The Nigerian gospel music is as old as the Nigerian Church. As the normal Church services are conducted and laced with different spiritual songs, popular Christian festivals such as Christmas and Easter, and Church programmes like crusades, revivals, dedications, thanksgiving and Harvests (in some orthodox Churches) are celebrated with a special service of songs performed by the choir.
However, with the advent of the electronic age and borrowing from the western gospel singers like the Black Wood Brothers, the Speer Family, the Staple Singers, Jim Reeves and Al-Green, many of whom are American musicians that have succeeded through the vinyl in taking gospel music out of the confines of their Churches to the wider embrace of the public, Nigerian Churches through their choirs began to wax gospel records.
