Singer and songwriter Jeremy Camp's two daughters Bella (11) and Aerie (9) have released their debut single - a Christmas song penned by then 10-year-old Bella. The song "Behold" is available now at iTunes. The single is also going to radio for Christmas airplay.
T. Graham Brown celebrates a few firsts this year in 2015. Despite having recorded 14 albums, scored 3 #1 hits, 8 Top 10 hits, and more than 20 charted singles, 2015 marks the first time ever Brown received a Grammy Award nomination. Earlier in year, Brown was nominated for Grammy's Best Gospel Roots album for his Gospel project "Forever Changed."
Two years ago, worship leader Darlene Zschech was disgnosed with breast cancer. Darlene Zschech is the songwriter of the popular worship song "Shout to the Lord," and for many years, she was the worship pastor of Hillsong Church. Zschech was the one that spearheaded the worship team and brought their songs (such as "Mighty to Save," "Hosanna," "Worthy is the Lamb") to an international level. Today over 30 million people across the globe sing Zschech's "Shout to the Lord" in countless numbers of languages.
Despite having Stage IV cervical cancer, Joey Feek is still not giving up. In fact, she and her husband Rory are planning to release their hymns album "Hymns That Are Important To Us" on Valentine's Day. Meanwhile, the Feeks are preparing for Christmas.
When Rhonda Vincent recorded her first Christmas album nine years ago, she approached it like a she was on the ice skating ring for the first time. She sold her "bluegrass" soul and ditch her regular band in favour of making an album that tries to imitate the classic Christmas sounds of Frank Sinatra and Bing Cosby. But that was not enough.
Stu G (founding member of Delirious? and One Sonic Society, as well as current touring guitarist for Michael W. Smith) will independently release Have You Heard 2015 on Stugiology Music Dec. 18 through The Fuel Music distribution. First recorded in 1995, this completely remastered, 20th anniversary edition of the album pre-dates Stu's work with Delirious? and features every member of the original Delirious? lineup. It also includes three newly recorded songs. We are so honored to catch up with him for this exclusive interview.
Pop superstar Justin Bieber has just released his new album Purpose on November 13, 2015, by Def Jam Recordings. The album was preceded by the release of the worldwide number one lead single "What Do You Mean?" and the record-breaking second single "Sorry."
CCM's songwriter and singer Matthew West has just released his new single "Grace Wins." He has also released the official video for "Grace Wins" with Aplus.com. This is a first-time partnership with APlus.com, a leading technology-based media company focused on delivering positive journalism and being a voice of good in the world. "Grace Wins" is the second single from West's No. 1 album, Live Forever, and the song is currently No. 8 at radio on the National Audience Chart and climbing.
Singer and songwriter Jessa Anderson has teamed up with her husband Jordan to release a free Christmas single, titled "O Son of God, We Wait for Thee." The two, known as Jordan & Jessa plan on releasing more music together in the near future.
Christian hip hop singer and songwriter Dre Murray has just released his sophmore album entitled 34. 34 is Murray's second full-length effort in 2015. In April, he and label mate Alex Faith dropped a collaborative LP, Southern Lights: Overexposed, which peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart. Collision also released the project as a visual album.
Curt Anderson will be releasing his Dream Records debut Every Moment on January 15th. Preceding the album is the lead single "Keep It Beating." The song, which is currently being heard on Hot AC / CHR radio, is a fun-filled inspirational song about hope.
Though Steven Curtis Chapman has received fifty-eight Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, five GRAMMYs®, forty-eight #1 singles, has sold nearly eleven million albums, and has eight RIAA-certified gold or platinum albums, he has never released a fill length worship album. On March 4, 2016, all of this will changed, Chapman will release his first worship album, etitled Worship and Believe.
One of the major criticisms of today's Christian music is that it creates a gauze between the songs' messages and the listener. Often many Christian songs are so aloof and trite that they do not connect with the struggles and insecurities of our daily lives. Pad answers, recycled platitudes, and unthoughtful aphorisms are some of the culpable culprits that have blurred the realism of these songs. Wilburn and Wilburn are wise enough to avoid these pitfalls when it comes to the duo's third album for Daywind Records, "Shoulders."
As 2015 winds to a close within the next few weeks, let's take a look at the worship albums released this week. Based on the worship albums we have reviewed this year, we have pick up our Top 10. We have included an excerpt of our review and a link to each review.
December 2015 marks a pertinent milestone for the Talleys. Exactly twenty years ago this month, the family team first took the plunge of faith by investing their lives in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through their music. Over these twenty years, they have spiritually enriched our lives with such Gospel-saturated tunes such as "Jesus Saves," "His Life for Mine," "The Debt," "The Answer is Christ" and so many others.
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