Gospel Drumming at its best!
In today’s Blog we will be discussing an individual that has taken gospel drumming to another level. Calvin Rodgers is a musician that has played in the gospel industry for many of years. Calvin started at an early age but did his first major recording at the age of 15 with the Grammy award winning artist Ricky Dillard, and from there he has revolutionized the way gospel drumming is today.
Calvin Rodgers was Born and raised on the south side of Chicago where he learned and developed his craft. After taking on his father’s passion of music who was also a musician and a songwriter, Calvin was influenced to study other musicians such as Ramsey Lewis and Dave Weckel.
Throughout his career he has recorded and performed with Donald Lawrence Martha Munizzi, Fred Hammond, Tommy Simms, Marvin Sapp, Israel Houghton, Yolanda Adams, Clark Sisters and many more. After achieving these accomplishments, in 2010 Calvin was featured in an article as musician of the Month with verity records and was congratulated on his achievements. If you would like to see this article you can see at this link. http://insideverity.verityrecords.com/musician-of-the-month-calvin-rogers/comment-page-1/
Calvin Rodgers style of playing ranges from being a very musical and articulate style, to a very aggressive but rudimental style of playing. The song entitled “you can tell the devil I'm back” took gospel improvisation to a totally different level. Check out this link and let me know what you think.
Now Calvin Rodgers has not only played for gospel artist but he has played jazz, jazz fusion, R&B, and many other genres of music. He has even had the pleasure of playing for R&B artist such as Dave Hollister and the king of R&B, R. Kelly. Majority of African American drummers that grew up in rural areas has started out in gospel music whether they have branched off into other genres of music such as drummers like: Aaron Spears (Usher), Nissan Stewart (Missy Elliot) “Spanky” (Lady Gaga), and many others.
So now that you have read about one of my favorite drummers within the Gospel industry, tell me who is your favorite drummer in the gospel industry and why? The drummer that you discuss can be of a different genre but I would like it to be individuals that started out in the Gospel music.
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