Chris Quilala is an American

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ian and worship leader with the Jesus Culture band and formerly with the Bethel Music collective. He primarily plays Christian pop and

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Personal life

Quilala met his future wife, Alyssa Gulino, when she was seventeen and he was twenty-five while they were in a church in Pasadena. They have five children together: Ella, Aria, Jethro (''d.'' 2014), Liv and Maddex. After Chris and Alyssa's son Jethro died in December 2014, they wrote the song Miracles, which appeared on Jesus Culture's 2016 album

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. The Quilala family resides in

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. Chris Quilala and Alyssa divorced in 2019. In December 2019, Quilala was one of several evangelical Christian worship leaders to pray for President

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in the Oval Office.

Music career

Quilala has been part of the Jesus Culture movement, since he was fourteen years old in 1996. He has been featured on many Jesus Culture albums, including ''Everything'' (2006), ''We Cry Out'' (2007), ''Your Love Never Fails'' (2008), ''Consumed'' (2009), ''Come Away'' (2010), ''Awakening: Live from Chicago'' (2011), ''Live From New York'' (with

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) (2012), '' Unstoppable Love'' (2014), and ''

'' (2016). Quilala's debut solo album, '' Split the Sky'', was released in 2016. Recently, Quilala co-wrote the song "Your Love Awakens Me" with Phil Wickham, which appears on Wickham's album '' Children of God'' (2016). Along with being a guitarist, Chris is also a drummer. He started his musical career playing drums for Bethel Music. He was the drummer for the albums ''

For the Sake of the World ''For the Sake of the World'' is the fourth album from California-based worship collective Bethel Music. The album, produced by Brian Johnson, Ian McIntosh and Jeffrey Kunde, was released on 1 October 2012 by the collective's imprint label, Beth ...

'' (2012) and '' Be Lifted High'' (2011) as well as Brian & Jenn Johnson's albums, '' We Believe'' (2006) and ''

Where You Go I Go ''Where You Go I Go'' is the third live album by American Christian worship duo Brian & Jenn Johnson. The album was released on September 30, 2008 by ION Records. Jeremy Edwardson and Brian Johnson worked together on the production of the album. ...

'' (2008). He also featured on Bethel's debut album '' Here Is Love'' (2010) performing the song "King of Wonders".

Discography

Albums

Singles

As lead artist

As a featured artist

Other charted songs

Awards

Grammy Awards

GMA Dove Awards

ASCAP Christian Awards

BMI Christian Awards

References

External links

Record label website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quilala, Chris 1982 births Living people American performers of Christian music Musicians from California Songwriters from California People from Redding, California Musicians from Sacramento, California Performers of contemporary worship music Performers of contemporary Christian music