Glorious is a French Christian (Catholic) rock and worship music group, originally from

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, and based in

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. It was formed in 2000, following the

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, by three brothers from Valence. Since 2000, Glorious has released eleven studio albums published by Rejoyce Musique: ''Glorious'', ''Libre'' (Free), ''Des ombres et des lumières'' (Shadows and lights), ''Génération louange'' (Generation praise), ''Citoyens des cieux,'' (Citizens of heaven) ''Électro pop louange'' (Electro pop praise), ''Messe de la grâce'' (Mass of grace), ''1 000 échos'', ''Messe du Frat,'' (Mass of brotherhood) ''Noël'' (Christmas) and ''Promesse'' (Promise). They also have three live albums, recorded at the Frat gathering in front of 12,000 young people in 2011, 2013 and 2015, as well as a single ''Une vie pour une génération'' (A life for a generation), which is a song tribute to

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, sur ''Pasaj'', 5 novembre 2008. This was briefly a best selling single. The last album, "Promesse", arrived in November 2018.

History

The group was formed in 2000, following the

, by three brothers from Valence: Aurélien, Benjamin and Thomas Pouzin. The group enjoyed good publicity from the release of their first album, ''Glorious'', and they made some television appearances on French national television. They were invited on to

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''On a tout essayé'' and also ''Tout le monde en parle'', presented by Thierry Ardisson. A report about the group also appeared on

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in 2013. On 15 November 2010 Glorious released their fifth studio album, ''Citoyens des cieux'' (Citizens of Heaven) (2010, Joy to the World / Rejoyce), including 11 unreleased pieces of "pop praise" composed from biblical texts. The album was accompanied by a live DVD that delivered the first images of the group on the stage for a series of animated worship evenings in a church in the centre of Lyon (Saint-Croix church): the Lyon Centre evenings. In April 2013, Glorious released a new studio album titled ''Électro pop louange'' (Electro pop praise), which ranked up to 70th place of the iTunes download charts. It was during this year that the group created the Worship Academy (based in their parish Lyon Centre – Sainte-Blandine in Lyon). This is a school of praise that allows a group of young people to spend a year of training in music and theology. The groups Hopen and Be Witness have already gone through this training. On 4 July 2017, Glorious was on stage in Paris at the Angels Music Awards at Olympia, and supported, for the second time, ''la musique inspirée''. Glorious released the album "Noël" at the end of 2017, composed of traditional Christmas songs and some compositions. In 2018, Glorious set to music the poem of

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for the album of

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''Aimer c'est tout donner'' (To love is to give everything). There are poems set to music as well as songs to Thérèse written and composed by the Pouzin brothers. In late 2018, Glorious released their new album "Promesse", with six clips recorded in their church and a duet with Natasha St-Pier: ''Le cantique des cantiques'' ("The Song of Songs").''

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'' n°2138 du 5 au 11 janvier 2019, p. 47

Lyon Centre

Lyon Centre is a concept inspired by American evangelical churches. It takes place in the Church of St. Croix, Lyon and meets every Thursday evening. Over 300 young people come each week, with more than 40,000 visitors since its inception up to 2010. After 2010, the Lyon Centre evenings took place once a month in the St. Croix church and since the end of 2013 at the St. Blandine church, also located in the 2nd arrondissement (district) of Lyon, and host on average 950 visitors each evening. Currently, Glorious hosts Mass every Sunday night and run the Worship Academy, a school of praise that allows a group of young people to spend a year of training in music and theology so as to serve in evangelization, on a tour and/or by serving in a parish. The Lyon Centre Conference, a weekend devoted to praise with church groups and preaching given by different speakers, has been held once a year since 2015. Ecumenism is very evident during these conferences, as speakers like the Christian Open Door Church, Mulhouse or

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are invited. Cardinal

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, former archbishop of Lyon, was the initiator, along with Glorious, of this project. The Lyon Centre model is spreading all over Europe:

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Members

Current members

* Thomas Pouzin – piano, guitar, vocals * Benjamin Pouzin – guitar, vocals * Emmanuel Robillard – bass * David Grail – drums * David Allevard – drums * Obed Rajaiah – keyboard * Pauline Bethuel – vocals

Former members

* Julien Sarazin – bass * Anaël Pin – keyboard * Aurélien Pouzin – guitar * Jean Prat – drums * Gaëtan Verrier Bert – guitar * Marie Cazenave (formerly Marie Le Fichant) – vocals

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

: ''Une vie pour une génération'', single in homage to

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

: ''En Cristo'', song for the JMJ 2011 *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: ''Nous dansons'' *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

: † = ♥ #DisLeAuMonde * 2015 : ''Notre Père'' * 2015 : ''Louez-Le'' * 2016 : ''Bienvenue'', premier single du nouvel album, ''1000 Échos'' * 2016 : ''Plus jamais le même'' * 2016 : ''Relever le faible'' * 2016 : ''Ave Maria'' with the young singers of Saint-Thomas d'Aquin * 2018 : ''Le Cantique des Cantiques'' (Duo with

)

Live albums

Notes and references

External links

*
JoyMusic.fr

Page MySpace officielle Glorious

Rejoyce Musique
*
Glorious, génération louange
', a documentary by KTO, 21 June 2019 {{Portal, Rock music, Christianity, France Christian rock groups Catholic music French musical groups French-language musical groups Musical groups established in 2000