Profile: Steve Camp - Singer, Songwriter

Steven J. Camp (born April 13, 1955) is a prominent American Dove Award-nominated contemporary Christian music artist with an adult contemporary pop sound. He was very popular in the 1980s and early 1990s, but his popularity now continues mostly in his ChristianReformed Theology. He started Audience One Ministries, and his blog covering Christian music, biblical study, reformation, and revival. writing addressing current trends and matters of Reformed Theology. He started Audience One Ministries, and his blog covering Christian music, biblical study, reformation, and revival.

He is well-known for his strong views that Christian musicians are called to make direct, uncompromising music that confronts the world with the message of the Scriptures. Following Martin Luther's 95 theses, on Reformation Day (October 31), 1998 he sent out his own 107 theses calling for a reformation in contemporary Christian music.

Born in Wheaton, Illinois, Camp was raised by Christian parents; by 5 years of age he confessed faith in Jesus. This greatly influenced his desire to serve God through his teenage years. As a young Christian, he created a close bond with legendary Christian singer/songwriter Larry Norman, who gave him advice concerning his own singing and songwriting. In addition, he met the late Keith Green, who encouraged him to make a stronger commitment to Jesus and at the same time his own ministry.

Camp attended Roosevelt University, where he majored in Music Composition and Theory under Professor Dodds, protegee to George Gershwin, and studied Business Law/Music at the College of DuPage, where his goal was to spread the gospel. Among many other college professors Steve had studied under, Camp didn't go through his academic circles for his theological or musical training. He did exactly that; hence, he received intense working knowledge of Scripture and theology, mastering the Greek language, and he has accomplished a library of historical and theological works. Camp also retains an orthodox historical Reformed theology, in the tradition of John Owen, Jeremiah Burroughs, Thomas Watson, Dr. John F. MacArthur, Dr. D.A. Carson, Dr. R.C. Sproul and the late Dr. Stephen Olford. He also began a longtime relationship with a then-unknown - Rob Frazier - in the late 1970s. Frazier, a one-time Petra member, began his tenure with Camp co-writing songs for Camp's own albums. Camp's singing career began when he played acoustic guitar and sang backups on Scott Wesley Brown's 1977 album, I'm Not Religious, I Just Love The Lord, one year before he went on his own. Compared to Frazier, he also began a longtime friendship with Brown in 1973, aged 18 at the time. Camp was reunited with Frazier on Frazier's 1992 compilation Retrospect, on which Frazier and Camp sang duet vocals for the song Why.

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VIDEO: He is all you need - Steve Camp

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Featured Artist Profile: Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart

Mylon LeFevre (born October 6, 1944 in Gulfport, Mississippi) is the former Christian rock singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Mylon and Broken Heart and a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame member. He currently travels around the United States, ministering, teaching and singing. He frequently appears on such television networks as the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the Daystar Television Network.

In 1980, LeFevre "committed [his] life to Jesus". He got a job as a janitor at his church, Mt. Paran Church of God, in Atlanta. He started a Christian band called Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart in 1981 with some musicians he met in a Bible study: Kenny Bentley, John Hampton, Joe Hardy, and Dean Harrington. A small offshoot gospel label from MCA Records known as Songbird released his "comeback" album Brand New Start in 1981. Over the years guitarists Scott Allen and Trent Argante would also be members, along with keyboardist Marshall Pratt.

Over the next ten years, he released ten albums and traveled over a million miles. In 1987, the group attempted to cross over to mainstream rock by rechristening itself Look Up! and releasing an album on non-Christian industry label Columbia Records. The album contained a retooled updating of "Peace Begins Within" from the We Believe album and a cover of DeGarmo and Key's "Love is All You Need" but it was not the breakthrough success the band had hoped for.

In 1987, the band received a Rock Album of The Year GMA Dove Award for Crack the Sky. That same year, they received a Grammy for Best Gospel Performance by a Duo, Group, Choir, or Chorus.

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http://www.mylon.org/homePage.php


MYLON & BROKEN HEART - My Heart Belongs To Him – Music Video

Featured Artist: David and The Giants

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The Christian Music Experience Featured Artist:

DAVID AND THE GIANTS

Beginning as a rock band in Laurel, Mississippi, the Huff brothers - David, Clay, and Ray - with Jerry Parker on drums, toured the Southeast during the 1960s as David and the Giants. In 1977 they switched to a Christian rock format. They continued to sing and record together through 1999. Recording and performing together for almost 40 years, the band released 17 albums. Though the band's style has been compared to that of Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart, their most commercially successful work came in the 1960s with a sound, augmented by The Muscle Shoals Horns, that closely resembled that of Jay & the Techniques

In 1977, the band members converted to Christianity. That same year they released their first Christian album, Song of Songs. Released without label support, it contained ballads and a mixture of pop rock. Their second album, This One's For You had a similar sound. Two years later, the band recorded Step in My Shoes. Devoid of up-tempo songs, the album was not commercially successful. For their fourth album, the band returned to a sound much closer to their musical roots. Almost Midnight, a rock album, was more successful than the first three. They continued with that sound for their fifth attempt, entitled Heaven or Hell.

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David and The Giants – “Restless” video

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CME Featured Artist: Benny Hester

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The Christian Music Experience Featured Artist:

BENNY HESTER

Benny Hester is a music artist and songwriter. He is best known for his chart-topping songs, "When God Ran" and top 40 crossover hit "Nobody Knows Me Like You". Benny has written and recorded more than twenty-five number one and top ten songs.

Benny’s first single, “Jesus Came Into My Life”, was a breakthrough recording, becoming the first contemporary rock song to be universally accepted and widely played across all Christian Radio formats. The title track from his third album, “Nobody Knows Me Like You”, reached number one on the Christian Music Charts and became the first CCM song to break the Billboard Top 40 AC Charts.

To read more about Benny Hester go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Hester

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http://bennyhester.com/

LISTEN TO: When God Ran by Benny Hester

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Benny Hester - “Remember Me” Lyrics:

It's eight o'clock, and I'm scared as I can be,
Just thinking as I stand outside your house,
It's been ten years if it's been three,
Walk up to your door and start to knock.
It flies open in my face,
All that I can say is the only words that come into my mind...

Remember me?
I'm the one that hurt you,
Remember me?
I'm the one that left you all alone,
Remember me?
Yes, I'm the one that stole your happiness,
And there's something I've got to say now that I'm getting things right,
Something I got to ask of someone else tonight.

I've taken and taken what never belonged to me,
I'm a thief and I'm guilty,
Though I don't deserve a thing, when you come into your kingdom, Jesus, remember me.

Remember me,
Remember me.

Tonight's the night to tell you,
Oh, he has gripped your soul and brought you here,
Remember back when you and, we I hurt each other so,
So, there's something I've gotta say now that I'm getting it right,
Forgiveness I've got to ask from God himself tonight.

I've taken and taken what never belonged to me,
I'm a thief of the worst kind,
And, though I don't deserve a thing, remember me,
Lord, when you come into your kingdom, remember me.

No, I've never cried out for much mercy,
And now in this moment I've found it.

Remember me,
End this pain and suffering,
Remember me,
Forgive the past, and on this very day....

I will be with you in paradise,
I will be with you in paradise,
I will be with you in paradise,
I will be with you in paradise,
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Christian Rock & Pop – CD Sale – Rare and Out-of-Print

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Michael W. Smith - Stand
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Jump 5 – Accelerate
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Petra Praise - The Rock Cries Out
Chasing Furies - With Abandon
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Cindy Morgan – The Best So Far
David Meece - Count The Cost
Wayne Watson - Giants in The Land