Word Entertainment launches “All-Star Gospel Hits”

BRENDA BOSWELL began working at Word Records in Waco Texas in 1976. At the time, she ran the Word Record music clubs
(the Canaan southern gospel, the Word traditional gospel and the Music Connection contemporary Christian music club) which blossomed into an $8 million a year enterprise for Word with a membership of 150,000. Boswell was also part of the team that helped break Amy Grant’s first gold/platinum album “Age to Age” in 1983. Boswell also created three best-selling television direct record sales campaigns with a B.J. Thomas collection, a Tennessee Ernie Ford package and a Contemporary Christian Music hits collection. She left as an employee in 1986 and has remained a consultant to Word over the years.

BILL CARPENTER is co-founder of Capital Entertainment, an entertainment public relations company based in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of Bourgogne in France and graduated with a degree in history from American University in 1991. He was a junior press secretary for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign and was media director for Coretta Scott King’s 1993 March on Washington anniversary celebration. Over the years, he has handled publicity for artists as diverse as the late hip-hop/R&B crooner Aaliyah to Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson. He’s also done press work with a variety of gospel stars ranging from Bishop T.D. Jakes to Vickie Winans. Carpenter edited the gospel section of the All Music Guide (Miller-Freeman) and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, CCM, People magazine and Living Blues. He’s the author of the forthcoming book, Uncloudy Days: The Black Gospel Music Encyclopedia (Backbeat Books – SanFrancisco), in spring 2005.

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