Luis Danilo Montero (born 1 November 1962) is a Costa Rican
contemporary Christian music
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singer, author, and pastor, who is pastor of
Lakewood Church
Lakewood Church is a non-denominational evangelical Christian megachurch located in Houston, Texas. It is among the largest congregations in the United States, averaging about 45,000 attendees per week. The 16,800-seat Lakewood Church building, ...
's Spanish-speaking congregation.
Biography
Born on 1 November 1962, in San Jose, Costa Rica, he formed "Sígueme Internacional" in 1983 and began leading worship around the same time. A ministry as well as a musical production company, Sígueme organizes worship retreats internationally. He has recorded about 18 albums throughout his ministerial career that are part of the songs that are sung today in many Hispanic-speaking Protestant churches. He married Gloriana Diaz in April 2006. He converted to Christianity at the age of 14 when he was invited to the Great Campaign of Divine Healing annual meeting.
Montero has replaced
Marcos Witt
Jonathan Mark Witt Holder (born May 19, 1962), better known as simply Marcos Witt, is an American Christian singer and pastor. Witt is considered one of the most influential and famous Spanish speaking figures of Christian music.
Biography
Witt ...
as the pastor for the Spanish-speaking ministry of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church- Houston, Texas. He has written several Christian books such as "El Abrazo del Padre" and "Generación de Adoradores." He married Gloriana Diaz on 22 April 2006 in San José, Costa Rica, to a large number of witnesses and being present to Rev. Rey Matos, Raul Vargas, and Ricardo Salazar, pastor of the church "Vida Abundante". He led a ministry that won the 2008 Billboard Award for Latin music's best Christian music album with the song "Your Love."
He and his wife reside in
Houston
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, Texas.
Discography
* ''Las Naciones Cantarán'' (1992)
* ''Celebra al Señor'' (1995)
* ''
Admirable'' (1997)
* ''Eres Todopoderoso'' (1999)
* ''Cantare De Tu Amor'' (2001)
* ''Sígueme'' (2003)
* ''Lo Mejor De Danilo Montero'' (2003)
* ''Fortaleza'' (2004)
* ''Danilo En Vivo (desde Lima, Perú)'' (2005)
* ''Fortaleza (En Vivo)'' (2005)
* ''Eres Tú'' (2006)
* ''Tu Amor'' (2008)
* ''Devoción'' (2009)
* ''La Carta Perfecta (En Vivo)'' (2013)
* ''Mi Viaje'' (2018)
*''Mi Viaje'' ''(En Vivo)'' (2019)
* ''Encuentros'' (2020)
References
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Performers of contemporary Christian music
Costa Rican performers of Christian music
Costa Rican male singers
Costa Rican Christians
1962 births
Musicians from San José, Costa Rica
Spanish-language singers
Living people