Vocal & Gospel House
House with a singer on it. The gospel-trained voices, Robert Owens and Darryl Pandy, the piano and the diva vocal, and the church roots audible in most of it.
Part of Chicago House
20 moments in this segment.
- - Jamie Principle - "Your Love". First spun by Frankie Knuckles on reel-to-reel, foundational early house.
- - Jamie Principle - "Waiting on My Angel". An early Jamie Principle / Frankie Knuckles classic.
- - Jamie Principle - "Your Love" (1985). Jamie Principle’s "Your Love" and "Baby Wants to Ride", first heard on Frankie Knuckles’ reel, are foundational early house records.
- - Darryl Pandy - "Love Can’t Turn Around" (live). Darryl Pandy’s gospel-house vocal performance that stunned UK TV.
- - Frankie Knuckles ft. Jamie Principle - "It’s a Cold World". An early Knuckles/Principle collaboration.
- - Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - "Love Can’t Turn Around". One of house music’s first big UK hits, with Darryl Pandy’s huge vocal.
- - Gospel house - "Promised Land" lives on. Joe Smooth’s gospel-house anthem, still sung by choirs decades on.
- - Jamie Principle - "Baby Wants to Ride". Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles’ sensual, sprawling classic.
- - Joe Smooth ft. Anthony Thomas - "Promised Land". The original vocal of the gospel-house anthem.
- - Sterling Void - "It’s All Right". Later covered by Pet Shop Boys, a house standard.
- - Liz Torres - "Can’t Get Enough" (1987). A Chicago house vocalist on Jes Say / State Street.
- - Joe Smooth - "Promised Land" (1987). A gospel-tinged house anthem covered worldwide.
- - Raze - "Break 4 Love" (1988). A house anthem that crossed the Atlantic.
- - Kym Mazelle - "Useless". Chicago’s "first lady of house", a powerhouse vocalist.
- - Jamie Principle - "Bad Boy". More from the elusive early-house auteur.
- - Alison Limerick - "Where Love Lives" (Knuckles mix). Frankie Knuckles’ remix of a beloved vocal-house anthem.
- - CeCe Peniston - "Finally" (1991). A Chicago-rooted vocal-house smash that crossed to the global pop charts.
- - Roy Davis Jr. ft. Peven Everett - "Gabriel". A Chicago garage-house crossover classic that broke in the UK.
- - Ballroom, voguing & house’s queer roots. House grew out of Black and Latino, largely queer, club culture, the ballroom scene and voguing share its DNA.
- - Terry Hunter takes the gospel-house route. Chicago house veteran Terry Hunter plays a gospel, soulful and deep house set in Washington DC, recorded 15 February 2026 as part of Church On Sunday's month-long series "House Music is Black Music". A working example of how the Chicago sound is now framed as Black musical heritage.
