed Moscow Soloists Orchestra under the direction of violist/conductor Yuri Bashmet. She is also a poet, lyricist, playwright, composer and author with works featured in past publications of In Tune, the weekly devotions booklet published by UMI Inc., in Chicago, Ill.

 

After listening to Jeannette Bayardelle sing, one wonders if you have just had a sneak peak into the world of angels. Her voice allows us to bridge the divide of the natural world and evokes a praise from within that threatens to drive us to our knees. After hearing just one song from this passionate woman, the only conclusion to draw is that her gift is certainly divine. And, thankfully, she has chosen to share her voice with the world.

Jeannette starred in “The Color Purple” as Celie on Broadway. She also originated the role of Celie on the First National tour of “The Color Purple” where she received an NAACP award for best lead actress in a musical. Her extraordinary performances on stage lead her to work on Disney’s ‘Princess and The Frog” and “Little Mermaid III (Ariel’s Beginning). Other credits include: Rent, Big River, Best of Both Worlds, Elergies, and Zinzi.