Music:
Member Since: 29/11/2006
Band Members: Rick Redmond ministers as an itinerant worship leader, song- writer, amateur recording artist, aspiring author, local church consultant and Bible teacher. He has experience as a local church worship pastor at the full-time level as well as an on-going leadership role in the student worship ministry of the Moody Theological Seminary (Moody Bible Institute) in Chicago. Rick currently serves and various leadership roles in the worship ministry of New Life Community Church in Chicago, one of the most diverse and fastest growing, multi-site church ministries in America. He virtually grew up in local church worship ministry under parents who were professional musicians, worship/music directors and music instructors which included many years on the road with itinerant music ministry. Rick's lifelong involvement in the music industry and music ministry allows him to draw from a wide and rich range of musical and ministerial experience. He possesses a passion to produce original music through which the Lord can vitally impact and even transform the listener "right where they are." Pastor Rick also brings his intense commitment to both cultural and generational "unity within diversity," and as he seeks to produce music that resonates with people of all cultures, ages and walks of life. He ministers as an anointed Bible teacher and aspiring author, who loves teaching the Word and exploring the worship experience as it is discovered in the Scriptures and in the lives of Bible characters. Rick is currently completing a devotional commentary to that end, which will compliment his currently unfinished recording project, aptly and simply titled, Defining Moments In Worship. He is also writing a book that that teaches worship leaders and pastors the essential characteristics of a healthy and very productive local church worship ministries. Rick is a veteran of the US Navy as well as the US Army Reserve. He received his formal education at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago where he continues graduate seminary studies at this time.
You can contact Rick by
e-mailing your request and information to [email protected]. You can call Pastor Rick personally at (708) 362-9885.
Influences: "I naturally want to say that Christ has been the one, single greatest influence on my music. Very early in my life, I had a strong sense of what it felt like when the Holy Spirit really moves upon the heart through a song. Since those early experiences, my quest has been for the Lord to reproduce that same experience for others in my own music."
Christian Influences: In CCM, Michael English, Russ Taff, Dallas Holm, Wayne Watson, Larnelle Harris, Steve Green, Michael Card and Israel Houghton.
In Gospel, Donnie McClurkin, Smokie Norful, BeBe Winans and Fred Hammond and Ron Kenoly.
In Southern Gospel, Bill Gaither, Kenny and Ronnie Hinson, Rusty Goodman and the Goodman family, Dottie Rambo, John Starnes, Squire Parsons and Jimmy Swaggart.
Secular influences: In Soul and R & B, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Ray Charles, Michael McDonald, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Winwood, James Ingram, Luther Vandross, George Benson, Joe Cocker and Lionel Ritchie.
In Pop, Steve Perry, David Pack, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Lou Graham, Elton John, Robert Palmer, Bruce Hornsby and James Taylor.
In Country, Keith Whitley, George Strait, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Marty Robbins, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs and Eddie Rabbit.
Sounds Like: "Spiritual Nourishment in the form of Music!"
"As a singer and writer, I suppose I'm a bit of a Mut. I've at least been told that I sound like a mish-mash of retro Soul/R&B, Gospel, CCM with some Nashville Country and Southern Gospel in there somewhere. I suppose I would probably have to agree with that."
Record Label: Unsigned
