Spirit was an urban contemporary gospel

Urban contemporary gospel

Traditional black gospel is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

 music channel on XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

. XM described the channel as "Taking It To The Highest". The channel was originally launched and programmed by Radio One, Inc., but was later programmed in-house by XM.

Artists featured on the channel included Kirk Franklin

Kirk Franklin

Kirk Dwayne Franklin is an American Gospel music musician, choir director, and author, and is most notably known for leading urban contemporary gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One Nation Crew .- Early years :...

 , Yolanda Adams

Yolanda Adams

Yolanda Adams is an American Grammy- and Dove-award-winning Yolanda Adams is an American [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]]- and [[Dove Awards|Dove]]-award-winning...

 , Fred Hammond

Fred Hammond

Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer.-Musical career:Hammond has been active both as a member of the gospel performing group Commissioned, and as a solo artist...

 , Tye Tribbett, The Kurt Carr Singers

Kurt Carr

Kurt Carr is an American gospel music composer and performer. While living in the city of Hartford, Connecticut he served as Minister of Music at The First Baptist Church of Hartford located at the time on Greenfield Street...

, Angela Spivey, and The Colorado Mass Choir

Colorado Mass Choir

The Colorado Mass Choir is an American gospel choir.The group's lead vocalist is Joe Pace. They released their first album in 1997, and won a Stellar Award for New Artist of the Year. Several releases on Verity Records followed.-Discography:...

. The channel aired on XM channel 33 and on DirectTV Channel 827.

The channel was added to the XM lineup on February 1, 2004 with an entirely new theme. Prior to that Spirit was on XM channel 63. The channel (along with the Sirius version

Spirit (Sirius)

Spirit was a Contemporary Christian music radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 66 and DISH Network channel 6066.On November 12, 2008, Spirit was eliminated from the Sirius lineup and has been replaced with XM's The Message as part of a restructuring by Sirius XM Radio.-Confusion With The...

, which was a different format) was scrapped on November 12, 2008 as part of the Sirius-XM merger. It was replaced with Sirius's

Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...

 similar channel, Praise.