I've discovered the Gospel University Choir (GUC) in 2002 thanks to a friend of mine (Fuongy) that propose me to test one of their rehearsals. The GUC is a Gospel choir that have its rehearsals in a University of Montpellier, the "Université Paul Valéry" or "Université Montpellier III". It had been created and directed by a Cameroun guy: Martin KOUMS. The GUC is composed of 100 chorists that are students and non-students from differents ages and differents origins.

I decided to created a website for this choir at the end of 2005. I used Xoops CMS for the engine and a template from Kit-Graphik.com. The main purpose of this website is to give to the chorists and solists a place where to find lyrics and music for them to listen and practise at home or anywhere. It is also a place where they can view all pictures I've made of differents concerts of us and others. A kinda "souvenir".

The www.guc-gospel.info website uses 2 of my Xoops module: the SnX_Guestbook and SnX_Lyrics. The Guestbook has been modified to integrate a Baysian Filter to detect spam in posts. The Lyrics manager was a way to ease the submition of new lyrics and media documents for the chorists

This website also required some works to get it well referenced on Google and other search engines.

Here is a sample video clip from the DVD of our concert in the Don Bosco Church in Montpellier on April 2006:

Here is a recording from the same concert (speech & 2nd solist: Quoc-Huy, 1st solist: André): 

Click on the following link to visite the website:  Gospel University Choir