“Love Is Alive” comes from Osborne’s “Righteous Love” album, which was released last year. The album came nearly four years after the release of Osborne's three million-selling Mercury Records debut, "Relish."

In comparison to “Relish” the sales of “Righteous Love” (Interscope) have been disappointing: it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 90 on Sept. 30 and dropped off the chart after just four weeks.

Osborne produced the Holmes Brothers' “Speaking in Tongues” (Alligator), released earlier this year. She became a fan of the veteran gospel/R&B trio after attending its New York club performances, where she would occasionally take the stage to harmonize with the trio.

At the same time that she released “Righteous Love,” Osborne launched an Internet publication called Heroine Magazine. “Magazines about women have some great articles in them, but those articles are surrounded by words and images that reduce women to their bodies, their wardrobe, their spending habits,” Osborne wrote in a message to Heroine readers. “I wanted a place to go to find my heroines straight up.”