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Dove Awards Of 1996
The 29th Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 25, 1996 to recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 1995. The show was held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Michael W. Smith. Award recipients Artists *Artist of the Year **dc Talk *New Artist of the Year **Jars of Clay *Group of the Year **Point of Grace *Male Vocalist of the Year **Gary Chapman (musician), Gary Chapman *Female Vocalist of the Year **CeCe Winans *Songwriter of the Year **Michael W. Smith *Producer of the Year **Charlie Peacock Songs *Song of the Year **“Jesus Freak (song), Jesus Freak”; Toby McKeehan, Mark Heimermann *Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the Year **"R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth)"; ''R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth)''; Carman (singer), Carman (TIE) **"Take Back the Beat"; ''Church of Rhythm''; Church of Rhythm (TIE) *Rock Recorded Song of the Year **"Jesus Freak"; ''Jesus Freak (album), Jesus Freak''; dc Talk *Pop/Contemporary Record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Ole Opry House
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a division of Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, Americana, folk, and gospel music as well as comedic performances and skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and internet listeners. In the 1930s, the show began hiring professionals and expanded to four hours. Broadcasting by then at 50,000 watts, WSM made the program a Saturday night musical tradition in nearly 30 states. In 1939, it debuted nationally on NBC Radio. The Opry moved to a permanent home, the Ryman Audit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Whole Truth (Point Of Grace Album)
''The Whole Truth'' is the second album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace. It was released in 1995 by Word Records with selected market distribution by Epic Records. Background and release ''The Whole Truth'' followed the group's debut album, which had produced six #1 singles. As a result, Word Records' promotion department felt intimidated by the prospect of its first single, "The Great Divide." The lyrics of "The Great Divide," as recorded, were the result of a happy mistake: the line "There's a bridge to cross the great divide" was meant to be repeated, but a typo rendered the second instance as "There's a cross to bridge the great divide." On December 9, 1995, the album charted on ''Billboards Top Christian Albums at #8 and on the ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 132. Each of the album's five singles, released between March 1995 and April 1996 reached #1 on the Christian songs chart, continuing what would become the group's historic run of 24 consecutive #1's on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandi Patty
Sandra Faye "Sandi" Patty (born July 12, 1956) is an American Christian music singer, known for her wide soprano vocal range and expressive flexibility. Biography Early life Patty was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, into a family of musicians; her father was a minister of music, and her mother served as the church pianist. She first performed at the age of two when she sang " Jesus Loves Me" for her church, Phoenix First Church of God. First growing up in Phoenix, then San Diego, she and her brothers joined their parents in a performing group known as "The Ron Patty Family", and sang at churches nationwide during summer holidays. After graduating from Crawford High School in San Diego, she attended San Diego State University and Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, where she studied voice with soprano Greta Dominic, but graduated with an emphasis in conducting. While studying at Anderson University, she worked as a studio musician for area recording studios, singi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Grant
Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She began in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before crossing over to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop". she had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and her album was the first Christian album to go platinum. She was honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for her contributions to the entertainment industry and in 2022, she was announced as a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. Grant made her debut in her 20s gaining fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as "Father's Eyes", " El Shaddai", and " Angels". In the mid-1980s, she began broadening her audience and soon became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums '' Unguarded'' and '' Lead Me On''. In 1986, she scored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Caesar
Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams (born October 13, 1938), known professionally as Shirley Caesar, is an American gospel singer whose career has spanned seven decades. She has won 11 Grammys in addition to Dove Awards and Stellar Awards; Caesar is known as the "First Lady of Gospel Music" and "The Queen of Gospel Music". She began recording with Federal Records at the age of 12 in 1951. Caesar has released over forty albums. She has participated in over 16 compilations and three gospel musicals, ''Mama I Want to Sing'', ''Sing: Mama 2'' and ''Born to sing: Mama 3''. She is also the creator of the #unameit challenge, which occurred during one of her song sermonettes. Caesar's credits also include a series of commercials for MCI Communications and numerous awards for her recordings. She has won 11 Grammy Awards (including The Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award), 14 Stellar Awards, 15 Dove Awards, 1 RIAA gold certification, an Essence Award, McDonald's Golden Circle Lifetime Achieveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelo & Veronica
Angelo & Veronica Petrucci are an American urban contemporary gospel music husband and wife duo who began their recording careers in 1992, originated from Boston, Massachusetts. Until 2024, the duo released ten albums; two of those albums charted on the US ''Billboard'' Christian Albums chart. They also earned three GMA Dove Awards for their work. Background The duo has its origins in Boston, Massachusetts. Angelo Petrucci Jr., who is of Italian ancestry, was born into a musical family. Petrucci's father played guitar professionally and his mother was a pianist. When Petrucci's father became ill and could no longer perform, at the age of 13 Petrucci began performing professionally. When Petrucci's parents became Christians, they slowly influenced him with Commissioned's "Running Back to You". Petrucci, while attending the Berklee College of Music, began performing secular music and he continued performing as a secular music artist for ten years. Veronica Beth Torres, who hails from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixpence None The Richer
Sixpence None the Richer (also known as Sixpence) is an American Christian alternative rock band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, and eventually settled in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs " Kiss Me" and " Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and " There She Goes". The name of the band is inspired by a passage from the book ''Mere Christianity'' by C. S. Lewis. The band received two Grammy Award nominations, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Kiss Me" and Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album for ''Sixpence None the Richer'' (1997). History Origin of the band's name Vocalist Leigh Nash described the origin of the band's name on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'': Formation and early years (1992–1996) Guitarist/songwriter Matt Slocum met Leigh Nash in the early 1990s. They recorded a demo, which circulates as "The Original Demos", with bassist T.J. Behling at Verge Music Works recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Beautiful Mess
''This Beautiful Mess'' is the second studio album by American band Sixpence None the Richer, released in 1995 (see 1995 in music). The recording was produced by Armand John Petri, who also managed the band from 1993 to 1997. ''This Beautiful Mess'' surpassed 50,000 copies sold during its first year of release and laid the foundation for Sixpence's self-titled breakout album two years later. ''This Beautiful Mess'' won the 1996 Dove Award for "Alternative/Modern Rock Album of the Year." The songs "Within a Room Somewhere" and "I Can't Explain" were both minor hits on the Christian music charts. Within a couple years of the album's release, two eventually significant rock bands formed under the moniker "This Beautiful Mess." The first originated in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1996 and went on to become the platinum-selling act OneRepublic. The second, formed in 1997, is the Dutch rock quintet from the Netherlands which continues making music under the same name. "This Beaut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larnelle Harris
Larnelle Steward Harris (born July 6, 1947) is an American gospel singer and songwriter. During his 40-plus years of ministry, Harris has recorded 18 albums, won five Grammy Awards and 11 Dove Awards, and has had several number one songs on the inspirational music charts. Early life A native of Danville, Kentucky, Harris started playing the drums at the age of nine. His first formal vocal training came when he attended college at Western Kentucky University, from which he graduated in 1969. Harris then became a part of the popular gospel touring group The Spurrlows (beginning as drummer). He received notability for his solo work and as member of the Gaither Vocal Band from 1984 through 1987. Music Perhaps Harris' best-known songs are his duets with Sandi Patty, "More than Wonderful" (1983) and "I've Just Seen Jesus" (1985). Others of his well received and popular songs are his self-penned "I Miss My Time With You" (1986) and "In It After All", written by Constant Change, a.k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra (band)
Petra is an American music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres and was, for many years, regarded as the "world's most popular Christian rock band". Formed in 1972, the band took its name from the Greek word for "rock". Though it disbanded formally in 2006, incarnations have played reunion shows in the years since and released two albums in November 2010, and in November 2017. In 2013, it reformed with a new drummer, Cristian Borneo, and recorded a new song titled "Holy is Your Name", before going back on tour. With a style initially similar to The Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Petra's sound evolved into a more energetic, driving rock sound in the early 1980s akin to Foreigner, Styx and Journey. Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Petra was one of the world's most popular Christian rock bands, with each of its albums during that period selling hundreds of thousands of copies while the band sold-out arenas and regularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Doubt (Petra Album)
''No Doubt'' is the fifteenth studio album of the Christian rock band, Petra. It was released on August 26, 1995. The tone of the album is more pop-oriented than any previous release featuring Schlitt. Most of the rock songs lack the driving edge of their previous albums, and the sonic field is no longer flooded with distorted guitars, leaning more toward a calculated, radio-friendly sound. All the guitars in the album were played by founder Bob Hartman. However, since he had quit touring with the band before the release of the album, new guitarist David Lichens was enlisted to travel with the band and appeared in the album art and promotional pictures. The album also featured another new member, keyboardist Jim Cooper. Cooper was a keyboard technician for former keyboardist John Lawry for several years. When Lawry retired, Cooper replaced him. Track listing All songs written by Bob Hartman, except where noted. # "Enter In" – 5:00 # "Think Twice" – 4:19 # "Heart of a Hero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anointed (band)
Anointed is a contemporary Christian music duo from Columbus, Ohio, known for their strong vocals and harmonies, featuring siblings Steve Crawford and Da'dra Crawford Greathouse, along with former members Nee-C Walls (who left the group in 2001) and Mary Tiller (who left in 1995). Their musical style includes elements of R&B, pop, rock, funk and piano ballads. The group has won seven Dove Awards, two Stellar Awards and three Grammy Award nominations.Music News JesusFreakHideout.com, February 2005Nissi - Stronger CD Baby The group has also been featured on several Christian compilation albums such as ''Real Life Music'', |
