''As I Am'' is the seventh and, to date, final studio album by American Christian singer-songwriter

Kim Boyce Kim Boyce Koreiba (born March 14, 1961, in Winter Haven, Florida) is an American Christian music singer. She is best known for her 1990s hit ''By Faith''. She was Miss Manatee and Miss Florida 1983 and competed at Miss America 1984. Boyce's hit ...

. It is her first and only release on Diadem Music Group, distributed by

Benson Records Benson Records was founded by Bob Benson and John T. Benson, who formed the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902. The record label started out as Heart Warming Records, creating house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, R ...

in 1997. Like her previous album ''

By Faith ''By Faith'' is the sixth studio album by American Christian singer-songwriter Kim Boyce. It is her second and final album on the Warner Alliance label released in 1994. The album is more adult contemporary, leaving behind her dance pop sound of ...

'', ''As I Am'' continues her

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

sound. Boyce duets with her husband Gary Koreiba on the track "Amazing Love for Me". Production duties were done by Bryan Lenox while James Hollihan, Jr. (

Russ Taff Russell Taff (born November 11, 1953) is an American gospel singer and songwriter who grew up in Farmersville, California. He has sung a variety of musical styles throughout his career including: pop rock, traditional Southern gospel, contempora ...

) produced the track "The Sound of Your Voice".

Track listing

Note: "The Sound of Your Voice" was produced by James Hollihan, Jr. All other tracks were produced by Bryan Lenox.

Personnel

* Kim Boyce – vocals * Pat Coil – keyboards (1, 6), acoustic piano (2, 4, 7), keyboard pad (3),

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

(8) * Dennis Patton – keyboards (2), percussion (2, 4), Hammond B3 organ (4), acoustic piano (6),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

(6), programming (9) * Marc Q. Harris – acoustic piano (8) * James Hollihan, Jr. – acoustic piano (10), arrangements (10) * Mark Baldwin – acoustic guitar (1-4, 7), 12-string acoustic guitar (6), guitars (8) * Jerry McPherson – electric guitar (1-4, 7),

Hawaiian guitar Hawaiian guitar may refer to: *Lap steel guitar, a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap *Ukulele The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ...

(2), all electric guitars (6), guitars (8) * Glenn Pearce – guitar solo (1), acoustic guitar (4, 7), guitars (9) *

Matt Slocum Matt Slocum (born 27 December 1972) is a guitarist, cellist, pianist and composer, known for his work as the principal songwriter and lead guitarist of Sixpence None the Richer. Biography Born in Rhode Island to Joseph and Hildegard Slocum, ...

– electric guitar (4),

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

(7) * Danny O'Lannerghty – bass (1-4, 6, 7, 8) * Matt Pierson – bass (10) * John Hammond – drums (1-4, 6, 7, 8), percussion (6) * Steve Grossman – drums (10) *

Eric Darken Eric A. Darken is an American percussionist, composer, and programmer. Biography Drawing inspiration from his grandfather, a band leader. Darken began playing drums at age 12, and played timpani and mallets in high school. Darken attended ...

– percussion (1, 3, 6, 7) * Bryan Lenox – percussion (1, 3, 5, 6) * Matt Davich –

woodwind Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed ...

s (10) * Robbie Shankle – woodwinds (10) * Leslie Norton –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(10) * Chris McDonald – string arrangements and conductor (2, 3, 5) * John Darnall – string conductor (10) *

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– strings (2, 3, 5, 10) * Michael English – backing vocals (1) * Gary Koreiba – backing vocals (1, 6), vocals (9) * Bo Cooper – backing vocals (2), acoustic piano (3, 5) * Todd Cooper – backing vocals (2) Choir on "Nothing in the World" * Marshall Hall, Nikki Hassman, Gary Koreiba,

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and

Todd Smith Todd Smith may refer to: People *Todd Smith (musician), American singer, songwriter and guitarist * Todd Smith (politician), Canadian politician *Todd Smith (singer), American vocalist and member of Selah *Todd Smith (wrestler), American wrestler * ...

Production and Technical

* Larry Day – executive producer * Bryan Lenox – engineer (1-9), mixing (1-9) * James Hollihan, Jr. – recording (10), mixing (10) * Rob Burrell – assistant engineer (1-9), production assistant (1-9) * Amanda Seers – assistant engineer (1-9) * Aaron Swihart – assistant engineer (1-9) * Lynn Fuston – additional engineer (10) * Mike Rapp – art direction * Robert Ascroft – design * Chris Nichols – photography * Jamie Kearney – stylist * Carol Maxwell – hair, make-up

Critical reception

Mike Rimmer of ''

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'' praised the album saying that "motherhood brings a new source of inspiration, reflected in many of the songs. 'Who Hung The Moon' is a child's question that brings Kim back to the wonder of creation in a jazz-tinged piece of MOR! There's more jazz when she turns in a stunning lounge singer performance on 'The Sound Of Your Voice'. Clearly the adult Kim is pushing out the musical boat and enjoying herself! One ballad stands out, the beautiful 'Remember Me', which is a communion song and has a touch of Whitney about it. Just a gorgeous song. The duet with husband Gary Koreiba "Amazing Love For Me" is another song born out of Kim's experience of parenting, this time a realisation of how much the Father gave to us in sending Jesus."

Radio singles

References

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