Music Articles
"Heaven is a sweet, maple syrup kiss and a thousand other little things I miss with her gone"
...from "Heaven is the Face"
It"s the little moments in life that are often the most defining---a sticky kiss from a child, a shared prayer, an embrace from an old friend. For more than two decades, Steven Curtis Chapman has celebrated life"s most precious moments in song. The joys and challenges of daily existence reverberate throughout Steven"s music and his songs have become the soundtrack of life for believers everywhere. For Steven, life and music have always been inextricably intertwined. So in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy—the death of his fiveyear- old daughter Maria—Steven did what all songwriters do, he poured the torrent of emotion into his music.
Can a Christian artist be mainstream, achieve stardom success and stay true to his beliefs and integrity or is there some demonic curse that bedazzles any who enter the sacred realm of celebrity status? There are as many answers as there are various artists who experience this differently, e.g. Katy Perry, Lifehouse, P.O.D., Matisyahuh, Bob Dylan…and even Brian “Head” Welch, former Korn member.