After more than 30 years of performing and recording, one of urban
contemporary/gospel/r&b legends - THE RANCE ALLEN GROUP releases
another album “Closest Friend” Tuesday, May 22, 2007.

The Tyscot Records CD comes on the heals of “The Live Experience”
CD/DVD featuring the hit duet with Kirk Franklin - “Something About The
Name Of Jesus” and garnering two Stellar Awards.

Rance Allen and his brothers, Thomas and Steve, are three of a dozen
children from a church-active family that nearly filled the small
Goodwill Church of God In Christ (COGIC) the family attended.

Fans will be hard-pressed to fit the lead single/title track
“Closest Friend” into any particular category. It encompasses urban
contemporary, quartet gospel, contemporary gospel and more. The entire
album has already been defined as “classic heart & soul” that fills
the heart and touches the soul; also strikes a chord among listeners of
all ages. A special international TV special is in the works for them
to star in a one-hour show on The Gospel Music Channel and a couple of
performances on TBN this month.

Having performed on many national TV shows as “Bobby Jones Gospel”,
“Arsenio Hall Show”, the classic movie “Wattstax” and on some of the
biggest stages in the world, RAG (Rance Allen Group) has seen it all.
Now as they gear up to let the world hear “Closest Friend”, they are
embarking on a concert stint in Ireland and other countries in Europe
and special performances in the United States including the upcoming
“Bobby Jones Gospel”, “Gospel Superfest” and more. The single is steady
climbing up the R&R (Records and Radio) charts and consistently
gaining more radio airplay daily.

RAG can reach all the way back to the 1960s as their humble
beginnings as young lads listening to Motown songs, Mahalia Jackson,
the Mighty Clouds of Joy, James Cleveland, etc. They took the tunes of
the Temptations, Aretha Franklin, James Brown and Dionne Warwick,
rearranged the words and gave it back its roots. “It was a new Gospel
style and the young people loved it,” says Rance.

A ground-breaking 24-hour album release party is being planned for
all fans to enjoy The Rance Allen Group by getting and ear full and eye
full over the internet. More details to follow. Tuesday, May 22nd, all
can have their very own “Closest Friend” CD from the Rance Allen Group!