Ohio’s Bishop Rance Allen, a minister and singer widely known for the gospel hit “Something About the Name Jesus,” has passed away. He was 71. News of his death was formally announced by Bishop Robert ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few voices in gospel music have ever soared quite like Rance Allen’s. Known as the lead singer of the groundbreaking Rance Allen Group, he fused traditional gospel with soul, funk, ...

The Allen Family of Monroe has been lauded by musicologists and music historians as pioneers of contemporary gospel music. Led by Rance Allen – lead vocalist, pastor and founder of the Rance Allen ...

Rance Allen, the gospel singer renowned for transforming the genre with his contemporary sound, died early Saturday morning at age 71. Allen died while recovering from a medical procedure, his wife, ...