The Pulse of Entertainment: Bishop Marvin Sapp Releases Debut R&B Project ‘If I Were an R&B Singer' with
‘Free Fallin' Single Leading Its Release
(March 4, 2025) - "A softer side of me," said Bishop Marvin
Sapp ("Never Would Have Made it") about the release of his debut R&B EP "If I Were an
R&B Singer" (Elev8 Entertainment). "Normally people say I have a church voice...that shouts at you."
Twenty-four-time Stellar Award-winning Marvin Sapp released an EP of four love songs
inspired by his son and friend who wanted to hear his R&B voice. Bishop Sapp used live musicians when recording the EP
- Johnny Steele (string arrangements); Theo Akai (guitar); Roy Cotton (strings); Bubby Lewis (bass), and Jeremy Winbush (drums).
"I have always sung Gospel music - all my life...my mother made me choose...at
10 years old. I decided to sing Gospel, but I had major R&B influence. When people were listening to New Edition...I was
listening to Peabo Bryson, Teddy Pendergrass...," he said about his journey to being one of today's most popular Gospel
singers/songwriters.
The Marvin Sapp "If I Were an R&B
Singer" EP is co-written and produced by Kolten Perrine (Ed Sheeran). His eldest song Marvin "Jamar Prince"
Sapp, II co-wrote the first single from the EP titled "Free Fallin'." Other singles include "Listen,"
"Moment or Lifetime," and "Through My Pain."
"‘Listen'
is a great sing...has a Maxwell vibe. You can sing about love (via R&B) but it doesn't have to change your relationship
with Christ," the Bishop pointed out. "My son and Kolten, his friend who actually the produced it, they said they
wanted to do it properly."
"I wanted to paint a picture
of what love use to look like," Marvin stressed about the R&B EP "If I Were an R&B Singer". "Today
its more sexual."
He goes on to say, "I'm nervous (about
the EP) people can be judgmental. (However) This is a onetime thing for me."
On the subject of love we started to talk in-depth about his love for his late wife Dr. MaLinda Prince Sapp.
"I'm single by default not by choice. My wife and I were together for 18 years.
If she was alive, we'd still be together. We had a really good marriage. We made a commitment that we knew we were not going
anywhere. I learned her crazy and she learned mine," he laugh when saying the last statement. "We worked hard....not
just in public but in private. Today you have so many relationship experts that are not in relationships!"
Marvin Sapp and his wife MaLinda founded the Lighthouse Full Life Center Church in
Michigan in 2003. He was already a figure in the Gospel industry having started as a member of the Grammy winning Contemporary
Gospel group Commission. Today he is Bishop at the Chosen Vessel Cathedral which he founded in 2017. Him and MaLinda have
two other children, aside from 28-year-old Marvin II who is a Howard graduate, that include Madisson Grace Sapp and Mikaila
Sapp. Marvin Sapp has been in the music business for 36 years and has released 16 albums and garnered 24 Stellar awards; two
BET Awards; 11 Grammy nominations; one GMA Dive Award; five GMA Dove nominations, and multi-Billboard Award nominations.
"I diffidently made a point to make it different," Marvin Sapp told me when
I asked about his R&B style. "I'm more melodic...a softer side of me...falsetto. I re-invented myself, showing my
range. I'm excited." www.MarvinSapp.com www.TheChosenVessel.org
The Pulse of Entertainment: Blackground Record's
Mylo Waiters Release ‘Let Em Know' Single Written by Sean Garrett
by Dr. Eunice Moseley
(February 28, 2025) - "It's actually a real story," said Blackground
Record's Mylo Waiters (Martell Waiters, Jr.) about his new single release "Let Em Know" (Blackground Records) written
by Grammy winning hitmaker Sean Garrett. "I met Sean Garrett...and he took me under his wing. We were talking about life."
Then Garrett writes a new song about what he said to Mylo, that he should let people
know about his talents. The Sean Garrett "Let Em Know" single debuted at #27 on Billboard and at the time of my
interview with him had risen to #19 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart-topper.
"I like bringing people together," Mylo said about himself. "People text me from different countries
about their problems. My life is about helping people....through my music and by talking."
On the single "Let Em Know" you will find Mylo Waiters singing with the rhythm and soulfulness
found in any of the iconic R&B singers of today. However, the Philadelphia native from the Johnson Homes Projects came
to Blackground's attention as a rapper.
"I met with Barry (owner
Blackground records) rapping," Mylo explained. "As I went into the studio I was singing, and he said, ‘That's
what we are going to do - sing'."
Waiters said he was busy trying to make money for him and his family when
life introduced him to the legendary label of the iconic Aaliyah.
"So,
I want to focus on R&B and later on rap," he informed me.
"I've
put out a couple records...'Working,' ‘Damn' and ‘My Artist Is On It' which was reposted by Kanye West, Jay Z,
and Snoop."
Mylo Waiters' single before "Let Em Know"
was "Self-Love," released in 2023 produced by Phenom.
"I
get my motivation from my mom," Waiters said when I asked. "I get my drive from my dad, my ambition from my grandmother...I
used to sing on the train for money to feed my family." www.BlackgroundRecords.net
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Dr. Eunice Moseley
has an estimated weekly readership of over one million with The Pulse of Entertainment. She is also a Business Management/Public
Relations Strategist and Consultant at Freelance Associates and is Promotions Director (at-large) for The Baltimore Times.
www.ThePulseofEntertainment.com. EVENTS: "Uplifting Minds II" Entertainment Conference (ULMII),
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