A softer side of me,” said Bishop Marvin Sapp (“Never Would Have Made it”) about the release of his debut R&B EP “If I Were ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: By the time Marvin Sapp was 10 years old, he was singing all the time. He sang in church. He sang R&B with his buddies. But then his mother told him he had to make a choice.

(“I wonder,” muses on-air personality Tyrene “TJ” Jackson on the track, “What it would sound like… an R&B song, or a whole R&B project by Marvin Sapp?”) Second, after a 36-year ...

Marvin Sapp transforms our office into a sanctuary, performing an 11-song medley of gospel hits across his career.