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Kirk Franklin
Kirk Franklin's 1997 song "Stomp," incorporating hip-hop and funk production elements alongside traditional gospel vocal arrangements, helped pioneer contemporary urban gospel and brought the genre significant mainstream crossover attention it had rarely achieved previously. His willingness to incorporate secular musical production techniques into explicitly Christian lyrical content drew some criticism from more traditional gospel purists, even as Franklin's commercial success helped introduce gospel music to significantly younger and more mainstream audiences than the genre had typically reached. Franklin has won numerous Grammy Awards across his career, and his combination of contemporary urban production and traditional gospel message has made him one of the most commercially successful gospel artists of the past three decades, bridging traditional church audiences and mainstream urban music listeners. His continued influence on subsequent contemporary Christian and gospel artists, many of whom have directly cited Franklin's willingness to blend secular production styles with gospel content as foundational to their own approach, has made him one of the most significant figures in gospel music's modern commercial evolution.
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The Clark Sisters
The Clark Sisters, a group of five siblings from Detroit, became one of the most influential and commercially successful gospel vocal groups in the genre's history, and their intricate, layered vocal harmonies significantly influenced the development of contemporary urban gospel and R&B vocal arrangement more broadly. Their 1981 song "Is My Living in Vain" became one of the most enduringly popular songs in gospel music history, and the group's combination of technical vocal complexity with genuinely soulful, emotionally direct delivery distinguished them from more straightforwardly traditional gospel choir groups. The sisters' mother, Mattie Moss Clark, was herself a significant figure in gospel music as a choir director within the Church of God in Christ, and her direct musical training of her daughters gave the group a foundational vocal technique built on deep institutional gospel church tradition. The Clark Sisters' influence on subsequent R&B and secular vocal groups, several of whose members have directly credited the group's complex harmony arrangements as a formative influence, has made them one of the most musically significant vocal groups in the broader history of Black American gospel and R&B music.
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