PRESS RELEASE: Reverend Stefanie R. Minatee

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REVEREND STEFANIE R. MINATEE AND VOICES OF JUBILATION  

FEATURED ON RAY CHARLES CELEBRATES A GOSPEL CHRISTMAS with THE VOICES OF JUBILATION




PRESS RELEASE – For Immediate Release
 
Newark, NJ – Reverend Stefanie R. Minatee and Voices of Jubilation are featured on the Billboard Chart topping gospel hit CD and DVD, “Ray Charles Celebrates a Gospel Christmas with the Voices of Jubilation”.    This is one of the last live recordings that Ray Charles performed and produced before his death.  It is a wonderful tribute to an American legend and it keeps the true spirit of Christmas at the forefront of this recording.

Jubilation of Newark, New Jersey was established in October 1998 under the auspices of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.  It is a culturally mixed aggregation of auditioned voices, committed to singing African American sacred music with an emphasis on Gospel music. 

Out of the NJPAC the Voices of Jubilation was born as an outside entity in order to accommodate the many requests for the choirs presence.  As Voices of Jubilation they have garnered both national and international acclaim.

While most of the members are volunteers, professional singers are in the midst, all committed to ministry through song and praise. The choir just returned from  Sapporo and Tokyo Japan.  The Choir has also ministered with Evangelist Shirley Caesar,  Isaac Hayes, Michael Bolton, Walter Hawkins, Cissy Houston, Vickie Winans, Donnie McClurkin, and Donald Malloy, Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, Tramaine Hawkins and many others.

In January 2004, the Musical Director, Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee, was led to leave NJPAC.  Jubilation followed her, excited to explore new opportunities.  The new project, “Launching Out Into the Deep,” will be recorded “live” January 13, 2005 in Englewood, New Jersey at the Bergen Performing Arts Center.
 
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