Le'Andria Johnson - Better Days - Celebration of Gospel - 2016

Le'Andria Delores Johnson (born January 23, 1983) is an American gospel musician and singer-songwriter. She was the season three winner of the BET gospel singing competition show Sunday Best.
Johnson had many good performances on the show, though at times the judges and mentor Kim Burrell sensed a hesitation in her, as if there was something on her mind, that she just couldn't quite shake off. On the eighth episode, in a conversation that made the air, Johnson told Burrell that at one point she chose death over life in a "mentor moment," sponsored by Nationwide Insurance.[13]

In a private conversation while being mentored Johnson told mentor Kim Burrell that there was a time that she thought she could not go on in this life, but in that moment God kept her "in the midst of it all,"[14] which was the primary reason she chose to sing the song on episode four of the season.Gospel singer Kim Burell has created a whirlwind of media attention and it isn’t positive. During a live performance, Kim Burrell praised Le’andria Johnson while simultaneously throwing shade at Fantasia. This created online drama that has not been without notice. Not only did the comments stir up strife and contention, but Fantasia later responded to them while she was performing. Social media continues to weigh in on the debate with many people choosing to stand up for Fantasia and against Burrell.
First, if you haven’t seen the video of Kim Burrell making the comments you can watch it in the video player below. Essentially, Kim Burrell was saying that if they want to turn Aretha Franklin’s life into a movie, they should have Le’andria Johnson sing in it rather than Fantasia. Fantasia was one of the vocalists at Aretha Franklin’s public memorial service.

The diss was to say that Fantasia doesn’t sing as well as Le’andria. It’s also unclear if any offers have been made to Fantasia to portray Aretha Franklin in a movie. There are reports that Jennifer Hudson will portray Aretha in the MGM movie Respect directed by Liesl Tommy and written by Thelma and Louise’s Callie Khouri.Fantasia really opened up about her life, and how hard she has had it with people judging her. This is one argument where people are clearly siding with Fantasia and are even responding positively to the way she handled the remarks.

Fantasia delivered a heartfelt message that nearly bordered a sermon as she encouraged people to show God’s love to those who are down and live their lives to lift people up instead of tearing one another down.

Many have said that the fact this is is all playing out in the arena of Gospel music is a shame.