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His music a cross between '70s-style light rock and orchestrated pop, Steven Curtis Chapman has been one of the most prominent performers of contemporary Christian music since the '80s. Born and raised in Paducah, KY, Chapman learned to play several instruments while hanging out in his father's music store, excelling at guitar and piano. As a young man, he enrolled as a pre-med student at Anderson College in Indiana. He soon decided to pursue a music career and dropped out to go to Nashville, where he began working in a music show at Opryland USA. When not performing, he was busy writing songs, a skill he learned from his father. One of Chapman's tunes was recorded by the Imperials, a prominent gospel group, marking the beginning of his songwriting success; many of gospel and country's brightest stars, including Sandi Patti, Billy Dean, Glen Campbell, and Roger Whittaker, have gone on to record Chapman's songs.

Although several different labels and music publishers were interested in him by 1987, he decided to sign with the major Christian music company Sparrow. That year he cut his first album, First Hand. The first single released from the album, "Weak Days," made it to number two on the contemporary Christian chart. His second album, 1988's Real Life Conversations, earned him four more hits, including the number one song "His Eyes." Co-written with James Isaac Elliott, it earned the Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year award from the Gospel Music Association in 1989. That year, he also won a GMA award for Best Songwriter of the Year. Released later that year, his third album, More to This Life, contained four number one hits and in 1990 earned him an unprecedented ten nominations at the GMA Awards (he won five). His next album, For the Sake of the Call, which contained five number one singles and earned him another slew of GMA awards and his first Grammy in the Best Pop Gospel Album category, only strengthened his position as the king of Christian music.

In 1992, Chapman made a successful bid to attract a more mainstream audience with The Great Adventure, which also won a Grammy, and its accompanying title track video. When Sparrow Records was purchased by EMI/Liberty, they began marketing the album in discount stores, and in 1993, it went gold. Also released in 1993 (both as a video and CD), The Live Adventure won more GMA awards and also earned Chapman a new award from American Songwriter magazine, Songwriter and Artist of the Year. Chapman released his seventh album, Heaven in the Real World, in 1994 and embarked on a major tour. In 1996, Chapman released Signs of Life, which was followed three years later by Speechless. Though Chapman's albums had always done well on the Billboard CCM charts, in 2001, after the release of Declaration, he really began to get even more attention on the Top 200. Both it and 2002's All About Love peaked in the Top 15, and his 2004 record All Things New made it to number 22. In September 2005, in time for the holiday season, Chapman released All I Really Want for Christmas, and the following year Musical Blessing came out.~ Sandra Brennan, All Music GuideMore

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Lord Of The Dance (The Walk DVD Video Chapter)
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Let Us Pray (The Walk DVD Video Chapter)
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All About Love (Concept Video)
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Fan Comments

Nov 7th, 9:30pm
beautiful music... u capture the heart and emotions of what fellow believers feel and think...thanks and God bless you man!
Sep 27th, 6:31am
I ALMOST CRIED LISTENING 2 CINDERELLA!! I LOVE IT KEEP UP I LOVE YOUR MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mar 15th, 9:08pm
I love cinderella
Nov 13th, 12:42pm
can any one say how to download this song fom imeem?
Nov 8th, 2:01am
Deeply sorry about your lost, I lost my mom last year! so in my heart I feel we had an angel up there ...best blessings from Costa Rica!
Nov 1st, 11:20pm
thank you steven for making such great and inspiring music!!
Oct 25th, 9:06am Last edited Oct 28th, 3:04pm.
Praise the Lord
i like steven curtis chapman........God has given a wonderful voice to him.
Oct 3rd, 5:50am
I would love to see the song, "With Hope" posted here on imeem.com! Thank you!