Charmaine Champion

Charmaine Champion is a fresh face to the Canadian worship music scene. As a young songwriter and worship leader, she believes strongly in the call on her life to encourage and inspire this generation to truly abandon themselves to Christ. At the tender age of 20, she juggles her busy university schedule with life as a recording artist and her involvement in church ministry—and is passionate about all of these things. “My heart is to see people encounter the presence of the awesome God that I love and serve, and above all, I just want to be real and honest in my worship. I want to keep stretching myself to get out of my comfort zone and push my artistic limits, but my songs will always be birthed out of my own personal worship times. This is truly where the power of the song lies.”
Her debut album Desire, released in June 2007, is a collection of songs that showcases both Charmaine’s strong vocals and her talent as a songwriter. “Recording my songs has been such an amazing process. It has made me realize that when God calls you to something, He can turn distant dreams into reality. And,” Charmaine adds, “He gives the grace to go along with it.” Grace even to carry her on this uncharted path. Though she doesn’t yet know where it will take her, she trusts deeply in the passions God has placed in her heart—most of all, the passion and desire to love Jesus with all that she is. This desire is the fuel behind the music and the voice you will come to love.
“I love living for Him and just sharing life with Him—as messy and confusing as it seems sometimes… those bright high-as-a-kite days when dreams just seem so attainable…and those days when the walls are caving in and the tears won't stopand I have no choice but surrender to His outstretched arms. I love needing Him and letting Him define who I am. And my prayer over the music that I write is that it be one-hundred-percent God-inspired and God-centred… and that He would refine me in the process.”