Michael Dean Boggs (born November 8, 1978) is an American
Christian music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely aroun ...
ian, guitarist, and
worship pastor
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, who mainly plays
Christian pop
Contemporary Christian music, also known as CCM, Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and s ...
. His nickname was "Boggsy", while he was with
FFH. He has released two studio albums, ''More Than Moved'' in 2010 with and ''
More Like a Lion'' in 2014 with Stylos Records, while he released, an
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. , ''More Like a Lion'' in 2013, with Stylos Records. He was awarded the
Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year, in 2012.
Early and personal life
Boggs was born, Michael Dean Boggs, on November 8, 1978, in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...
, where he started playing music by drumming "on pots and pans with pencils", while his father joined in playing a guitar and singing.
During his tenure with
FFH, he was in the process of obtaining a theology degree.
He is married to his girlfriend from Oklahoma, Keely, who is an
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
graduate, being a former elementary school teacher.
They relocated to
Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin is a city in and county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. About south of Nashville, it is one of the principal cities of the Nashville metropolitan area and Middle Tennessee. As of 2020, its population was 83,454 ...
, for her husband to pursue his musical ambitions, where he joined FFH, in 1999.
Boggs is currently the worship minister at Kairos Nashville.
Music career
His music career started in 1999, with the band FFH, where he was their guitarist and background vocalist, for eight years from 1999 until 2007, when he commenced his worship leading and individual singing and songwriting career.
He released, ''More Than Moved'', a studio album, on October 19, 2010, from .
The subsequent release, an
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. , ''More Like a Lion'', was released on September 24, 2013, by Stylos Records.
His second studio album, ''
More Like a Lion'', was released on March 25, 2014, with Stylos Records.
Boggs was awarded with the
Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year, in 2012.
Discography
;Studio albums
* ''More Than Moved'' (October 19, 2010, )
* ''
More Like a Lion'' (March 24, 2014, Stylos)
;EPs
* ''More Like a Lion'' (September 24, 2013, Stylos)
References
External links
Official website
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1978 births
Living people
American performers of Christian music
Musicians from Oklahoma
Musicians from Tennessee
Songwriters from Oklahoma
Songwriters from Tennessee