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Be Lifted High
''Be Lifted High'' is the second live album by California-based worship collective Bethel Music. The album was released on February 15, 2011 by Kingsway Music alongside the group's imprint label, Bethel Music. Jeremy Edwardson worked on the production of the album. The album was recorded live at Bethel Church in Redding, California and includes a DVD containing interviews about worship with Bethel Church pastors Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton as well as Bethel Music artists such as Brian and Jenn Johnson, Jeremy Riddle and others. Critical reception James Christopher Monger of AllMusic rated the album three and a half stars out of five, saying that the songs are "bolstered by an enthusiastic crowd and the top-notch production values that listeners have come to expect from the series." Cross Rhythms music critic Stephen Luff rated the album nine square out of ten, concluding that the album "an excellent resource for churches and individuals alike and raises the bar for f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethel Music
Bethel Music is an American music label and worship movement from Redding, California, originating out of Bethel Church (Redding, California), Bethel Church where they started making music in 2001. Bethel Music has grown from being a local church music ministry to a global outreach made up of a collective of songwriters, artists and musicians. They focus on producing worship songs and albums that are largely written and recorded by members of their Artist Collective. History From 2009 to 2013, Bethel Music rapidly grew from being a relatively small local church music ministry to becoming a fully-fledged record label and publishing company, featuring songwriters and worship leaders based out of Bethel Church in Redding, California. In January 2015, Bethel Music launched their Artist Collective, expanding their group of locally based artists to include North Carolinians Josh Baldwin and Jonathan David & Melissa Helser, Jonathan and Melissa Helser. Later that year, in May, they in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Johnson (American Musician)
Brian Mark Johnson (born March 17, 1978) is an American contemporary worship musician and worship pastor. He is the president and co-founder of Bethel Music, as well as a member of its Artist Collective and is one-half of the husband-and-wife worship duo, Brian & Jenn Johnson. He is also a senior worship pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California, and a Senior Overseer of WorshipU, an online school of worship under Bethel Music which he co-founded with Jenn Johnson. As a solo musician, Johnson has released one album, ''Love Came Down - Live Acoustic Worship in the Studio'' (2010). As a part of Brian & Jenn Johnson, three live albums have been released: '' Undone'' (2001), '' We Believe'' (2006), the duo's first release to chart on ''Billboard''s Christian Albums chart, and '' Where You Go I Go'' (2008). The duo has also released one studio album, '' After All These Years'' (2017), which charted on the US ''Billboard'' 200. As a founding member of Bethel Music, Johnson ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Quilala
Chris Quilala is an American Christian musician and worship leader with the Jesus Culture band and formerly with the Bethel Music collective. He primarily plays Christian pop and contemporary worship music. Personal life Quilala met his future wife, Alyssa Gulino, when she was seventeen and he was twenty-five while they were in a church in Pasadena. They have five children together: Ella, Aria, Jethro (''d.'' 2014), Liv and Maddex. After Chris and Alyssa's son Jethro died in December 2014, they wrote the song Miracles, which appeared on Jesus Culture's 2016 album Let It Echo. The Quilala family resides in Sacramento, California. Chris Quilala and Alyssa divorced in 2019. In December 2019, Quilala was one of several evangelical Christian worship leaders to pray for President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Music career Quilala has been part of the Jesus Culture movement, since he was fourteen years old in 1996. He has been featured on many Jesus Culture albums, including ''Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steffany Gretzinger
Steffany Dawn Gretzinger (née Frizzell) is a Christian music singer-songwriter and former ensemble vocalist with Bethel Music, based in Redding, California. She released her first solo album, ''The Undoing'', with Bethel Music in 2014. The album was a ''Billboard'' magazine breakthrough release, reaching number twenty on the ''Billboard'' 200, and also gained top five status among Top Christian and Independent albums in September 2014. Career Featuring Steffany Gretzinger worked mainly as a worship leader with Bethel Music, which is a part of Bethel Church in Redding, California. She was involved in three of Bethel Music's releases, which included: background vocals for ''Be Lifted High'' (2011, as Steffany Frizzell), "One Thirst" with fellow Bethel collective member Jeremy Riddle, and background vocals on fellow Bethel Music member William Matthews' release, '' Hope's Anthem'' (2011, as Steffany Frizzell). Another release from such a gathering was '' The Loft Sessions'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The McClures
The McClures are an American contemporary worship duo composed of musicians Paul McClure and Hannah McClure. The duo released their debut studio album, '' The Way Home'', on August 30, 2019, through Bethel Music. The album spawned the singles "Now I See", "Only Have One", and "Reign Above It All". ''The Way Home'' debuted at No. 36 on ''Billboard'''s Top Christian Albums Chart in the United States. History Background Paul and Hannah McClure first began leading worship at their local church as teenagers in their hometown of High Point, North Carolina. In 2009, they attended the WorshipU conference hosted by Bethel Music in Redding, California. This influenced the duo's cross-country relocation to Redding, where they began serving as worship leaders and songwriters at Bethel Church in 2011. 2019-present: ''The Way Home'', ''Christmas Morning'' The McClures made their career debut on Bethel Music with the release of "Now I See" on July 12, 2019, as the lead single to their debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Matthews (musician)
William Irvin Matthews (born November 5, 1983) is an American Christian musician. He started his music career in 2011, with the release of '' Hope's Anthem'', by Bethel Music alongside Kingsway Music. Early life Matthews was born William Irvin Matthews on November 5, 1983, in the city of Detroit to a father who was a preacher and a mother who was a choir director. At 12 years old, he moved with his family to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he started honing his acumen as a songwriter. His baptism occurred when he was 18 years old. He moved to Kansas City, Missouri for the first part of 2007, where he attended worship services at International House of Prayer. Subsequently, he relocated later that year to Redding, California at the request of Kim Walker-Smith, where he met Brian and Jenn Johnson. Matthews ended up loving the church for its worship program, and remained a member of Bethel Church for several years. In 2014, Matthews left Bethel Church after six years, citing cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Cook (singer)
Amanda Lindsey Cook (born Amanda Falk; May 8, 1984), also known as Falcon (since 2020) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and contemporary Christian music recording artist from Niverville, Manitoba. She received a Juno Awards, Juno Award at the Juno Awards of 2006, 2006 awards ceremony for her eponymous debut album. Cook has released three albums under her maiden name ''Amanda Falk'', ''Beautiful'', and ''In Between the Now & Then''. In 2010, Cook joined the Bethel Music collective, and has since released two albums under Bethel ''Brave New World (Amanda Cook album), Brave New World'' and ''House on a Hill''. Musical career In 2004, Cook released her self-titled debut album, ''Amanda Falk'', on Winnipeg label Avante Records. It was later released to the iTunes Store on May 30, 2006. The album received the Juno Awards of 2006, 2006 Juno Award for the Juno Award for Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year, Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year. Cook's second al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Hughes
Timothy David Llewelyn Hughes (born 23 July 1977) is a British worship leader, singer, songwriter, and Anglican priest. Formerly the director of worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, a large Anglican church in central London, he has since been ordained as a minister in the Church of England and appointed Vicar of St Luke's, Gas Street Birmingham. He leads Worship Central, an international worship training and resource centre. Hughes has written a number of songs that are sung worldwide, including the Dove Award-winning " Here I Am to Worship", "Happy Day", "Beautiful One", "Jesus Saves", "At Your Name", and "The Way". Personal life Hughes, the son of an Anglican vicar, grew up in High Wycombe, before moving to Birmingham as a teenager when his father was appointed vicar of St John's Church, Harborne. He studied history at Sheffield University, graduating in 2000. Hughes is married to Rachel and has four children. Career Worship leader Hughes began his music career in 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Thing Remains (Passion Song)
"One Thing Remains" is a worship song written by Brian Johnson, Jeremy Riddle and Christa Black Gifford. Initially released by Bethel Music on their second album '' Be Lifted High'' (2011), the song rose to prominence when it was performed by Christian organization Passion. It was released as Passion's second single from their 2012 album, '' Passion: White Flag'', on September 14, 2012. It features guest vocals from American contemporary Christian music singer Kristian Stanfill Kristian Paul Stanfill (born April 9, 1983) is an American Christian music singer, songwriter and worship leader from Atlanta, Georgia. His 2011 album '' Mountains Move'' reached No. 64 on the ''Billboard'' 200. He is currently the worship pasto .... The song became both Passion and Stanfill's first Hot Christian Songs No. 1. The track held the No. 1 position for four weeks. Even with Brian Johnson singing it on Be Lifted High, the song was first released on Bethel's Youth (at the time) led group Jesus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Rhythms
Cross Rhythms is a Christian media organisation based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It operates an FM and online radio station, produces radio shows sent internationally, and its website has resources about contemporary Christian music. History 1983–2002 In 1983, Chris Cole started a 30-minute weekly Christian music radio show on Plymouth Sound FM, an Independent Local Radio station in Plymouth. Originally titled ''The Solid Rock of Jesus Christ'', the programme aired on Sunday evenings. It grew into a one-hour programme, and became one of the most listened to programmes in its time slot in South Devon. The show continued until 1996. In May 1990, music journalist Tony Cummings founded the magazine '' Cross Rhythms''. In 1991, publication of the magazine was taken over by Cole's publishing company, Cornerstone House. That same year, Cross Rhythms took over the organisation and management, of what had previously been the Umberleigh Rock Gospel Festival. The event was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
