Lisa Knowles-Smith, Darrel Walls & More Win Big at 2026 Stellar Gospel Music Awards: Full Winners List

Lisa Knowles-Smith and Darrel Walls were the big winners at the 2026 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, which were taped live from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday (Aug.

15).

Gospel superstar Kirk Franklin hosted the show.

Knowles-Smith, 42, won five awards, four of them for the hit album Revival: Live in Dallas , which she recorded with The Brown Singers.

Knowles-Smith won the Albertina Walker female artist of the year award; duo/chorus/group of the year and quartet of the year alongside The Brown Singers; producer of the year in tandem with Frederick Perry; and song of the year for “Promises (Live),” which she wrote under her real name, Alescia Knowles-Smith.

The song reached No.

5 on Billboard ’s Hot Gospel Songs chart in June.

Walls, 35, won two awards: artist of the year and contemporary male artist of the year, both for Heart of Mine.

Vincent Bohanan & SOV won three awards, all for their album Live in New York : album of the year, choir of the year (in a tie with JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise), and contemporary choir of the year.

Other artists with two wins were Jonathan McReynolds , John P.

Kee , Jekalyn Carr and The Brown Singers.

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Kee for the most nominations this year (seven each), but she was not a winner on the night.