{"id":288,"date":"2008-10-16T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/10\/southern-gospels-diamond-award.html"},"modified":"2008-10-16T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:30:57","slug":"southern-gospels-diamond-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/10\/southern-gospels-diamond-award.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Gospel&#8217;s Diamond Award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LuluRoman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/LuLuRoman.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"312\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>The 2008 Diamond Awards were handed out last month, during the week of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/09\/national-quartet-convention-ki.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Quartet Convention<\/a>. The Isaacs, Karen Peck &amp; New River, Amazed, HisSong, The Georgians, Hearts of Faith, and more performed during the awards program.<br \/>\nWinners included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lulu Roma, J.D. Sumner Living Legend Award (pictured)<\/li>\n<li>The Isaacs, Group of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Booth Brothers, Trio of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Jeff and Sheri Easter, Duet of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Guy Penrod (Gaither Vocal Band), Male Vocalist of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Sonya Isaacs (The Isaacs), Female Vocalist of the Year<\/li>\n<li>Bill Gaither, Songwriter of the Year <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a complete list of winners, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamondawardsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.diamondawardsonline.com.<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>RELATED POST<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/09\/gospel-music-channel-adds-gosp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Music Channel adds Gospel music to line up (Southern Gospel, that is)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 Diamond Awards were handed out last month, during the week of the National Quartet Convention. The Isaacs, Karen Peck &amp; New River, Amazed, HisSong, The Georgians, Hearts of Faith, and more performed during the awards program. Winners included: Lulu Roma, J.D. Sumner Living Legend Award (pictured) The Isaacs, Group of the Year Booth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-music-awards","category-southern-gospel-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Southern Gospel&#039;s Diamond Award winners - Gospel Soundcheck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/10\/southern-gospels-diamond-award.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Southern Gospel&#039;s Diamond Award winners - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2008 Diamond Awards were handed out last month, during the week of the National Quartet Convention. 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