UNTOLD CHRONICLES MAGAZINE “The Truth Will Set You Free”
Tanty Freeman II Testimony of Success
“How my accident catypulted me into becoming an award winning Producer / Songwriter.”
Dr. Monique McMiller Church Hurt
...Months would pass before I discovered that she was attempting to use me and try dismember my life and faith”
August 2019 Issue 8
Robert M. “Bob” Marovich The Power of Gospel Music “I can say with certainty that gospel music brought me back to life.”
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Contents Cover Story 6 Dr. Nia
About the Author
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Features 8 “Testimony of Success”
By: Robert M. “Bob” Marovich
8 15 In the Kitchen
White Chocolate Bread Pudding By: Chef Andrea Dillion
15 16 “Church Hurt”
By: Dr. Monique McMiller
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Contents 25 Business Benefits Just Do It By: Omekia McNeal
25 28 “Testimony of Success” By: Tanty Freeman II
41 On The Road to Success
When the Days Get Long & the Sky Gets Cloudy By: Gerald B. Colson
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42 Prophetic Words for the Soul The Rain is Coming! By: Becky Porter
For Publication Inquiries Contact: Omekia McNeal Ph: 1 (561) 900-5079 Email: Belindagailmanagements@gmail.com Editor-in- Chief: Gerald B. Colson
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Robert M. “Bob” Marovich The Power of Gospel Music
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“I can say with certainty that gospel music brought me back to life.”
obert M. “Bob” Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. “Gospel Memories,” a radio program of classic gospel, spiritual, and jubilee music, airs on Chicago’s WLUWFM and throughout the week on Internet, low-power FM, and terrestrial radio stations. The radio program received a commendation from the African American Museum of Philadelphia and earned Bob a Gospel Image Award in 2017. It was named Best Gospel Radio Show of the Year by the Rhythm of Gospel Awards in 2018. Bob writes about classic and contemporary gospel music as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gospel Music (www.journalofgospelmusic.com). The website, formerly known as The Black Gospel Blog, was nominated for a Rhythm of Gospel Award in 2013 and 2018. He appears in the documentary How We Got Over and has been interviewed for several other radio and film documentaries, most recently WXPN’s Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul, which aired over more than 200 public radio stations in February 2019. Bob’s work has been published in the En-
cyclopedia of American Gospel Music (Routledge 2005), Encyclopedia of African American Music (Greenwood Publishing 2010), and in the ARSC Journal of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. His articles on Chicago choirmaster Professor J. Wesley Jones and country radio star Shelby Jean Davis were published in Chicago History. He authored the album notes for Sallie and Cora Martin: Just a Little Talk With Jesus (Gospel Friend 2014), The One-Derful! Collection: Halo Records (Secret Stash 2016), Moving Up: The Gospelaires of Dayton, Ohio (Gospel Friend 2017), and a various artists project, Jesus Rocked the Jukebox (Concord Music Group 2017). He contributes brief biographical sketches of gospel artists for the Malaco Records website and wrote the album notes for The Gospel According to Malaco (Malaco Music Group), released February 2019. His first book, A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music, was published in March 2015 by the University of Illinois Press as part of its Music in American Life Series. It received a 2016 Certificate of Merit in Historical Sound Recorded Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Untold Chronicles | 9
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Dr. Monique McMiller Church Hurt
“...Months would pass before I discovered that she was dismember my life and faith” Dr. McMiller was born in Bronx, New York, but spent many summers in Louisiana with her grandmother. Because of her grandmother’s strong influence on her life, Dr. McMiller was raised to respect and appreciate the importance and impact of education on her future. As such, Dr. McMiller has obtained numerous degrees, including an Associate of Arts in Communication, a Bachelor of Science in Culture Communication, a Master’s Degree in Education, as well as a Doctorate of Divinity. While accomplishing her educational goals, she pursued her passion for makeup and Property Management; having the honor to work with many celebrities as a MUA and building a leadership rapport in the Property Management sector. All while becoming an internationally accomplished author with 5 published books. Her accomplishments led her to be featured in Japan-based magazines, “Cool Girl”, in the article, “Teaching Women How to Seek Inner Beauty.” Because she has a passion for helping women, Dr. McMiller sought to impact young women lives during her tenure as the Educational Department Chair of Corinthians College. Her commitment to student achievement and student revenue earned her numerous awards, including
the Circle of Excellence award. Currently, Dr. McMiller is a Professional Life Coach. In conjunction with her being a Life Coach, Dr. McMiller has organized self-awareness and development projects; She is the creator of the, “For I am Woman” Conference. She is a member of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc, The American Heart Association and a domestic abuse survivor. Dr. McMiller continues to live a life that embodies love, joy, hope, compassion, and generosity. She believes that all women have the right to be successful and free of oppression. Although she ignored God’s ordained calling for an organization designed to lead and uplift women. However, on March 7, 2017, she gave birth to Sigma Tau Sigma Sorority, Incorporated in Lithonia, Georgia. She is committed to the power of God and sisterhood. Along with her beloved husband and nine other powerful women of God, Sigma Tau Sigma Sorority, Inc. was birthed and fortified with the mission to empower, equip, elevate, and educate. Dr. McMiller continues to live a life that embodies love, joy, hope, compassion, and generosity. She believes that all women have the right to be successful and free of oppression. Untold Chronicles | 17
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Tanty Freeman II Testimony of Success “How my accident catypulted me into becoming an award winning Producer / Songwriter.” Tanty Augusta (Gus) Freeman II was born to Tanty and Betty Freeman on May 7, 1984 in Wilmington, NC. He was raised in the small town of Bolton, North Carolina, west of Wilmington by about 30 miles. At the age of 7 he began taking piano lessons, which in turn enabled him to begin songwriting during these years. His style of writing was unconventional and yet extremely effective. Gus had a special gift of portraying emotions through storytelling that could identify with any reader. Within the next few years, at the age of 10, he played his first song on the drums. From that time on he has traveled to various places, using his gift of music to minister. During his middle school and high school years, he also became a member of the all-county chorus and band. Performing during the Celebration Of Arts along with surrounding schools. As time went on, Tanty (Gus) began to develop a unique sound in his playing that centered around worship and the more this sound developed through him, it became evident that he flowed prophetically in music. Tanty (Gus) began giving free music lessons to anyone that had an interest to play music within churches. Due to his passion of making sure that any church body in need had active musicians that played by the leading of the Holy Spirit. He began teaching musicians how to play prophetically, with the focal point being, teaching them that the gift of exhortation began and ends with God and that Jesus should always be the foundation. His approach of less is more, can be heard through his playing. By the age of 27,
he was elevated to the poisition of Minister of Music at his home church, Community Prayer House, of Bolton, NC, where his father Tanty Freeman is the Pastor. Shortly after stepping into this position, Tanty (Gus) was contacted about an opportunity to open at a concert for gospel recording artist Lucinda Moore. This experience of being on stage for the first time marked such a place of significance in his life, that it would perpetuate him to begin his new journey of recording at the age of 29. Over the next 4 years, every obstacle imaginable would spring up to divert his mission of recording and releasing his first song. However, the Holy Spirit would lead Tanty (Gus) on phase 2 of this journey by teaching him a new language on how to record, mix and master. Solely depending on His (the Holy Spirits) leading. On May 1, 2017 the recording process begins. Within a period of 8 months, on January 26, 2018, the song entitled “I Am” was completed and released to the public. During this time, Tanty (Gus) also founded his recording studio where his single “I Am” was recorded. Tanty (Gus) recently was nominated for Producer/Songwriter of the Year at the 4th Annual Steeple Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. While his Journey has only begun to move unhindered, his passion will always remain in equipping of the body of Christ by ultimately teaching to edify God through not only the gift of exhortation. The equipping is not just to be limited to the gift of exhortation (music) but in all ways. Untold Chronicles | 29
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