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Cross My Heart (1994)
Cross My Heart is the debut studio album by Christian singer -songwriter Greg Long . It was released by Myrrh Records and Pakaderm Records with distribution by Word Records on June 15, 1994. Cross My Heart combines a mix of pop and adult contemporary sounds with production by John and Dino Elefante, who are best known for producing Petra since the mid 1980s. Released on the Elefante brothers Christian Rock label Pakaderm, it was one of the last releases under that label as
Joel Caballero
Apr 42 min read


Greg Long
Gregory Alan Long (born December 12, 1966) is an American Contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter from South Dakota. Long was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He began singing at his father's revivals when he was a child. Long grew up in a strict Christian home where he listened to mainly Christian and Gospel artists, although he sometimes listens to some secular acts. Long's parents had a traveling evangelistic ministry that he jokingly refer to as "a sort-of Chri
Joel Caballero
Apr 32 min read


Testify to Love: The Very Best of Avalon (2003)
Testify to Love: The Very Best of Avalon is an official compilation album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on March 25, 2003 by Sparrow Records. This is Avalon's first collection containing 12 of their number one Christian AC hits from their first four albums including the title track from A Maze of Grace , a song that was number one for six weeks. Also included are three brand new tracks: "Everything to Me," "New Day" and "Pray," with the first two songs relea
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Apr 24 min read


Oxygen (2001) (Avalon album)
Oxygen is the fifth studio album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on May 22, 2001 by Sparrow Records. The album was produced by Brown Bannister. This is the final studio album with member Cheri Paliotta (now Adams). Oxygen is considered one of Avalon's most successful albums with six singles released to Christian radio and all hitting number one on all formats: CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio), AC (Adult Contemporary) and INSP (Inspirational or Inspo). Two of thos
Joel Caballero
Mar 303 min read


O2: Avalon Remixed (2002)
O2: Avalon Remixed is an official remix album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on March 26, 2002 by Sparrow Records. Released concurrently with their 2001 album Oxygen , Avalon released a remix album of track favorites and their number one Christian AC hits, remixed by the top DJ's and also special remixes featuring CCM groups: ZOEgirl on "Testify to Love" (New Birth Mix), Out of Eden on "Make It Last Forever" (Millenneyum Mix) and The Katinas on "A Maze of Gr
Joel Caballero
Mar 303 min read


Joy: A Christmas Collection (2000)
Joy: A Christmas Collection is the fourth studio and Christmas album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on September 26, 2000 by Sparrow Records. The album was produced by Brown Bannister. Avalon's Christmas release contains a mix of originals, holiday favorites and modern covers like Céline Dion's "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day," Mariah Carey's "Jesus, Born On This Day" and David Meece 's signature song "We Are the Reason." Avalon also records a new arrang
Joel Caballero
Mar 292 min read


In a Different Light (1999)
In a Different Light is the third studio album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on March 23, 1999 by Sparrow Records. In the group's first change, it is the first album with group member Cheri Paliotta (now Adams), who replaced Nikki Hassman-Anders and it is also Avalon's first time working with producer Brown Bannister. The line-up stayed like this for the next two albums. Like their previous albums, In a Different Light produced four more number one songs on
Joel Caballero
Mar 292 min read


A Maze of Grace (1997)
A Maze of Grace is the second studio album by the Christian vocal group Avalon , released on December 26, 1997 by Sparrow Records. The album was produced by Charlie Peacock and Christopher Harris. Released exactly one year after their self-titled debut album , A Maze of Grace continues Avalon's mix of upbeat pop songs and ballads. It is considered a breakthrough album, due in part to its lead single "Testify to Love." The lyrics focus on the idea that every part of creatio
Joel Caballero
Mar 283 min read


Avalon (1996)
Avalon is the self-titled debut studio album by the Christian vocal group Avalon . It was released on December 26, 1996 by Sparrow Records and was produced by musician Charlie Peacock . Their self-titled debut album catapulted the quartet into the Christian music scene showcasing their vocals and four-part harmonies. It contains their first 4 number one songs: "Give It Up," "Picture Perfect World" and "This Love" on the Christian AC chart and "The Greatest Story" on the Chri
Joel Caballero
Mar 282 min read


Avalon Worship
Avalon Worship (also known as Avalon ) is an American contemporary Christian vocal quartet that was formed in 1995 in Nashville, Tennessee after Norman Miller of Proper Management took the idea of beginning a vocal group to Grant Cunningham, A&R Director at Sparrow Records. Cunningham attended an artist showcase in Nashville where he heard singer Michael Passons and made him the first Avalon member. Former Truth vocalist and South Carolina native Janna Potter (later Janna Lo
Joel Caballero
Mar 274 min read


Lady Wisdom (2026)
Lady Wisdom is the 17th studio album by the Christian female vocal trio Point of Grace . It was released on March 27, 2026 by Word/Curb Records. Lady Wisdom marked the return of Point of Grace with their first album of new original material in over 14 years. Their last album of original songs was A Thousand Little Things in 2012. The trio has since released a series of cover albums ( Directions Home , Beautiful Name and Turn Your Eyes ) and their 2017 Christmas album Sing
Joel Caballero
Mar 272 min read


You Light Up My Life: Greatest Inspirational Songs (2001)
You Light Up My Life: Greatest Inspirational Songs is a compilation album by American singer Debby Boone . It was released on April 3, 2001 by Curb Records. This collection focuses on Boone's work in the Christian and inspirational music genres, which she became heavily involved in following her mainstream success in the late 1970s. While she is most famous for her 1977 pop hit "You Light Up My Life," she famously interpreted the song as a tribute to God, which set the tone f
Joel Caballero
Mar 252 min read


Home for Christmas (1989) (Debby Boone Christmas album)
Home for Christmas is the 11th studio and Christmas album by American singer Debby Boone , originally released in the fall of 1989 by Lamb & Lion/Benson Records. The album was produced by Dan Posthuman and Boone's husband Gabriel Ferrer. This was Boone's second album release of 1989 (Boone released her hymns album Be Thou My Vision earlier that year) and her final recording of the 1980s as she was focusing on her acting career in television and on stage throughout the 1990s
Joel Caballero
Mar 232 min read


Be Thou My Vision: Great Hymns of Faith (1989)
Be Thou My Vision: Great Hymns of Faith is the tenth studio and fifth Christian album by American singer Debby Boone , originally released in 1989 by Lamb & Lion/Benson Records. The album was produced by Dan Posthuman and Boone's husband Gabriel Ferrer. The tracks were arranged by Ron Huff. This is Boone's first release of 1989 (her second 1989 release is her Christmas album Home for Christmas ) and her final album of Christian oriented material, which consisted of well-know
Joel Caballero
Mar 222 min read


Friends for Life (1987)
Friends for Life is the ninth studio and fourth Christian album by American singer Debby Boone , released around April 1987 by Lamb & Lion Records with distribution by Benson Records. The album was produced by Michael Omartian and Dan Posthuma. Friends for Life returns Boone to her adult contemporary sound and leaving behind the polished pop of her previous album Choose Life . Boone, once again teams with Michael and Stormie Omartian composing, writing and producing and wit
Joel Caballero
Mar 212 min read


Choose Life (1985)
Choose Life is the eighth studio and third Christian music album by American singer Debby Boone , released around February 1985 by Lamb & Lion/Sparrow Records. For this album, Boone worked with the husband-and-wife musicians and songwriters Michael and Stormie Omartian to update her sound. Michael produced, composed and did the song arrangements and wife Stormie wrote the first eight tracks. Boone even tried her hand at songwriting as she co-wrote the track "Song of Delivera
Joel Caballero
Mar 212 min read


Surrender (1983)
Surrender is the seventh studio album by American singer Debby Boone . It was released around October 1983 by Lamb & Lion Records with distribution by Sparrow Records. The album was produced by Brown Bannister. In early 1981, Boone released her last mainstream country album Savin' It Up , which contained two minor singles, "Perfect Fool" and "It'll Be Him." After that release, Boone focused on Christian music again with Surrender . It served as a proper follow-up to her firs
Joel Caballero
Mar 213 min read


With My Song (1980)
With My Song is the fifth solo album by American singer Debby Boone . It was Boone's second album of 1980 and was released around June of that year, a couple of months after she released her mainstream country album Love Has No Reason . When album sales of her previous mainstream albums were down and not enough radio airplay in either pop or country, Boone retreated to Christian music, where she would have more success in that genre in subsequent releases throughout the 1980
Joel Caballero
Mar 202 min read


You Light Up My Life (1977)
You Light Up My Life is the solo debut album by American singer Debby Boone . Released by Curb Records and Warner Bros. Records in the fall of 1977, Boone needed to quickly assemble her first album, due to the success of the title song topping the Billboard 100 chart. "You Light Up My Life" is a song taken from the 1977 motion picture of the same name, but Boone's recording was not on the film's soundtrack. The vocals for the soundtrack was recorded by American vocalist Kas
Joel Caballero
Mar 193 min read


Debby Boone
Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life," which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which g
Joel Caballero
Mar 185 min read
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