I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang church music between sips at my bottle, you know? I sat on the piano bench next to my mother. She was the church organist, so that music is deeply inside of me.
I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
Lecrae is not just, you know, church, church, church.
My father started me singing in church.
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
I started singing when I was a little kid. I was about nine when we had a group with my four brothers. We sang spirituals. The old regular thing.
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.
I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.
I fell in love with music at the age of four, and I remember my grandmother being on the piano teaching me some church songs, some primary songs.
I started out in gospel music. A lot of people don't know that I started out in gospel music, and I've never lost sight of it.
Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.
The whole musical institution of the church involves a lot of different styles of communication at the same time. Things like call and response. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.
I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.
My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.
[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.
