HezHouse Entertainment has received its first Stellar Award nominations. Chorale favorite Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling are nominated in the Traditional Choir of the Year and Choir of the Year categories for the 37^th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. These are also the first Stellar nominations for Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling.

Hezekiah Walker, founder of HezHouse Entertainment, says: “The Stellar Gospel Music Awards are very special to choirs, as most awards shows don’t even have choir categories anymore. I am ecstatic for Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling to be nominated this year, and grateful for the role that HezHouse Entertainment is able to have in keeping the choir tradition going strong in Gospel music.”

The nominations were received for Kevin Lemons and Higher Calling’s HezHouse release Third Round. The lead single, “For Your Good,” peaked at #3 on the Billboard’s Gospel Digital Sales Chart and garnered over 100,000 streams. Third Round features 11 soul-stirring tracks, including the latest single,  “I Owe You”.

Kevin Lemons says: “I am overjoyed, surprised, elated; every good, happy emotion there is – that is how I feel. We’ve been doing music for a long time and never thought this day would come. Praise God it has. We are grateful.”

Third Round is available everywhere digital music is sold. Buy/Stream Third Round: https://kevinlemons.lnk.to/ThirdRoundEM!KL

Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling is celebrating its 25^th year anniversary as one of the most dynamic and captivating choirs in Gospel music with a new recording project that will be released later this year. As an introduction to the forthcoming LP, the single “For Your Good” is available today on all digital music providers. The lyric video  for the song will help you sing along about the “good news from glory” that all things will indeed work out for your good.

If the name of this group sounds familiar, that is because over the past 25 years they have traveled nationally and internationally, sharing the stage with everyone from Bebe Winans to Kirk Franklin to Hezekiah Walker. They have also ministered on the telecast of The Stellar Gospel Music Awards.

Lemons describes “For Your Good” as “a feel-good church song that gets you excited to think about the goodness of the Lord and everything that He has done; it’s a reminder that no matter what we are going through, it going to work out for our good.”

Hezekiah Walker says the energy and impeccable vocal harmonies of Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling is what drew him to this group. “Choirs are the bedrock of the Gospel music tradition,” says Walker. “Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling are proof that no matter the trends of the moment, there are young people who are also maintaining the choir tradition in fresh new ways.”

Lemons began directing under the tutelage of his father, who was director of the historic Atlanta Masonic Choir.  Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling was founded when 50 Atlanta-based singers came together for a one-time appearance in a special musical event that Lemons’ father had created. That event went so well, and the singers enjoyed working with each other – and Kevin – so much that they stayed together. Two recording projects and countless national and international singing engagements later, Higher Calling is now comprised of 100 members: the core 50+ Atlanta-based singers, and some 50 additional singers hailing from California, Virginia, the DMV, New York, New Orleans, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Kevin Lemons & Higher Calling is an enduring force.

Lemons himself is a force as a vocal director, and most recently oversaw vocals on the critically acclaimed Netflix presentation and soundtrack for Come Sunday. His prowess shines through beautifully on “For Your Good,” delivering a song perfectly timed for this season of enormous change.