Houston Native Takes Top Honors At Season 8 of The Prayze Factor People's Choice Awards in Nassau

HOUSTON - April 28, 2016 - PRLog -- Season 8 of the Prayze Factor People's Choice Awards International took place April 22nd - 24th, 2016 at Bahamas Faith Ministries International Founded by Dr. Myles Munroe and it was a weekend filled with the glitz, glamour and celebration of some of the best inspired gospel artists in the world.  The International Music Association (T.I.M.A.) was honored to present Gospel Recording Artist, Shelia Moore Piper, with top honors as the grand finale' champion.

Shelia Moore Piper is an Anointed Woman of God who loves the Lord and with a record breaking 24,550,167 votes, she will represent her family, friends and community for the next year as she ministers across the globe as Prayze Factor's Season 8 Grand Champion. Her win has also yielded her over 15,000 in industry prizes and services from some of the top independent businesses i.e. The Indie Music Factory, The Prayzefest Gospel Network, The International Music Association (TIMA), Serious Distribution, Universal Music Group, Systechs Graphics, Tri-Satt Sounds Studios, Round The Clock Entertainment Group, All Nations TV, Truly Blessed Photography, Dreams Come True Travel, Triune Productions, PGN TV, WPGN Radio Atlanta, Living Day by Day Magazine, Centertainment Radio/TV, Laruth Photography and more...

Now as the season 8 Grand Champion of the Prayze Factor People's Choice Awards International Shelia Moore Piper is a full time ambassador of positive change and pure love in the gospel music industry...accepting and taking on the challenge of removing the word "indie" from the stamp of new artists which the movement now refers to as "inspired" artists up and coming in the gospel ranks and preparing to make a difference for generations to come.

The weekend of celebration also produced six other finalists on the platform representing various categories of performing arts ministry and yielded over all first place winner Holy Hip Hop artist "Music 4 Christ" (Dallas, TX), second place winners and youth ambassadors "Cleveland and Samuel Lynch" (Philadelphia, PA) and the MVP for season 8, Shunice Hill-Sullivan (Chicago, IL).  Spotlight artist for season 8 was announced as well and that honor went to The Mafuta Family (Kampala Uganda, Africa).  The music was phenomenal and the competition was very powerful as every performer brought their "A" game to the platform truly making it hard for the judges to score top honorees.

Season 8 of The Prayze Factor Awards International also honored International Gospel Artist Orlando Miller aka "Landlord" with it's trailblazer honors Legacy Award for his untiring service in the gospel music industry.  Kingdomaires Humanitarian Honorees for Season 8 of the Prayze Factor Awards went to Dr & Mrs. Myles Munroe (Nassau Bahamas) and Pastors Lavard and Radel Parks (Nassau Bahamas)

Prayze Factor's power prayze weekend was filled with great performances from artists all over the world to include great christian comedy, dance, traditional gospel, urban gospel, holy hip hop, christian pop/rock, and much more.

For full details on the Prayze Factor People's Choice Awards platform and all of the winners of season 8 please visit www.prayzefactorawards.com

The Prayze Factor People's Choice Awards National Independent Artists Tour is heading to a city near you June - Nov  2016.  Come on out and meet the super stars of today's inspriational/gospel performing arts movement...

For more information visit http://www.prayzefactorawards.com