Princess Of Praise & Worship, Maurette Brown-Clark To Release "The Dream"

Jackson, MS. - Well respected song-writer (she co-wrote the theme song for HBO series The Wire) and affectionately referred to as the ‘Princess of Praise & Worship’ music, Maurette Brown-Clark (AIR Gospel) is set to release her third project March 6, 2007, entitled The Dream.

In 2004, Brown-Clark recorded The Dream “Live” in Baltimore to a packed house of over 2,000 people. Before the album was released, Malaco Music Group & Select-O-Hits acquired AIR Gospel, delaying the release of this deeply personal, much anticipated prize project of praise and worship music. The Dream is a smooth blend of gospel music styles promising to cross Gospel and Christian radio formats. Surprise guest on the CD is her six-year-old daughter Jasmine, singing “I Am What God Says I Am.”

Produced by Asaph Ward (Kim Burrell, Men of Standard, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Evelyn Turrentine Agee), this thirteen song CD features four original songs penned by Brown-Clark as well as the praise and worship number, “Lord We Praise Your Name,” by Richard Smallwood and a remake of the Donnie McClurkin & New York Restoration Choir classic, “We Worship You.” The music of many other award winning writers is included on this CD including Jonathan Nelson (“Healed,” Donald Lawrence).

Says Brown-Clark regarding her song selection and choice of songwriters, “I wrote some of the songs and then I went out to other artists and songwriters that I knew, loved, and who wrote my heart. They wrote as if they were up in my house living with me…hanging out with me. And so I feel like I literally wrote all of the songs.”

Brown-Clark, one of four musical children has been active in the business as singer, songwriter and producer for nearly three decades. Her professional career blossomed when Richard Smallwood put together his first choir. Brown-Clark accepted his invitation to join them and was noticed by labels as a solo artist when she co-led Smallwood’s classic, “Angels.”

After a brief stint with Verity records which resulted in the top ten Billboard hit and Stellar Award winner, How I Feel in 1998, she was signed to Atlanta International Records (AIR Gospel) resulting in another studio hit, By His Grace, released in 2002.