Building the Urban Praise & Worship Genre with Fred Hammond

Fred Hammond is one of the most respected names in the music industry. He is a Grammy Award-winning vocalist, songwriter, musician, producer and arranger, and the architect behind the genre of Urban Praise & Worship—a genre of gospel music that did not exist prior. Fred speaks on the instruments he fell in love with at an early age, the influence of the R&B scene on his work (and how using that influence got him out of his own way in trying to write traditional gospel music), and the ...