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Stryper. The birth of contemporary Christian music dates back to the late 1960s, but Christian rock came into rits own in the 1980s. [1]Billboard magazine started to post the Top 10 Christian rock songs, and some radio stations [who?] started to play Christian rock.
List of gospel songs which have reported sales of 1 million units or higher but are uncertified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Though " I'll Take You There " by The Staple Singers was certified Gold on January 31, 2019, for digital sales of 500,000 units, [ 4 ] its physical sales of 1.5 million units, reported on May 6 ...
Saved is the twentieth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 23, 1980, by Columbia Records. Saved was the second album of Dylan's "Christian trilogy". It expanded on themes explored on its predecessor Slow Train Coming, with gospel arrangements and lyrics extolling the importance of a strong personal faith.
The song was recorded as a duet with the rest of the group singing back-up, and it appeared on the 1982 album "Keeper of My Heart." The song rose to number one on the Contemporary Christian charts. Other duets by the group also performed well on the charts, such as "You'll Still Be Lord Of All."
After receiving a second Grammy nomination in the Best Soul Gospel Performance by a Duo or Group category for the song, "He'll Turn Your Scars into Stars" – later included on the album Heart & Soul (1986) – [24] the sisters were invited to perform live on the following 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985, alongside their mother, where they ...
The Masters Five or Masters V was a Southern Gospel Music quartet founded in 1980 by Hovie Lister as a special consolidation of well-known performers from The Statesmen Quartet and The Blackwood Brothers. [1]
Jon Robert Gibson (born January 3, 1962) [12] is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, and record producer.Originally a blue-eyed soul singer, he switched from secular music to contemporary Christian music in the late-1980s.
The Mercy River Boys became one of Canaan Records' most successful performing artists in 1979–80 when their Breakout album crossed over from Southern gospel into the country music radio market; the songs to cross over into country music radio included "You Needed Me", "Blow On Temptest", and the semi-biographical song "Flat Top Martin Guitar".