For the seventh year in a row, projects on which Paul Christensen and his wife Donna Christensen have worked as Television Producer, have been nominated for a Grammy® by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences® (NARAS®). The two nominations in the Gospel Music Category, were announced earlier this week in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills Hotel, by the Recording Academy’s President and CEO, Michael Greene.
One nomination was for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album, from a live concert recording and video project for AIR Gospel Records, Atlanta, with recording artist, Dottie Peoples, titled “God Can and God Will.” The second Grammy® nomination for Best Gospel Choir or Choir Album,resulted from a Malaco Records live recording and concert video project involving the Mississippi Mass Choir, titled, “Emmanuel, God With Us.”
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on February 23, 2000, during the 42nd Annual Grammy® Awards Show, carried live by CBS and originating from Los Angeles’ new state of the art venue, the Staples Center. Each year the nominees and winners are chosen by their industry peers, the 14,000 voting members of the Recording Academy®.
In addition to the Grammy® nominated sound tracks, the videos produced by the Christensen’s have enjoyed a high ranking on the Billboard Magazine Video Charts. The Dottie Peoples project also resulted in the company helping to release the first DVD concert video in the Gospel market, an experience that proved quite a challenge.
During the company’s 27 year history, these awards represent the 14th and 15th Grammy® nominations Omega projects have received, as well as the eighth and ninth nominations during the past seven years.
The other seven recent nominations were a Fred Hammond project for Verity Records in 1998, titled, “Pages of Life I and II,” a 1997 live concert by Verity artist, Hezekiah Walker titled, “Live in London,” a 1996 Benson Records project with Hezekiah Walker, Yolanda Adams and Fred Hammond, a Malaco Records recording of Rev. James Moore and the Mississippi Mass Choir in 1995, a Malaco project by Rev. Moore and a Warner Alliance live recording of O’Landa Draper, both in 1994, and a 1993 Blackberry Records sound track and video, featuring The Canton Spirituals.