Phil Wickham

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风格: #当代基督　#福音
地区: United States of America 美国

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出生在基督徒的家庭，Phil Wickham自小便懂得了信仰的意义。小学六年级的时候他第一次拿起吉他，几个月之后，他开始尝试写歌。12岁那年，他被牧师推荐成为青少年团契敬拜的带领者。他说，"The Lord just really started blessing [the worship] with the junior high group."

19岁那年Phil Wickham出版了他的首张CD，Give You My World，其中包括上榜曲目“Shining"。这张专辑出人意料的饱受好评，让Phil Wickham受到激励，并着手写他的12首新歌，之后在2006年4月发行。

现在，Phil Wickham带着他的音乐访问全世界的教会。06年秋，他与MercyMe以及Audio Adrenaline举行了巡演“Coming Up To Breathe"。07年秋，他与The David Crowder Band以及The Myriad举行了巡演。

Biography

Early Years

Wickham was raised in a Christian home, the second of three children (brother Evan, sister Jillian), but after feeling the need to "make his faith his own" he began leading worship for his youth group at 12 years old. He graduated from Calvary Christian School in Vista, California in 2002.Wickham's father is currently a worship leader, and both of his parents were at one time members of a Jesus movement band and his older brother Evan Wickham is also a musician. His parents, John and Lisa, encouraged Wickham to learn popular praise songs and to write his own.[8] Wickham began his full-time music career by touring California and recording his first album.On November 2, 2008, Wickham married his long time girlfriend, Mallory Plotnik, another student from Calvary Christian school.

Albums

After releasing his independent album, Give You My World in 2003,[3] Wickham signed with Simple Records. Wickham released his self-titled label debut in 2006.Wickham's second release with Simple/INO Records, Cannons, was released in 2007. Cannons was inspired by cannon explosions and C.S. Lewis's book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from The Chronicles of Narnia series. Wickham stated in an interview with ChristianityToday.com that the album is "about how the universe is exploding with the glory of God, and how we are compelled to join in with its song."The 10th track from Cannons, "Jesus Lord of Heaven",[9] has been translated into seven different languages. On August 8, 2008 Wickham released a live worship album titled singalong, recorded at Solid Rock Church in Portland, Oregon with 3000 fans present. The album was released as a free download, only available from his website, and received over 8,000 downloads within a week of being released. After the release of his singalong album, his self-titled debut climbed to No. 25 on iTunes Top Christian Albums chart (2 years after its initial release).

On Thursday, April 17, 2009 during a concert with fellow christian artist Charlie Hall at Calvary Church of Santa Ana, California, Mr. Wickham stated that he was currently in the studio recording a new record. He gave no further information beyond that.

Tours

Wickham visits churches across the world to play his music. From the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2007, he toured on the "Coming Up to Breathe" tour with MercyMe and Audio Adrenaline.

In the fall of 2007, he toured on the Remedy tour with The David Crowder Band and The Myriad.

In the fall of 2008, Phil had his first headlining tour, with support acts Fee and Meredith Andrews.

Road Mangager: Daniel Duarte-Gonzales

FOH Engineer: Daniel Duarte-Gonzales

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