Todd Wilson Agnew (born March 15, 1971, in Dallas, Texas) is a
contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as 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 Christianity, Chri ...
ian and songwriter.
Early life
Agnew was born in
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
, Texas and was adopted at birth. He was raised in Dallas, but began traveling to Memphis to help Andy Savage with a citywide Bible study for college students and singles called Metro Bible study in the fall of 1999 at
Germantown Baptist Church. During this time he began writing and introducing songs to the group which would later become songs on the album, ''
Grace Like Rain''. He would eventually move to Memphis to help Chris Conlee and Savage plant a church, which developed through the Metro event, called Highpoint Church.
Career
Agnew's best-known song is "
Grace Like Rain", a version of "
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn written in 1772 and published in 1779 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the most sung and most recorded hymn in the world, and especially popular in the Unit ...
", which was featured on his first album, ''
Grace Like Rain'', released in June 2003. Agnew wrote this song with his friend, Chris Collins. Since then, Agnew has released five label albums. 2005's ''
Reflection of Something'' introduced the popular songs "My Jesus" and "Unchanging One", which are often featured on Contemporary Christian radio stations. In late 2006, after the two highly acclaimed studio projects, he wrote a retelling of the Christmas story on his album entitled ''
Do You See What I See?''. His fourth studio project, ''
Better Questions'', was released in 2007 and featured the hit single "Our Great God" (a duet featuring
CCM artist
Rebecca St. James).
Agnew is known for performing his concerts barefoot.
Personal life
Agnew has said that "so much of what we identify
ative Americanswith now is alcoholism and poverty" but that he believed "there's still that prayer
'll be used toreach that culture for Christ."
On September 18, 2007, at the final concert of his ''Better Questions Tour'' in Memphis, TN, Agnew proposed to his longtime girlfriend. After a number of years touring out of Memphis, Agnew moved back to Texas; he currently lives in Austin, TX with his wife and two children.
Live band members
Current
* Sam Weaver – guitar
* Brian Wilson – drums
* Cody Spriggs – bass
* Chris Farnsworth – road manager/sound man
Former
* Jonathan Chu – violin (last performance with band August 30, 2008)
* Rob Ramsey – guitar (last performance with band August 30, 2008)
Discography
Awards and nominations
In 2007, ''
Do You See What I See?'' was nominated for a
Dove Award for Christmas Album of the Year at the
38th GMA Dove Awards.
He has been nominated for six additional Dove Awards including New Artist of the Year, Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year and Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year.
References
External links
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AllMusic
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Todd Agnewat
PureVolume
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Living people
1971 births
Singer-songwriters from Texas
American male singer-songwriters
American performers of Christian music
21st-century American male singers
21st-century American singer-songwriters