Song:Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Album:How Great Is Our God: The Essential Collection
Chris Tomlin is one of today's most popular CCM artists. This probably started with the 2006 album See The Morning and this contemporary version of Amazing Grace. Tomlin has won many Dove awards. He was born May 4, 1972 in Grand Saline, TX which is east of Dallas. He learned to play guitar playing along with Willie Nelson records. Tomlin became a Christian at age nine. He was studying medicine at Texas A&M and he became leader of the campus Christian group Breakaway. After graduating in 1994 with a degree in psychology, Tomlin led various worship groups until he founded Passion Conferences with Louie Giglio of Choice Ministries. After releasing an album independently, Tomlin signed with EMI's Sparrow label in 1998. Tomlin and Giglio started their own sixstepsrecords in 2000 distributed by EMI and he's been very successful since then. His first number one CCM hit was the 2005 single How Great Is Our God from the 2004 album Arriving. That album was certified Platinum and so was the 2006 album See The Morning. This contemporary arrangement of Amazing Grace reached #2 on the CCM Singles chart. Tomlin and Giglio wrote additional lyrics. This and several CCM recordings appeared in the 2006 Michael Apted film Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd. This album is available as a budget CD. But I suggest this comp for an intro to Tomlin's music. Tomlin has won many Dove awards but he also won a Grammy for the 2012 album And If Our God Is For Us... His latest CD Holy Roar was released in 2018 and he recently released a live version of that album. He will be touring this fall. He appears at local churches and he also plays arenas as Worship Night in America. Tomlin and Giglio own Passion City Church in Atlanta. Here's the video for Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) by Chris Tomlin.
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