How did Gospel Dream end up being on the Gospel Music Channel?
The G.M.C. was just starting up and at the time Alvin Williams was with Music World Entertainment. He told me there was a new network starting up and he wanted to send them some tapes of the show. The head honchos of the network really loved the program and the rest as they say is history. We’ve been there ever since. Eventually Alvin became one of the judges for the second season of Gospel Dream. When the show first started what kind of artists were you looking for? When we first started out we were really looking for Gospel artists that could sit in between the more established artist like Yolanda Adams and CeCe Winans, big artists like that. I think we succeeded with our first two winners, Benita Washington and Stephanie Dotson. Many of the viewers seemed a little disenchanted with the talent this year. What is your feeling on that? We got flack from the Gospel community about the talent, but the mainstream audience was more receptive to this season’s show. I wanted to make sure we
