 Soon other gospel artists, including Kristle Murden, The Archers, The Winans, Walter Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, and Bob Bailey joined the roster.For a time, Light was also home to Contemporary Christian artists such as Sweet Comfort Band, Reba Rambo-McGuire, Jamie Owens and Carman, Paul Porter.Carmichael bought out Word's portion of Light/Lexicon in 1980 after ABC/CapCities had purchased Word in 1974.