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It’s one thing to say Rachael Lampa was a young artist. It’s another to realize she released a greatest hits compilation by the time she was 21.

Country superstar Jo Dee Messina stopped by the CCM Magazine offices to talk about her 'Reckless Love' cover, faith, her health and more!

Gawvi’s musical pursuits are plentiful these days, but as he traces his backstory, it begins with a search for something to do—a pastor’s kid stuck inside an empty church waiting for another adults-only meeting to end.

The world can be a dark, confusing, hopeless place, but music has a way of getting through the cracks to illuminate all the beauty and hope that still exists. Songs that live in the balance of joy and pain are exactly where folk-pop duo Jenny & Tyler excel, maybe because everything they craft is rooted in a love story.

Experience is a powerful teacher. It's the substance that gives a great vocalist the weight and gravitas to make an audience feel as much as he does. For Russ Taff, every splinter of pain and every hard-won ounce of hope surfaces each time he launches into a song. And that's what makes his new album Believe—the legendary artist's very first praise and worship album—such a powerful vehicle for spreading the gospel.

Multi-award winning artist Francesca Battistelli will release 'Own It,' her first album in four years, on October 26, 2018. Francesca gave friends, family, and select media a preview of the new album this week in Nashville. Following the event, we sat down with her to discuss why it took 4 years, her family and what the future holds.

Nikki Leonti is referring to Reunite CCM, a one-night, SoCal-based event in early November that brings together several favorite female vocalists in recent contemporary Christian music history—names like Stacie Orrico, Crystal Lewis, Rachael Lampa and, of course, Leonti herself.

by Matt Conner For the last 12 years, Matthew West has enjoyed the presence of an actual Dove Award sitting on a shelf somewhere in his house. The little-known anecdote is that it didn’t actually belong to...

On the verge of another album release from Chris Tomlin, Holy Roar, we wanted to dig deep into the past catalog for some of our favorite deep cuts—before we’re all appropriately distracted once again by an exciting new batch of songs.

For our first Pardon the Introduction, we’re excited to feature The Gray Havens. Dave and Licia Radford, a husband/wife duo from Illinois, blend indie folk sensibilities and gorgeous pop soundscapes, but it’s the depth of their songwriting and storytelling that’s especially noteworthy.