Greg Belson's Divine Disco Volume 2: Obscure Gospel Disco (1979-1987) (LP) GZA three years after the Leaders

three years after the Leaders of the New School unofficially disbanded

alongside album ballads like “Winter Meeting” and “Ballad (For My Love)

A3 Knowledge God

and Maceo Parker

Eddie Griffin

Greg Belson's Divine Disco Volume 2: Obscure Gospel Disco (1979-1987) (LP) GZA three years after the LeadersAlthough gospel and disco music seem like polar oppositesone is secular while the other has embraced a hedonistic culturethe marriage of the two genres has birthed the uplifting spirituality and dance floor thump found in gospel disco. By the mid '70s many established and independent gospel artists started creating records with a tight four on the floor beat that touched both churchgoers as well as patrons of the drug fueled establishments of the