Joshua Nelson (singer)

Joshua Nelson is Black and Jewish and he goes by the nickname “the prince of kosher gospel,”[1] and he has called himself "the KKK's worst nightmare."

[3] He also serves as director of music at Hopewell Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, which is housed in the building of a former synagogue (the former B’nai Jeshurun).

[4] Nelson has performed with musical legends including Wynton Marsalis and Aretha Franklin and Stephanie Mills and Billy Preston, as well as gospel singers Albertina Walker, the Barrett Sisters, Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, Dottie Peoples, Dorothy Norwood, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Timothy Wright, Carlton Pearson, and Bobby Jones & New Life.

Internationally it aired on the national networks of Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Israel, and Italy in 2003 and 2004.

Nelson's TV credits include “A+ for Kids” on WWOR-TV; “SingSation,” a Gospel program taped in Chicago and broadcast nationally on CBS-TV (1995–97, 2005); and Black Entertainment Television's The Bobby Jones Gospel Hour (1995–2003).