Rebecca St. James

Rebecca St. James is from Australia and is my absolute favorite music artist. I've been listening to her music for about 5 years now. I have 8 of her CDs (all but 2): Pray, Transform, Worship God, Wait for Me: The Best From Rebecca St. James, Live Worship: Blessed Be Your Name, If I Had One Chance to Tell You Something, aLive in Florida, and several singles.

From http://www.rsjames.com/:

"A multiple Dove Award winner as well as a winner of America’s most prestigious musical Award—the Grammy®—Australian born REBECCA ST. JAMES has throughout the late ‘90’s until present been considered to be a major defining female voice in contemporary Christian Music.

With the dawning of 2007, her groundbreaking album project Pray has most recently achieved RIAA gold record status—following in the footsteps of the previously gold certified RSJ album God.

In January 2007, she was for the 6th consecutive year named “Favorite Female Artist” in Contemporary Christian Music by the more than 27,000 votes cast by readers of CCM Magazine, considered the flagship publication of the Christian genre. Rebecca also repeated with he “Best Female Artist of 2006” award from one of Christian music’s highest traffic music sites—Christianitytoday.com—her fourth consecutive year to be given this honor With sales of her music soaring around the globe, her signature blend of modern pop/rock sensibilities and lyrics of unwavering devotion, has blazed straight to the heart of an entire generation. Along the road of more than 200 concert dates a year, her path has led to 17 Top 10 singles--#9 of which reached the #1 spot on the charts.

In April of 2006, she won yet another Dove Award--Christian music’s highest honor—for her participation in the “Special Event Album Of The Year”—for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, for which her dramatically charged song Lion was a centerpiece.

CRW Magazine has named Rebecca to the list of the “50 Most Influential People in Contemporary Music.” Her book, “Wait For Me,” now in a 9th printing reached the #1 spot on the prestigious CBA (Young Adult) book chart in 2003, with Rebecca’s passionate, and often controversial, challenge to young people to “stand strong” with her on issues of sexual purity. She closed out 2004 with the much anticipated release of her new book, “SHE,”on Tyndale. An impactful “where the rubber meets the road guidebook,” for women of her generation, in “SHE” Rebecca gives a controversial and impassioned voice for a modern womanhood based on a return to biblical principles. The “teen” edition of the book—SHE TEEN—launched in September of ’05—quickly reaching #1 on the CBA Young Adult Chart. Her latest album If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something released in November of ’05 from EMI. One of the most anticipated albums in recent Christian Music history, it contains Rebecca’s trademarked passion for unique self-written music—from rock and pop to symphony—her first full on studio album in five years If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something sonically embraces her passionate lyrics of devotion and praise to God.

January of 2006 found Rebecca in Rwanda, Africa for on the ground mission work and the filming of a television special in her role as a global spokes person for Compassion International. She co-hosted the 2006 Dove Awards presented in Nashville in April and in May of last year gave a prestigious special performance for President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, D.C.

With the opening of 2007, Rebecca St. James is in March launching the much anticipated Worship Revolution Tour with fellow international Christian rock band Delirious?"

Rebecca at the Dove Awards.

I went to her Christmas concert last December that was 10 minutes from my house and it was sweet. I love her accent!!!!!

CDs:

Pray-1998

Pray

Ok

Give Myself Away

Hold Me Jesus

I'll Carry You

Come Quickly Lord

Peace

Mirror

Lord You're Beautiful

Love to Love You

Omega

Transform-2000

Intro

For the Love of God

Reborn

Don't Worry

Merciful

One

Universe

Wait for Me

In Me

Lean On

All Around Me

Stand

My Hope

Worship God-2002

Let My Words Be Few
Song of Love
Breathe
God of Wonders

Lamb of God

Above All

Better Is One Day

Quiet You With My Love

More Than The Watchmen

It Is Well

You
Omega Remix

Wait For Me: The Best From Rebecca St. James-2003

I Thank You

Expressions of Your Love
God
Pray
Mirror
Wait For Me
Yes, I Believe in God
Song of Love
Speak to Me
Here I Am
Stand
Reborn
Lamb of God
Go and Sin No More
Until Your Love Broke Through
A Cradle Prayer
Breathe

Psalm 139

Live Worship: Blessed Be Your Name-2004

Lamb of God

Blessed Be Your Name
Quiet You With My Love
Let My Words Be Few

I Adore You
Above All
Here I Am To Worship
The Power of Your Love

If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something-2005

God Help Me

Alive
You Are Loved
Shadowlands

Love Being Loved By You

I Need You

Beautiful Stranger

Thank You (Featuring tobyMac) ----->
Take All Of Me
Forgive Me (Featuring BarlowGirl)
I Can Trust You
Lest I Forget

aLive in Florida-2007 *CD/DVD*

Intro

God Help Me

Lamb of God

Wait For Me

You Are Loved (Acoustic)
Beautiful Stranger
Reborn

Thank You (Featuring Joel)

Without Love (Joel and Luke Smallbone-her brothers)

Lion

Take All of Me

Blessed Be Your Name
Forgive Me

Alive

You Are Loved (hisboyelroy's funk house mix)

Singles:

Lion (From Music Inspired By The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)-2005

America

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Rebecca has also done some acting and was in Unidentified, Left Behind and !HERO: The Rock Opera among a few other minor roles in movies.

(above) Rebecca posing for If I Had One Chance

To Tell You Something cover

(right) Rebecca at her Christmas concert in Nashville

Shawn McDonald

I started
listening to
Shawn McDonald
a few months ago
after hearing
'Gravity'
on the radio.
I bought his songs
'Gravity' and
'Take my Hand'
(from Simply Nothing)
on iTunes in June and I still haven't gotten
tired of them. 'Take my Hand' is actually my
favorite of the two. His first album, Simply
Nothing, was released in 2004.

I love how he plays the acoustic guitar and sings. His voice is great. I also bought Live in Seattle in July, and he sounds just as good in concert. He has 4 CDs out along with several singles. His music is ideal for fans of pop praise with a strong acoustic emphasis.

Coming from a recent past of drugs and alcohol, jail time, and dropping out of college, this is amazing and could only be because of God. To read an interview about his past, go to:

http://www.christianitytoday.com.au/music/interviews/2004/shawnmcdonald-0904.html

His testimony is also on his website.

Shawn married Kate, older sister of Christian recording artist, Bethany Dillon, on May 28, 2005. He has a son, Cohen, who was born on March 29th, 2007.

Shawn and Cohen




Shawn's new CD:


You can buy it on iTunes (comes with "Greed" music video- like the best song) or at a local store that sells CDs. This CD is awesome!!!!!! Clarity, Shadowlands, and Greed are definitely the best. His stuff on this CD is way better than Ripen or Scattered Pieces LIVE......definitely a return to his "roots"-- his 1st CD. Check it out- the acoustic guitar is awesome, esp. on the 3 aforementioned songs.

Tobymac

Tobymac is one of my top favorite artists. I've been listening to his music for about 4 years. I have all 5 of his CDs: Momentum, Re:Mix Momentum, Welcome to Diverse City, Renovating --> Diverse City, and Portable Sounds. His real name is Toby McKeehan. He is from Northern Virginia and his wife is from Jamaica and her name is Amanda. He has five kids: Truett (truDog), Moses and Marlee (who are twins and adopted), Leo, and Judah.

His son, Truett, is nicknamed truDog and has sung on every one of his albums.

I'm saw him in concert on the 15th of September at Awakening Fest!!!!!!!!!! It was so awesome. I got to stand in the front row right in front of the stage and I got some pictures.

Toby with his boys, Truett &

Moses

CDs:

Momentum
Get This Party Started
What's Goin' Down
Irene
Toby's Mac
J Train
Do You Know
Tru-Dog
Momentum
Yours
Quiet Storm
Wonderin' Why
Triple Skinny
Love Is In The House
Extreme Days
Don't Bring Me Down
In The Air
Afterword

Re:Mix Momentum
J Train: Math Remix
Yours: Savage Remix
Somebody's Watching: Painter Remix
Irene: Marvin Remix
Tru Dog: Savage Remix
Love Is In The House: NW Remix
Get This Party Started: Ghost Remix
Extreme Days: Shoc Remix
Momentum: Beatmart Remix
Do You Know: McAnany Remix
J Train: Linney Brothers
Yours: Linney Remix
Irene: The Binary Twin Remix
Love Is In The House: Muckala Remix

Welcome to Diverse City

Hey Now
Catchafire (Whoopsi Daisy)

Slam

Poetically Correct

Atmosphere

Gone

truDog, the Return

Diverse City

Stories (Down to the Bottom)

Getaway Car

Burn for You

Fresher than a Night at the W

Ill-M-I
Phenomenon

Gotta Go

Atmosphere (remix with dcTalk)

Renovating --> Diverse City

Getaway Car (Jazzadelic Freemix)

The Slam (D Dubb Remix)

Diverse City (Club-A-Dub Remix)

Burn for You (Shortwave Radio Mix)

Hey Now (D Dubb Remix)

Phenomenon (Blanco e Chegro Mix)

Gone (Long Gone Remix)

Intruding Again

Catchafire (White Rabbit Mix)

Ill-M-I (Dutch Remix)

Atmosphere (Ambiente Mix)

West Coast Kid

Burn for You (Cat Paw Remix)

Portable Sounds

One World (with Siti Monroe)

Made to Love

Boomin'/ Opera Trip Interlude

I'm for You

Face of the Earth/ Chuck @ Artist Development

No Ordinary Love (with Nirva Dorsaint-Ready)

Ignition

Hype Man (truDog '07)

Suddenly

All In (Letting Go)/ Mr. Talkbox Interlude

Feelin' So Fly

No Signal

Lose My Soul/ Afterparty (with Kirk Franklin and Mandisa)

3 of Tobymac's kids: Truett, Moses and Marlee

more pics to come......