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Essential Records (Christian)
Essential Records is a contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is a division of the major label Sony Music Nashville. History It was established in 1992 and acquired by Brentwood Music in 1993. The label's first big hit release was "Flood (Jars of Clay song), Flood" by Jars of Clay in 1996. The song was a hit on mainstream radio before hitting on Christian formats; it reached No. 12 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and appeared in the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Today it is part of the Sony Music Nashville, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Essential Worship Also, the label has an imprint named Essential Worship, which provides resources for worship leaders, and the deals are different than traditional ones. It is a record label that provides tools for musicians, and worship leaders. Sub*Lime Records sublabel Sub*Lime Records was a sub-label of Essential Records, via Brentwood Music a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Nashville
Sony Music Nashville is the country music branch of the Sony Music, Sony Music Group. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Sony Music Nashville includes its three country recording labels Arista Nashville, Columbia Records#Columbia Nashville, Columbia Nashville, and RCA Records Nashville, RCA Nashville, as well as Christian music company Provident Label Group, and independent music distribution company The Orchard (company), The Orchard. History Since 2015, Sony Music Nashville has been overseen by CEO Randy Goodman. In January 2011, Sony Music Nashville announced an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with Skyville Records, a new Nashville label headed up by music producer Paul Worley. In August 2011, Sony Music Nashville announced a restructuring that realigned several artists among its labels and merged the promotion teams for BNA Records and Columbia Nashville, while retaining the respective label identities for both BNA and Columbia artists and releases. In February 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Joe
Ruby Joe was a Christian band from Ventura, California. Their debut album was cited as psychobilly, but their second played squarely as swing revival due to the appearance of the horn section of Royal Crown Revue. Both were released on Sub•Lime Records, in 1998 and 1999. The bands' name is a combination of the founder's name and that of Ruby's Diner in Huntington Beach, where the band was formed. Background Prior to Ruby Joe, Greg Russinger and Joe Baugh played in a band called Strugglefish. Russinger was a youth pastor at Horizon Foursquare Church, Ventura, CA. In 1996 the band gained the bass talents of Amber Reeves and the drumming of Christina Hock, forming an all-female rhythm section. Ruby Joe's debut release, ''Sinking the Eight Ball'' (1998), drew upon the production talents of Mike Knott and Gene Eugene. The band's sound wound up being somewhere between the Stray Cats and The Reverend Horton Heat, or "like a rockabilly version of Mike Knott..." Russinger wrote most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tauren Wells
Tauren Gabriel Wells (born April 7, 1986) is an American Contemporary Christian music singer and pastor from Houston, Texas. Wells was the frontman of former Christian band Royal Tailor. After the group's disbandment in 2015, he released ''Undefeated EP'' in 2016, followed by his first studio album ''Hills and Valleys'', released in June 2017. The album and its lead single " Hills and Valleys" received nominations at the 60th Grammy Awards in 2018. Its fifth single " Known" topped the ''Billboard'' Christian Airplay chart and was nominated for Top Christian Song at the 2019 ''Billboard'' Music Awards. Wells' second studio album '' Citizen of Heaven'' was released in January 2020. The album and one of its singles, " Famous For (I Believe)" – his third Christian Airplay No. 1 – were nominated at the 63rd Grammy Awards in 2021. His third album ''Joy in the Morning'' was released in June 2022, followed by his second EP ''Take It All Back'' in 2023. In 2024, Wells became a lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seph Schlueter
Joseph "Seph" Schlueter (born December 18, 1999) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and a leader of the ''Damascus Worship'' community, an American Catholic missionary movement based in Columbus, Ohio. In early 2023, he was signed to a deal by Provident Music Group. His song " Counting My Blessings" was No. 1 on both the ''Billboard'' Christian Airplay and Christian Adult Contemporary Airplay charts, in addition to being No. 2 on the Hot Christian Songs Hot Christian Songs is a music chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It ranks the popularity of Christian songs using the same methodology developed for the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, the magazine's flagship songs c ... chart. His song "Running Back to You" went to No. 8 on the Hot Christian Songs chart. In December on the ''Billboard'' Year-End charts, he was the second best new Christian artist of 2024 and listed as the No. 7 Hot Christian Songs artist, the No. 2 Christian Airplay s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhett Walker Band
Rhett Walker Band is a Southern rock and Christian rock band from Nashville. The band released their debut studio album under the Essential Records label on July 10, 2012 called '' Come to the River.'' The band's debut single, " When Mercy Found Me", achieved placement on Christian music charts. Rhett Walker Band announced they were discontinuing in 2016. In 2017, Walker re-signed with Essential Records. Background Rhett Walker Band frontman Rhett Walker is a preacher's kid from Aiken, South Carolina. The band formed in 2011 and consisted of Rhett Walker as well as Kenny Davis who played drums, the guitarist Joe Kane, and bassist Kevin Whitsett. The band released their debut single " When Mercy Found Me" on April 23, 2012, and reached No.5 on the Christian AC Indicator & AC Monitored chart September 2012. This song was written by Rhett Walker and Jeff Pardo. "When Mercy Found Me" was nominated for a Grammy on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 for Best Contemporary Christian Music Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Sonic Society
One Sonic Society was a contemporary worship music collective from around the globe. The collective was composed of songwriter Jason Ingram on vocals, guitar and piano, Delirious? lead guitarist Stuart Garrard on guitar and vocals, Hillsong UNITED drummer Paul Mabury on drums and programming, Jonathan Thatcher bass guitarist from Delirious? on bass and synths. The Christian music collective released their debut studio album under the Essential Records label on 28 February 2012 called '' Forever Reign''. Their single " Forever Reign" was put in rotation during 2011 by many US radio stations. Background Jason Ingram Jason David Ingram is an American Christian music producer and songwriter. He has been a songwriter for many Christian artists, including Bebo Norman and Point of Grace. Career Around the end of 2001, he was the first artist to be signed to ..., Stuart Garrard, Paul Mabury and Jonathan Thatcher formed the Christian Music collective in 2009. The band was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew West
Matthew Joseph West (born April 25, 1977) is an American contemporary Christian musician and singer-songwriter. He has released five studio albums and is known for his songs "More (Matthew West song), More", "You Are Everything (Matthew West song), You Are Everything", and "The Motions (song), The Motions". He was nominated for five GMA Dove Award, Dove Awards in 2005, two of which were for his major-label debut album, ''Happy (Matthew West album), Happy''. West won the 2013 American Music Award for Best Contemporary Inspirational Artist. Starting as an independent musician in the late 1990s, he released three independent albums before signing with Universal South Records. With the release of his Dove Award-winning debut album, ''Happy'', released in 2003, his first radio single, "More", stayed at No. 1 on Christian Adult Contemporary charts for nine weeks and received two Dove Award nominations. His second album, ''History (Matthew West album), History'', was followed by a 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Maher
Matthew Guion Maher (born November 10, 1974) is a Canadian Catholic contemporary Christian music artist, songwriter, and worship leader based in the United States. Three of his nine albums have reached the Christian Albums, Top 25 Christian Albums Billboard charts, ''Billboard'' chart and four of his singles have reached the Hot Christian Songs, Top 25 Christian Songs chart. His notable writing credits include "Your Grace Is Enough", "I Will Rise", "Because He Lives (Amen)", "Christ Is Risen", and "Lord I Need You". Maher has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards in his career and was awarded the Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year, Songwriter of the Year at the 2015 GMA Dove Awards. Early life Maher was born and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. His parents recognized his musical talent, and he grew up taking piano lessons and immersing himself in a broad variety of music and playing in concert and jazz ensembles, singing in a choir, and playing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanna Crawford
Leanna Crawford (born June 13, 1995) is an American contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter signed to Provident Label Group. Background Leanna Crawford grew up in Stanwood, Washington. Crawford was home-schooled by her mom, a former teacher, along with her two sisters and brother and received her music business degree from Northwest University (United States), Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington. In 2012, Crawford went on a mission trip, where she felt God spoke to her, calling her into music ministry. In 2013 Crawford won Praise106.5's Music Search with her song, "Moment by Moment", produced by Dove Award-winning producer, Ed Cash. Career Soon after moving to Nashville, Crawford was signed as the first female artist to Story House Collective's roster by Grammy Nominated & Dove Award winner Matthew West. She has since toured with notable artists such as Michael W. Smith, Matthew West, Jeremy Camp, Tenth Avenue North, Matt Maher, Plumb & Jordan Feliz. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KB (rapper)
Kevin Elijah Burgess (born July 21, 1988), better known by his stage name KB, is an American Christian hip hop artist and music executive from St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the leader of the hip-hop group HGA (''His Glory Alone''). Burgess signed a solo artist contract with Reach Records in 2010. The label has released several projects, including the ''Who Is KB?'' mixtape in 2011, '' Weight & Glory'', on July 17, 2012, ''100'' EP on March 4, 2014, '' Tomorrow We Live'' on April 21, 2015, and '' Today We Rebel'' on October 20, 2017. He is also a member of the label's collective formerly 116 clique shortened to 116. He left Reach Records in 2020 and signed with Essential Sound, releasing his fourth studio album, ''His Glory Alone'' in 2020 as well as its sequel ''His Glory Alone II'' in 2023. Biography Early life Kevin Elijah Burgess was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, on July 21, 1988, into a military family. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Southern Illinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Kimmett
Jamie Kimmett is a Christian music singer-songwriter signed to Provident Label Group under Sony. Career Jamie Kimmett was born in Scotland. He grew up listening to artists like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and John Mayer. While studying to be a pastor in the UK, Kimmett decided to head to Nashville to pursue a Christian music career. Within a few weeks he was signed to Provident Label Group. Kimmett has since toured with artists including Zach Williams, Matt Maher, Casting Crowns, and For King & Country. He co-wrote four songs with Toto's Steve Porcaro on his 2016 solo album '' Someday/Somehow'', performing on the tracks "She's So Shy" and "Face of a Girl". He released his debut single, "Prize Worth Fighting For" on 14 December 2018. The song became his first ''Billboard'' charting song, reaching #10 on Christian Airplay Christian Airplay is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States since June 21, 2003. This chart lists the 50 most-listen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns is a contemporary Christian and Christian rock band which began in Daytona Beach, Florida. The band was formed in 1999 by lead vocalist Mark Hall. They moved to Stockbridge, Georgia, and more members joined. Some members of the band are currently ministers for Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Georgia. The band has won a Grammy and a Dove Award. Mark has been quoted as saying “My life purpose is to give God glory through everything I do. If my life does not worship Him, my songs don't either.” This quote encapsulates the band's emphasis on living a life that reflects their faith, not just through music but in every action. History Early years, initial success, and early history Casting Crowns was formed in 1999 at First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach. Led by Mark Hall, singer-songwriter and youth pastor, the group initially included guitarists Juan DeVevo and Hector Cervantes, violinist Melodee DeVevo, and drummer Rob Cervantes. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
