The Original USA Gospel Singers & Band

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The Original USA Gospel Singers & Band sweep the audience along! With over 25 years of touring experience and more than one million visitors, the gospel group can already look back on an impressive record! And the success story continues. They have delighted audiences not only at the venerable Scala in Milan, but also the Pope at the Christmas concert in the Vatican. The Afro-American gospel group with live band brings the original feeling of Black gospel culture close in an authentic way and tells its story. From its beginnings to the present day, from Mahalia Jackson to James Cleveland. The ensemble includes selected top singers, excellent soloists and musicians who, in a two-hour programme, offer everything that makes gospel so special: emotion, spirituality and pure joy of life. The aim of every performance by the Original USA Gospel Singers is to bring people closer together through the immense, spiritual power of the individual songs. An important part of every show is the active participation of the audience. Hand in hand, the audience experiences the power of real gospel music. The emotions aroused make the evening an unforgettable experience. What characterises gospel? A typical feature of gospel singing is antiphony, the alternation between lead singer and choir, also called "Call and Response". Another African-influenced element of gospel music is the distinctive African tonality. Pentatonic scales dominate, that is, the use of a scale which, unlike the seven-note system of European music, uses only five notes. Only later did heptatonic scales emerge in Afro-American music too, with the addition of the third and seventh, the so-called "Blue Notes". These intervals are also what still distinguish African and Afro-American music from European major-minor tonality. A final special feature, which can be traced back to the African roots of the Nigro Spirital, is "timbre", the special sound colour of the voice in African singing. As they sing, the performers develop a wealth of ways to differentiate individual notes. Above all, this is about expressing their personal mood. The result is sounds that can seem rough and hoarse, even turning into an unclean cry, yet can also sound pleasantly soft and delicate to the ear.

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