Artist: Steven Curtis Chapman Genre(s):
Gospel
Discography:
This Moment Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
His euphony a frustrate 'tween '70s-style light rock and orchestrated pop, Steven Curtis Chapman has been one of the most big performers of modern-day Christian euphony since the '80s. Born and raised in Paducah, KY, Chapman learned to play several instruments piece hanging extinct in his father's music fund, excelling at guitar and pianoforte. As a young military man, he enrolled as a pre-med scholarly person at Anderson College in Indiana. He shortly decided to pursue a music career and dropped extinct to go to Nashville, where he began working in a euphony show at Opryland USA. When non playing, he was busy authorship songs, a skill he erudite from his begetter. One of Chapman's tunes was recorded by the Imperials, a big gospel truth mathematical group, marking the beginning of his songwriting success; many of gospel singing and country's brightest stars, including Sandi Patti, Billy Dean, Glen Campbell, and Roger Whittaker, have gone on to track record Chapman's songs.
Although several different labels and music publishers were interested in him by 1987, he distinct to signboard with the major Christian euphony company Sparrow. That year he cut his first album,
First Hand. The first single released from the album, "Weak Days," made it to number two on the modern-day Christian chart. His moment record album, 1988's
Real Life Conversations, earned him quadruplet more hits, including the number one birdcall "His Eyes." Co-written with James Isaac Elliott, it earned the Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year awarding from the Gospel Music Association in 1989. That year, he as well won a GMA awarding for Best Songwriter of the Year. Released afterward that year, his third album,
More to This Life, contained quadruplet number 1 hits and in 1990 earned him an unprecedented ten nominations at the GMA Awards (he won five). His next record album,
For the Sake of the Call, which contained five number 1 singles and earned him another skid of GMA awards and his first Grammy in the Best Pop Gospel Album category, only strengthened his position as the king of Christian euphony.
In 1992, Chapman made a successful bid to pull in a more mainstream audience with
The Great Adventure, which besides won a Grammy, and its ensuant claim running video. When Sparrow Records was purchased by EMI/Liberty, they began selling the record album in discount stores, and in 1993, it went gold. Also released in 1993 (both as a video and CD),
The Live Adventure won more than GMA awards and besides earned Chapman a new laurels from American Songwriter cartridge, Songwriter and Artist of the Year. Chapman released his seventh record album,
Heaven in the Real World, in 1994 and embarked on a major spell. In 1996, Chapman released
Signs of Life, which was followed three long time later by
Dumb. Though Chapman's albums had constantly done well on the Billboard CCM charts, in 2001, after the release of
Resolution, he really began to pay back even more attention on the Top two hundred. Both it and 2002's
All About Love seedy in the Top 15, and his 2004 record
All Things New made it to number 22. In September 2005, in meter for the vacation season, Chapman released
All I Really Want for Christmas, and the following twelvemonth
Musical Blessing came out.
