Earnest Pugh is back with a new single ‘Survived‘, released last Tuesday, September 12 2017.
The song is dedicated to the city of Houston who are currently trying to pick up the pieces of what is left in their homes after being struck by Hurricane Harvey August 25th 2017.
The Stellar award winner took to Instagram to share the new release.
“The title track “Survive” is officially available for download everywhere music is sold now! Survive – Single by Earnest Pugh
“SURVIVE” the second single from my forthcoming new project is available everywhere TODAY! Support your brother! #EarnestPugh”
“Anybody ever felt like this? Guess what? You Survived! #EarnestPugh#Survive #encouragement #power#inspiration“
ABOUT EARNEST PUGH
Earnest Pugh is an American Gospel singer-songwriter. After seeking recording contracts from major gospel record labels and being rejected, Pugh decided to launch his own label in 2006.
His first album, Earnest Pugh Live: A Worshipper’s Perspective, was released via a distribution agreement with Detroit’s Crystal Rose Records label.
The radio single Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up rose to the Top 40 on the now defunct Radio & Records gospel radio chart and lay the foundation for his career.
He followed up the next year with a CD entitled, Seasons Change, that failed to chart. In 2007, his album, A Worshiper’s Perspective, won Best Gospel Album at the 6th Annual Independent Music Awards.
A chance meeting with Blacksmoke Worldwide Gospel Records founder, Kerry Douglas, whom had taken James Fortune & FIYA and Keith Wonder Boy Johnson to the top of the gospel charts, would be pivotal to Pugh’s evolution as a national artist.
“He [Douglas] told me back in 2008 that he could take my single Rain on Us to number one and he did just that in less than eight weeks,” Pugh told the Miami Times.[4]
The dramatic ballad spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart in 2009. The CD, Live: Rain on Us, also featured the Top-40 gospel radio hits Perfect Peace and The Great I Am.
In the early summer of 2011, Pugh delivered another CD titled Earnestly Yours. Douglas had Pugh re-record James Fortune’s track, I Need Your Glory. The song shot to the Top Ten in a few weeks and stayed on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart for ten weeks.
The song and the CD earned Pugh extensive media coverage. “Pugh is a pointed and slick singer (and dresser), and for most of this strong album he provides a solid center while his backup choir sings in hushed and reverent tones”, Jon Carmanica wrote in The New York Times.
In January 2012, Pugh announced that his EPM Music label had formed a distribution agreement with Entertainment One Distribution and would soon be signing a variety of high-profile gospel artists to record under his label banner.[8]
