BEN TANKARD Nominated For NAACP Image Award & “RISE” Single Hits #2 On Billboard Jazz Radio Chart | @BenTankard
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Nashville, TN — Ben Tankard has been bestowed with many titles and decorated with some of the highest honors in entertainment, arts, and music. He is a multiple Grammy®, Dove and Soul Train Award nominee with Gold and Platinum selling Gospel and Jazz albums. He has earned 15 Stellar Gospel Awards and inducted into the Stellar Awards Honors Hall of Fame in 2018.
With a music career spanning three decades, Ben has topped the Billboard Gospel and Jazz charts with each album and has landed at the top again. His single “Rise” hit #2 this week on the Billboard Smooth Jazz National Airplay Chart. Ben’s remake of Herb Alpert’s iconic jazz hit features Marion Meadows on sax and is the first single from his RISE album which peaked at #13 on Billboard Top Gospel Albums Chart. RISE, released on his Ben-Jamin Universal Music record label, features collaborations with Paul Jackson, Jr. on “More Rain”, and with Kirk Whalum on “It’s Working”.
The author, musician, producer, pilot, and pastor of a thriving church near Nashville, TN continues the poised ascension in his career and is now celebrating his first NAACP Image Award Nomination. Ben and his RISE album are nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album.
Contact BEN-Jamin Universal: bentankard@comcast.net
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