Greg Hough is a Christian musician and, with

Bob Hartman Robert "Bob" Hartman (born December 26, 1949) is a Christian artist, guitarist, writer and songwriter. He is the founder of Christian rock band Petra. Hartman was involved with the band from its foundation in 1972 to its end in 2005. He took ...

, one of the founding members in 1972 of the

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. During the 1970s, he and Hartman were the band's main songwriters and lead singers.

Career

Hough left the band in 1979. He continued to play Christian music with the bands Ransom and Ju'so. He also worked with the alternative-country trio Andrews, Hough, and Dan. In 2003, Hough returned to

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when he joined the former Petra founding member and

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, Bill Glover in a project called GHD. After releasing one album, another former Petra founding member, John DeGroff, joined the project and the band changed its name to GHF (God Has Forgiven). In 2004, Hough and DeGroff rejoined Hartman on stage in a reunion of the original Petra line-up held in

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. Outside music, Hough has been a practitioner of

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, since May 1989.

References

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