Sounds of Blackness

7 Songs

43 Albums

About Sounds of Blackness

Sounds of Blackness is a vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz. The group scored several hits on the Billboard R&B and Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in the 1990s.

Top Songs

Optimistic

Optimistic Lyrics

Hold On (Change Is Comin')

Hold On (Change Is Comin') Lyrics

I Believe

I Believe Lyrics

God Cares

God Cares Lyrics

He Took Away All My Pain

He Took Away All My Pain Lyrics

A Place In My Heart

A Place In My Heart Lyrics

Children of the World

Children of the World Lyrics

Discography

WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE [feat. Jamecia Bennett, NUNNABOVE & Atlanta Drum Academy] - Single (2025)

WE'RE UNSTOPPABLE (feat. Jamecia Bennett, NUNNABOVE & Atlanta Drum Academy) [Single]

We Rise (feat. Sounds of Blackness) - Single (2024)

We Rise (feat. Sounds of Blackness)

We Rise (feat. Sounds of Blackness) - Single (2024)

We Rise (feat. Sounds of Blackness)

We Rise (feat. Ann Nesby) [Raf N' Soul New York Remix 2024] - Single (2024)

We Rise (feat. Ann Nesby) [Raf N' Soul New York Remix Radio Edit]
We Rise (feat. Ann Nesby) [Raf N' Soul New York Remix 2024]

Thankful - Single (feat. Jamecia Bennett & Buddy McLain) - Single (2024)

Thankful (feat. Jamecia Bennett & Buddy McLain)

WOKE [feat. Quan Howell] (2023)

WOKE (feat. Quan Howell) [Single]

#URGONNAWIN (Remix) [feat. Buddy McLain] - Single (2023)

#URGONNAWIN (feat. Buddy McLain) [Remix]

So Thankful (Remix) [feat. Sounds of Blackness & Jamecia Bennett] - Single (2023)

#URGONNAWIN - Single (2023)

#URGONNAWIN

Hold up Your Light (Afro Beat Mix) - Single (2022)

Hold up Your Light (Afro Beat Mix)

Hold Up Your Light - Single (2022)

Hold Up Your Light

Juneteenth Celebration (2022)

Juneteenth Celebration (Single)

To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) - Single (2021)

To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness)

To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) (2021)

To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Martyn Ware & Tom Gillieron Remix]
To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Phuzzed Up Shine Mix]
To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Phuzz's Space Organ Mix]
To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Dickey Doo's Walking Dub]
To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Dickey Doo's Disco Bomb]
To the Sky (feat. Sounds of Blackness) [Dickey Doo's Disco Bomb Radio Mix]

The Justice Project (50th Special Anniversary Edition) (2021)

Royalty (feat. HSRA) [Atomic K Remix]
Change the World
Hold on Jus' a Li'l While Longer
Sick & Tired (feat. HSRA)
Royalty (feat. HSRA)
Black Lives Matter: No Justice No Peace (feat. YuLanda)
Time for Reparations (Single)

Royalty (Atomic K Remix) [feat. HSRA] - Single (2021)

Royalty (feat. HSRA) [Atomic K Remix]

Time for Reparations (2021)

Time for Reparations (Single)

Don't Cry (feat. Sounds of Blackness) - Single (2021)

Don't Cry (feat. Sounds of Blackness)

Sick & Tired (feat. HSRA) - Single (2020)

Sick & Tired (feat. HSRA)

Til I Found You (feat. Ann Nesby, "Big Jim" Wright & Lauren Evans) - Single (2019)

Til I Found You (feat. Ann Nesby, "Big Jim" Wright & Lauren Evans)

Ain't Gonna Whistle Dixie Anymore (feat. Wee Willie Walker & Sounds of Blackness) - Single (2018)

Ain't Gonna Whistle Dixie Anymore (feat. Wee Willie Walker & Sounds of Blackness)

We Rise (Raf 'n' Soul New York Remix) - Single (2018)

We Rise (Raf 'n' Soul New York Remix)

Royalty (feat. HSRA) - Single (2016)

Royalty (feat. HSRA)

Black Lives Matter: No Justice No Peace - Single (feat. YuLanda) - Single (2015)

Black Lives Matter: No Justice No Peace (feat. YuLanda)

The Sounds of Blackness (2011)

Fly Again (Rap Version) [feat. Xross]
Ubuntu
Soon Ah Will Be Done
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Come Back Home
Have Fun
Hey Jude
Testify
Believe In Me
You Were There
Rise
Togetherness
Keep On Keepin' On
A Call to Healing
Fly Again

Fly Again (Rap Version) [feat. Jamecia Bennett & XROSS] - Single (2011)

Fly Again (Rap Version) [feat. Jamecia Bennett & XROSS]

Fly Again (feat. Jamecia Bennett) - Single (2011)

Fly Again (feat. Jamecia Bennett)

The 3rd Gift - Story, Song & Spirit (2009)

Harambee (Help Is On the Way)
Great Getting' Up Mornin' (feat. Patricia Lacy-Aiken)
Steal Away (feat. Ethylon "Eb" Brown and Ginger Commodore)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (feat. Jayn Higgins)
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel / Joshua F’it the Battle of Jericho (feat. Geoffrey Jones and Chreese Jones)
Certainly Lord (feat. Thelma Buckner and Patricia Lacy-Aiken)
Legacy (feat. 4given)
God Bless the Child (feat. Doris Hines and 4given)
The Path of Healing (feat. Andrea Tribitt)
Healing (feat. Yulanda and Brandon Eiynck)
Audacity of Hope (We Are One)
God Is Love (feat. Terrence Frierson and Andrea Tribitt)
Optimistic (feat. Carrie Harrington, Andrea Tribitt, Chreese Jones & Patricia Lacy)
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (feat. Bridget Dawkins, Terrence Frierson, Patricia Lacy-aiken & Cynthia)

Sounds of Blackness (2009)

Victory Command
Walk Through These Woods
Padal
Le Prisme de Apolloa Captive

Kings & Queens - Message Music from the Movement (2008)

Dont Stop 'Til You Reach the Top
Odunde'
Rock My Soul / King Jesus Is A-Listenin'
Let My People Go
I Got a Robe
Hold On Jus' a Li'l While Longer
My Soul Is Rested
Children of the Dream
March Song Medley (Eyes On the Prize, Turn Me 'Round, Oh Freedom)
Precious Lord
Free At Last
We Shall Overcome
Martin Luther King
Be Real Black for Me
The Message
She Is Love
Kings & Queens
Time for Love

To Grover, With Love (2006)

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Unity (2005)

Be Encouraged
Life
I'm Movin
Over My Head
All God's Children
They That Wait
A Second Chance
Try
Trouble
Prelude
Put the Finger On Me
Heaven
Unity

Unity (2005)

Life
Be Encouraged
I'm Movin
All God's Children
Over My Head
They That Wait
A Second Chance
Try
Trouble
Prelude
Put The Finger On Me
Heaven
Unity

The Night Before Christmas 2 (2004)

Holy Are You Lord (Instrumental)
All Through the Night (Instrumental)
Holiday Love 2 (Instrumental)
All Through the Night
Holy Are You Lord
Love Is Born
Silent Night
For Christmas' Sake
We're So Grateful
Holiday Love 2
The Jolly One Is Here 2
Super Fine Reindeer
Do the Funky Chitlin'
Joy of Christmas
Season of Joy

The Very Best of Sounds of Blackness (2001)

Optimistic
I Believe
Hold On (Change Is Comin')
Soul Holidays
Love Will Never Change
Spirit (feat. Craig Mack)
The Lord Will Make a Way
The Harder They Are the Bigger They Fall
Black Butterfly
I'm Going All the Way
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
Joy
Your Wish Is My Command
Testify
The Pressure, Pt. 1
Chains

Reconciliation (1999)

Sounds of Blackness / Take the A Train
Reconciliation Blues (Interlude)
Straight Ahead
Don't Be Afraid to Dream
Rainbow
Love Will Change Things
Tell Me What You Thinkin' About
For Old Times Sake
Twenty Four and Back Again
Reconciliation
Thank You
You Are the One
DJ Intro
Try

Time for Healing (1997)

Hold On (Change Is Comin')
God Cares
Kwanzaa-Umoja-Uhuru (Swahili) [First Fruits of the Harvest-Unity-Freedom]
Hold On (Change Is Comin') [Roger Troutman Remix]
We Are Gonna Make It Through, Pt. 3
Time for Healing
Familiar Waters
So Far Away
A Spiritual Medley: I'll Open My Mought to the Lord / I'll Be Ready
The Blackness Blues
You Can Make It If You Try
We Are Gonna Make It Through, Pt. 2
Crisis
Hold On (Don't Let Go)
Love Train
Love Will Never Change
We Are Gonna Make It Through, Pt. 1
Spirit
Africana

Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Remixes) - EP (1994)

Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Chuff Chuff Dub)
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (CJ's Dub)
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Foundation Mix)
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (Foundation Edit)
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright (CJ's Radio Mix)

Africa to America; The Journey of the Drum (1994)

I Believe
He Took Away All My Pain
A Place in My Heart
Ah Been 'Buked, Pt. 2
Livin' the Blues
You've Taken My Blues & Gone
Black Butterfly
Strange Fruit
A Very Special Love
African Medley
The Drum (Africa to America)
The Harder They Are the Bigger They Fall
The Lord Will Make a Way
Sun Up to Sundown
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
Hold On, Pt. 2
Ah Been 'Buked, Pt. 1
I'm Going All the Way
Hold On, Pt. 1

Africa To America: The Journey Of The Drum (1994)

I'm Going All The Way
Ah Been 'Buked, Pt. 2
Livin' The Blues
You've Taken My Blues & Gone
Black Butterfly
A Very Special Love
Strange Fruit
African Medley
The Drum (Africa To America)
The Harder They Are The Bigger They Fall
The Lord Will Make A Way
Sun Up To Sundown
Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
Hold On, Pt. 2
Ah Been 'Buked, Pt. 1
I'm Going All The Way
Hold On, Pt. 1
I Believe
He Took Away All My Pain
A Place In My Heart

Soul Christmas Greatest Hits (1992)

Soul Holidays

The Night Before Christmas - a Musical Fantasy (1992)

Merry Christmas to the World
Why Don't You Believe In Me?
Santa Watch Yo' Step
Give Us a Chance
Dash Away All/Reindeer Revolt
The Jolly One's Here
Santa Won't You Come By?
Holiday Love
Dance, Chitlins, Dance
Santa's Comin' to Town
Children Go
Peace On Earth for Everyone
O'Holy Night
O'Come All Ye Faithful
Away In a Manger
It's Christmas Time
Soul Holidays
Born In a Manger

Evolution of Gospel (1991)

Optimistic
Harambee
I'll Fly Away
Please Take My Hand
Better Watch Your Behavior
What Shall I Call Him?
He Holds the Future
We Give You Thanks
Hallelujah Lord!
Your Wish Is My Command
The Pressure, Pt. 2
Stand
Gonna Be Free One Day
Testify
The Pressure, Pt. 1
Ah Been Workin
Chains

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