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Welcome To The Freak Show
''Welcome to the Freak Show'' is a live audio and video recording by DC Talk. Chronicling the Jesus Freak Tour in the spring of 1996, they were released separately two months apart in 1997 on CD and VHS, respectively. A DVD version was later released in 2003. Each version has been certified gold by the RIAA (audio for 500,000 units and video for 50,000 units sold). Track listings differ slightly between the two. Select videos included a bonus audio disc that remains one of the rarest recordings in the DC Talk catalog. The audio version won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. Release dates * VHS June 17, 1997 * CD August 26, 1997 * DVD October 21, 2003 Jesus Freak Tour ''Jesus Freak'' released in November 1995 to first-week sales of 85,000 units, a record for a Christian album at the time. This placed it at No. 16 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Anticipation was already high for the scheduled 65-city tour set to begin in the Spring of 1996, but DC Talk ...
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John Hampton (music Producer)
John Hampton ( – December 12, 2014) was an American Grammy Award winning music engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a sound recording, recording or a Concert, live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization (audio), equalization, Dynamic range ... and music producer. Grammy Awards Other notable credits References External linksJohn Hampton Interviewat NAMM Oral History Collection (2005) 1950s births 2014 deaths American audio engineers American record producers Grammy Award winners Place of birth missing {{US-record-producer-stub ...
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Eddie DeGarmo
Eddie DeGarmo (born October 3, 1954) is an American contemporary Christian music recording artist, keyboardist, producer and singer. He became best friends with guitarist/lead vocalist Dana Key in first grade, and co-founded the Christian rock group DeGarmo and Key with him in 1978. DeGarmo played keyboards and provided vocals for the band. DeGarmo was one of the founders of Christian music label ForeFront Records. After almost twenty years performing with DeGarmo and Key, DeGarmo influenced other areas of the Christian music industry as an executive at ForeFront Records. DeGarmo, like Key, hails from Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne .... He is the uncle of singer and Broadway actress Diana DeGarmo. Discography Refere ...
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Electric Organ
An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has since developed into several types of instruments: * Hammond-style organs used in pop, rock and jazz; * digital church organs, which imitate pipe organs and are used primarily in churches; * other types including combo organs, home organs, and software organs. History Predecessors ;Harmonium The immediate predecessor of the electronic organ was the harmonium, or reed organ, an instrument that was common in homes and small churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a fashion not totally unlike that of pipe organs, reed organs generate sound by forcing air over a set of reeds by means of a bellows, usually operated by constantly pumping a set of pedals. The Harmonium used pressure, and the American reed organ or pump organ used suc ...
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Jason Halbert
Jason Halbert (born June 3, 1974) is an American producer, music director, musician, engineer and songwriter. He has been Kelly Clarkson's music director since 2003, shortly after her ''American Idol'' win. He has also served as music director for Nick Carter, Clay Aiken, Justin Guarini in addition to touring as keyboardist for Paulina Rubio and Reba McEntire. Halbert began his music career as keyboardist for DC Talk in 1994. He was also a founding member of the band SonicFlood. As a record producer Halbert has won a Grammy for his contributions to Kelly Clarkson's '' Stronger'' album which won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal album in 2013. As a songwriter, Halbert has co-written several songs with Kelly Clarkson, including '' Catch My Breath'' and " Cry". "Cry" was also featured in the Glee Season Three episode " Choke", performed by Lea Michele. In 2016 Halbert produced " Piece by Piece" (Idol Version) and also accompanied Clarkson, on piano for the recording. The song was ...
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Kevin Max
Kevin Max Smith (born August 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, and poet. He is best known for being a member of the Christian pop group dc Talk. As a solo artist following the band going on hiatus, he has recorded 12 full-length studio albums, including a Christmas album. From 2012 until 2014, he was the lead singer of the band Audio Adrenaline. Early life Adopted as a baby to Max and Elaine Smith, Kevin Smith was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kevin went to high school at Grand Rapids Baptist (now Northpointe Christian). He went to college at Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia. Kevin Max Smith legally changed his name to "Kevin Max" in 1997 as a tribute to his adoptive father, Max Smith. Career dc Talk years (1989–2000) While at Liberty University, he met fellow dc Talk bandmates Toby McKeehan ("tobyMac") and Michael Tait. They formed DC Talk in 1988 and went on to achieve great success in both Christian and mainstream music, winning numerous Dove ...
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Michael Tait
Michael DeWayne Tait (born May 18, 1966) is an American contemporary Christian music artist. Tait met Toby McKeehan in 1984 when he was in high school. Both Tait and McKeehan and Michael met Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late 1980s, and together they formed four-time Grammy winning band DC Talk, releasing five acclaimed studio albums. Following the group's entrance into hiatus in 2000, Tait had success in a solo career, founding a self-titled band that toured until 2007. Following his solo band's dissolution, Tait was the lead singer of Newsboys from 2009 to 2025. Aside from singing, Tait is also a self-taught guitar player. Tait has a sister, Lynda Randle, who is a Southern Gospel singer. On June 10, 2025, it was reported that Tait was alleged to have groomed and sexually assaulted several men. He subsequently admitted the allegations were "largely true", apologized and would continue to seek spiritual healing away from the public. Musical career ...
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Jesus Freak (song)
"Jesus Freak" is a song by the American contemporary Christian music group DC Talk. Released on August 1, 1995, it was the lead radio single from (and lends its name to) the group's Jesus Freak (album), fourth album. The song was written and produced by Toby McKeehan and Mark Heimermann. Lyrically, the song is about standing up for the belief in Jesus Christ in the midst of persecution. Musically, the song has been described as alternative rock and grunge. It received airplay on both contemporary Christian music and alternative rock stations, formats that rarely interact. "Jesus Freak" earned DC Talk three GMA Dove Awards. Origin and lyrics After the success of DC Talk's third album, ''Free at Last (DC Talk album), Free at Last'' (1992), which was based primarily on hip-hop and pop oriented songwriting, the trio decided to innovate their style.#radwan, Radwan (2009), p. 5. Michael Tait, one of the members of DC Talk, said, "I was totally into rock and roll at the time [...] I real ...
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Nu Thang
''Nu Thang'' is the second studio album from DC Talk, which was released in 1990. It was certified Gold by RIAA. Almost two decades later, the single "Nu Thang" and its YouTube video gained more recognition after a viral video was put up known as "The Nu Thang Kid". It is a video of a boy from the 1990s rapping "Nu Thang", and the video was used on an episode of Equals Three. Track listing #"When DC Talks"  – 2:28 #"He Works"  – 3:39 #"I Luv Rap Music"  – 3:49 #"No More"  – 3:37 #"Nu Thang"  – 4:12 #"Things of This World"  – 5:11 #"Walls"  – 4:10 #"Talk It Out"  – 3:59 #"Take It to the Lord"  – 4:20 #"Children Can Live (Without It)"  – 3:56 #"Can I Get a Witness"  – 4:25 Singles *"I Luv Rap Music" *"Can I Get A Witness" Music videos *"I Luv Rap Music" *"Nu Thang" *"Walls" Personnel DC Talk * Toby McKeehan – lead and backing vocals, rap, drum programming, samples, scratches * Kevin Max Smith � ...
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" is a song by American rock band R.E.M., which first appeared on their 1987 album, ''Document''. It was released as the album's second single in November 1987, reaching No. 69 in the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and later reaching No. 39 on the UK Singles Chart on its re-release in December 1991. Lyrics The track is known for its quick-flying, seemingly stream of consciousness rant with many diverse references, such as a quartet of individuals with the initials "L.B.": Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs. In a 1990s interview with ''Musician'' magazine, R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe claimed that the "L.B." references came from a dream he had in which he found himself at a party surrounded by famous people who all shared those initials. "The words come from everywhere," Stipe explained to '' Q'' in 1992. "I'm extremely aware of everything around me, whether I am in a sleeping s ...
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