Greg Belson's Divine Disco Volume 2: Obscure Gospel Disco from 1979 to 1987Although gospel and disco music seem like polar oppositesone is secular while the other has embraced a hedonistic culturethe marriage of the two genres has birthed the uplifting spirituality and dance floor thump found in gospel disco. By the mid'70s many established and independent gospel artists started creating records with a tight fouronthefloor beat that touched both churchgoers as well as patrons of the drugfueled establishments of the '70s.