Steven Curtis Chapman

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 CCM得奖之王、歌坛巨星Steven Curtis Chapman，曾连创7张全美专辑榜冠军，并得到4座葛莱美最佳专辑大奖的肯定。在1995年出版的「Music of Christmas」专辑中和CeCe Winans合唱的圣诞新创曲 "Christmas in All in the Heart"，在当时创下排行榜佳绩。他的前一张专辑两年前曾经进入过Billboard 200排行榜的前20名，2002年的《All About Love》在发行之后以5万1千张的销量名列排行榜的第12位。
Steven Curtis Chapman一直致力于帮助世界孤儿，他创办的Shaohannah's Hope是一间致力于世界孤儿问题的机构。Steven及其太太Mary Beth一直支持Shaohannah's Hope的发展，他们先后从中国孤儿院领养的三个中国儿童。去年他探访了香港保良局总局与“母亲的抉择”两个社会福利团体，并来到北京在央视上表演。
为了让更多的中国观众感受到他的歌声和爱心，EMI公司特意为他选了两首中国观众熟悉的歌曲重新演绎，一首张学友的《祝福》、”The Blessings”，Steven重新填词，真情地演绎,倾注了他对全世界孤儿的爱心和祝福。另一首七十年代加拿大民谣女歌手Joni Mitchell的作品《The Circle Game》，当时香港歌手陈美龄因翻唱这首英文歌而红遍香港。此次Chapman的版本更为独具匠心，他的英文演唱和中国儿童合唱团中文伴唱浑然一体。
专辑中的其他歌曲也都是Steven Curtis Chapman的原创作品，收录了他多年来一些经典之作：选自1996年“Signs Of Life”专辑的《Celebrate You》，选自1999年“Speechless”专辑的《Dive》、《When Love Takes You In》，选自2004年“All Things New”专辑的《Please Only You》等他的老歌新作。他的歌声总是感动无数人的心，他希望通过音乐让更多的人分享到爱和永恒的真理。
2006年5月20日，Steven Curtis Chapmann在结束中国领养计划后，将与其轻摇滚乐队在上海举办一场慈善音乐会，用心用情来现场演绎其对领养经验为主题而创作的一系列歌曲。用音乐将“跨越国界的爱”表达的淋漓尽致。
His music a cross between 70s-style light rock and orchestrated pop, Steven Curtis Chapman has been one of the most prominent performers of contemporary Christian music since the 80s. Born and raised in Paducah, KY, Chapman learned to play several instruments while hanging out in his fathers music store, excelling at guitar and piano. As a young man, he enrolled as a pre-med student at Anderson College in Indiana. He soon decided to pursue a music career and dropped out to go to Nashville, where he began working in a music show at Opryland USA. When not performing, he was busy writing songs, a skill he learned from his father. One of Chapmans tunes was recorded by the Imperials, a prominent gospel group, marking the beginning of his songwriting success; many of gospel and countrys brightest stars, including Sandi Patti, Billy Dean, Glen Campbell, and Roger Whittaker, have gone on to record Chapmans songs.
Although several different labels and music publishers were interested in him by 1987, he decided to sign with the major Christian music company Sparrow. That year he cut his first album, First Hand. The first single released from the album, Weak Days, made it to number two on the contemporary Christian chart. His second album, 1988s Real Life Conversations, earned him four more hits, including the number one song His Eyes. Co-written with James Isaac Elliott, it earned the Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year award from the Gospel Music Association in 1989. That year, he also won a GMA award for Best Songwriter of the Year. Released later that year, his third album, More to This Life, contained four number one hits and in 1990 earned him an unprecedented ten nominations at the GMA Awards (he won five). His next album, For the Sake of the Call, which contained five number one singles and earned him another slew of GMA awards and his first Grammy in the Best Pop Gospel Album category, only strengthened his position as the king of Christian music.
In 1992, Chapman made a successful bid to attract a more mainstream audience with The Great Adventure, which also won a Grammy, and its accompanying title track video. When Sparrow Records was purchased by EMI/Liberty, they began marketing the album in discount stores, and in 1993, it went gold. Also released in 1993 (both as a video and CD), The Live Adventure won more GMA awards and also earned Chapman a new award from American Songwriter magazine, Songwriter and Artist of the Year. Chapman released his seventh album, Heaven in the Real World, in 1994 and embarked on a major tour. In 1996, Chapman released Signs of Life, which was followed three years later by Speechless. Though Chapmans albums had always done well on the Billboard CCM charts, in 2001, after the release of Declaration, he really began to get even more attention on the Top 200. Both it and 2002s All About Love peaked in the Top 15, and his 2004 record All Things New made it to number 22. In September 2005, in time for the holiday season, Chapman released All I Really Want for Christmas, and the following year Musical Blessing came out.