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Backstage at BET’s “Sunday Best”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
PHOTO CREDIT: Ben Rose/BET Networks
To borrow a bit from our own Jeff Foxworthy’s signature quip, You Know You’re At A Gospel Competition When…
— The in-house comedian (Small Fire, once known as Small Fry) jokes that she flips to celeb gossip show TMZ each night “because I feel like the Lord led me to watch it…Them folks be trying to catch you coming out of Kroger even,” she continued. “You got to be saved all the time around those people!”
— Kirk Franklin (second photo) spends off-camera time doing a hilarious imitation of fellow gospel singer and TV host, Dr. Bobby Jones.
— Judge BeBe Winans (pictured in top photo with fellow judges Mary Mary) introduces a new word to our vocabulary: “Authentical.” As in, in response to Franklin’s question about how he likes being in Atlanta, Winans replied: “It’s exciting…There’s just a love for gospel music in Atlanta. It’s authentical.” (P.S. Franklin also let it slip that Winans and sister CeCe - a part-time Atlantan - are making their first CD together in 15 years.)
— The audience members’ hair is as immaculately styled as the 20 contestants. (And Small Fire aided in that appearance, reminding them to powder themselves during the frequent breaks. “Make sure the make-up matches your skin,” she said playfully. “You’ll go back to work and they’ll be calling you two-tone.”)
— And not only was contemporary gospel star Donald Lawrence in the front row of the studio audience, but Usher’s mother Jonnetta Patton was right behind him (she’s friends with Mary Mary’s manager) and Millie Jackson’s daughter Keisha was sanctified enough to be a part of musical director Ray Chew’s “Sunday Best” band.
And those were only some of the sights and sounds at the four hour-plus first taping of BET’s second season of “Sunday Best” Thursday at Turner Studios. The show — taping in Atlanta only this year — start Sunday at 9 p.m. with the auditions.
Planning to tune in? Did you last year? Know anyone from Atlanta who made it to the show?
Comments
By Mark
March 6, 2009 4:58 PM | Link to this
I wouldn’t go see that black garbage if you paid me. Blacks may be good on the court, but they know nothing about music. Chanting into a mic isn’t an artform. It’s a sign of illiteracy. A moron could perform any kind of (c)rap. It’s like a bowel movement. And it smells just as bad.
By Holy Crap
March 9, 2009 12:21 PM | Link to this
Wow…I never knew Christian comedy wasn’t funny. I mean really not funny.
By Julie
March 22, 2009 9:04 PM | Link to this
Wow Mark, are you really that jealous of Black people? I am white and I envy their strength especially since animals like you still exsist in this world. May God Bless You.