Beloved worship trailblazers The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir have taken home the 2026 GRAMMY® Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for their StowTown Records set, I Will Not Be Moved: Live with The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. Marking the seventh Recording Academy honor for The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and the first-ever GRAMMY® win for StowTown Records, the award was presented during the 68th GRAMMY® Awards Premiere Ceremony, held earlier today in Los Angeles.
“We are deeply grateful to receive this GRAMMY® Award,” says Carol Cymbala, founding musical director of The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. “We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Recording Academy and all those who made this honor possible.”
“The entire team at StowTown Records is thrilled that the voting members of the Recording Academy have recognized this incredible project, giving the choir their seventh GRAMMY® Award win,” adds Landon Beene, president, StowTown Records/StowTown Worship Resource. “Working alongside Carol Cymbala and The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has been one of the greatest honors of my life.”
“Carol Cymbala could not be here tonight, but on behalf of her and the entire choir and everyone involved, we are so grateful to write songs, record songs, and get music out there that we pray will encourage you and will bring Hope to the world, in the name of Jesus,” shared I Will Not Be Moved: Live with The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir featured artist TaRanda Greene, who was on hand to accept the GRAMMY® for the group.
Produced by Cymbala along with J. Daniel Smith, I Will Not Be Moved: Live with The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir features seven worship favorites as well as three impassioned originals. The 2025 project spotlights guest turns from two-time Dove Award winners Babbie Mason and TaRanda Greene; Elevation Church’s Brad Hudson; and Dove Award-winning singer/songwriter Stephen McWhirter.
ABOUT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE CHOIR
Among the most revered and influential ensembles of all time, seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winner The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is a key architect of the modern worship movement. Since its inception almost 50 years ago, the iconic group has released more than 40 albums and garnered nine Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. Through the years, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir’s recordings have featured guest appearances from such acclaimed genre-spanning artists as Paul Baloche, Larnelle Harris, Israel Houghton, Alvin Slaughter, and Shane & Shane, among others.
Under the direction of founder Carol Cymbala, The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has proclaimed the Good News of the Gospel and its power to change lives on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including the 2012 inauguration of President Barack Obama, before an estimated worldwide viewing audience of more than a billion people; the 2023 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC; Carnegie Hall; Radio City Music Hall; the Madison Square Garden Theater; and two Billy Graham Crusades.
