Christian singer Christon Gray recently announced major news. The former Collision Records-artist has inked a record deal with Gospel music legend Kirk Franklin‘s Fo Yo Soul Recordings. Gray delivered the news on June 20 at Alive Fest in Mineral City, Ohio.

On June 22, Christon Gray dropped the full Kirk Franklin announcement video and behind-the-scenes information.

Via Christon Gray

MAN, THIS IS A BLOG POST I’VE BEEN WAITING A LONG TIME TO WRITE.

Let’s cut to the chase. If you haven’t heard yet, on Friday June 19th 2015, I had the privilege of signing a record deal with one of my musical heroes, Kirk Franklin.

For the last couple of months, Ron Hill, President of Fo Yo Soul/RCA (and one of the coolest and most professional dudes you’ll ever meet in this business) and Tom Drawer have been working to try and put a record deal together. In my heart FYS is where I wanted to be, but these things take time, and the Lord determines the steps.

Read Gray’s full blog post about the record deal HERE.

In 2014, Christon Gray released ‘School of Roses,’ which debuted at #5 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.

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