WILSON & S.O.P. CHORALE FIND PLEASURE IN
LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

Three-Time Stellar Award Nominees to Release Sophomore Project

Nashville, TN ­ Gospo Centric Records recording artist Natalie Wilson & The S.O.P. Chorale are defining the true pleasures of life on their sophomore release, The Good Life, which is set to release on October 21.  The album is the much-anticipated follow up to their 2000 debut release, Girl Director, for which they captured three 2002 Stellar Award nominations.

"I can see the Lord giving the group more discipline and focus ­ and a very clear direction since the first album ­ of who we are, where wešre going and what we are to do.  He has definitely refined us in that time, and wešve become more polished in the sharing of the gifts Hešs given us," says Wilson.

Natalie Wilson & The S.O.P.'s distinctive sound is instantly recognizable on The Good Life, but the new album showcases the maturity that the choir has developed over the past few years.  The Good Life still features live strings and horns, and the music still has a street, edgy, urban beat flowing through it.  But this time, there are more ballads and mid-tempo tunes included on the album and the vocals are tighter than theyšve ever been before.

"Therešs a gentler flow to this album," Wilson says of The Good Life.  "I think that comes from growth and change in the content of our hearts and character, and itšs very much reflected in the lyrics of our songs.  Each of the songs embraces one aspect or another of what, as Christians, we live and know as the good life."

Wilson became the director of The S.O.P. Chorale in 1992 after the devastating death of her brother, the director for the chorale at the time.  The choir, formed at the St. Paul Cathedral in Newark, New Jersey, is known for launching the career of Faith Evans, and the groupšs first independent album gained national popularity despite the lack of marketing and promotion.  Wilson, formally trained at a Church of God in Christ Bible school and an ordained minister in the national Sounds of Praise ministry, became the first woman to lead a nationally-known, major label gospel choir when she and the chorale signed with Gospo Centric Records in 2000.  Even with the growing success of the chorale, Wilson maintains the choiršs original mission, which is to show the young members of the choir a working, living faith in Christ.

Gospo Centric & B-Rite Music, owned by Vicki Mack Lataillade and her husband Claude, was founded by Ms. Mack Lataillade in 1993 with $6,000 she borrowed from her fatheršs postal pension.  In addition to Natalie Wilson & The S.O.P. Chorale, Gospo Centric & B-Rite Music artists include Platinum-selling GRAMMY winner Kirk Franklin, Stellar Award-winning Female Vocalist of the Year Dorinda Clark-Cole, Gold-selling Stellar Award winner Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, GRAMMY Award-winning gospel music legend Tramaine Hawkins, Gold-selling Stellar Award winner Trin-i-tee 5:7, six-time Stellar Award nominee Byron Cage, Reggae legend Papa San, GRAMMY Award-winning producer/recording artist Percy Bady and "American Idol" Wild Card R.J. Helton.