Gospel music

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Gospel music was born in the Black American churches in the 18th Century and became popular during the 1930´s.

We can find the origins of gospel music in the western African community that has been deported to the Americas by European colonizers and slave traders between 1619 and 1865. Most of the slaves came from the regions known as Senegal, Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leona, Liberia, Ghana, Benín, Nigeria, Camerun and parts of Congo. These slaves, as a manifestation of sorrow, began singing what we now know as “Black spirituals”, which later evolved to the early gospel music style.