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ABOUT AUDREY ASSAD
Piano-driven, soulful and inspired by literature as much as music, Audrey Assad is a unique personality in the professional music scene.
Audrey’s compositions draw from a spring of varied sources and encompass both the spiritual and secular. Her music is focused on portraying a realistic picture of spiritual life, including all its triumphs, trials and tribulations.
As a result, Audrey peppers her lyrics with references to sources both inside and outside the Catholic faith to which she belongs, including folk music, poetry and literature, along with theologians and authors such as CS Lewis and Tolstoy.
Born in 1983, Audrey started playing music at a young age. After writing and performing her own songs for several years, Audrey recorded the Firefly EP in 2008 after moving to Nashville and pursuing a professional music career. She signed with Sparrow Records shortly afterwards, and released the critically and commercially successful The House You’re Building in 2010.
The album earned Audrey a Dove Award Nomination in 2011, along with the iTunes Christian Breakthrough Album award in 2010.
Audrey released her second album under Sparrow, Heart, in 2012. Combined withThe House You're Building, Audrey's records sold more than 100,000 copies.
After a fruitful relationship, Audrey and Sparrow parted ways in 2013. Motivated by a desire to write music specifically for the church, Audrey launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund her first independent record. With a target of $40,000, the campaign reached $80,000 after a month a testament to the loyal fan base which continues to follow her unique blend of insightful, spiritual compositions.
Fortunate Fall was the outcome of that campaign.
ABOUT BELLARIVE
Impulse. Signal. Tremor. Proof.
The fleeting moment of a heartbeat serves so many purposes. It’s an impulse the body sends, a signal of activity, a tremor starting the work, a proof of life.
It’s something we humans rarely think about, but are in constant search of -- within ourselves, within our relationships with each other, even within our interaction with forces unseen.
If we can find that heartbeat...attune ourselves to its rhythm...discover what it says to us...we are made that much more complete.
The six young people who have come together to form the worship band Bellarive understand that search. They have experienced, and now present, The Heartbeat.
Making it to this point -- presenting an album of original material to the world -- isn’t something that was an initial goal of the six members of Bellarive.
“This whole thing is fairly new for us,” says Sean Curran, the group’s lead vocalist, keyboardist and principal songwriter. “We met at our home church and felt like kindred spirits pretty quickly.
“We felt like God was doing something in our hearts and in our community, so we just embarked on this journey to try to figure out what exactly that vision was.”
It would be some time after their initial coming-together in the summer of 2009 that Curran, Melissa Mage (vocals, percussion), her brother Mike Mage (programming, vocals, guitar), Zach Glotfelty (lead guitar), Josh Luker (bass, percussion) and Kenny Werner (drums) would recognize that their common interests and abilities were leading them to become a band.
“We were leading worship a lot together but hadn’t really looked past that,” Sean says. “We started getting these opportunities and God began to place these song ideas on our hearts, so we started meeting up once a week just to figure out what we should do with all this.
“We’d sit around the dinner table fellowshipping, talking about it, dreaming out loud and songs just started to be birthed out of those times,” he continues. “It was an easy transition; we had songs and we had an EP we’d recorded on our own because these songs were connecting
with our church. All these things lined up over the course of a summer, so we sat down and finally said, ‘I think we’re a band now.’
“It’s been very much seeking after the will of God and letting that be the focus, and then seeing the opportunities come and making sure they’re God-driven, and then stepping into them and seeing where they lead us.”