UPDATE!!!!!!!! Eddie is currently in the studio recording a new song written with Mike Alan Ward (Direks Bentley), and Diana Seminara (De Souza Publishing) a tribute song for a famous sports figure. Eddie is producing MMA fighter and Country rock singer Michael Mandella for a fall release. Eddie is playing the Western Beat Anniversary show on Sept. 12th and a benefit for Taiwan Typhoon victims on the same day both shows will be filmed for airing..........INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BEST GOSPEL!!!!!!!!!!!
Precisely at the moment when America has chosen to embrace the cleansing path of honesty, faith, compassion, peace and hope, Eddie Cunningham's heart-blasting power gospel hit Jesus Is More Than A Name offers up a moving reminder of the role faith can play in our personal and collective transformation.Anyone who has felt broken and at the end of his or her capacity to cope can relate to an anguished cry for help in the dark. When all things human fail us, we call out to the Divine, hoping that our prayers will be answered. This multiple award winning song, sure to become a contemporary Christian classic, reminds us that prayers are not just words, they are an invitation to the Divine to enter our lives and to change them. Through humility and self surrender, we may receive comfort, grace and guidance.Eddie Cunningham is a power gospel singer for the new heart of America. Christians and non-Christians alike will be moved by this song and its message of hope and encouragement. Cunningham's voice is as awesomely beautiful as his message is profound and universal. He sings from the heart and you know he has been there.As certain songs become identified with one particular artist, Jesus Is More Than A Name is Eddie Cunningham's. He owns it with this very personal, passionate and soulful recording of the song he co-wrote with Mike Ward, Ed Berghoff and, from the grave, Gram Parsons.Jesus Is More Than A Name is a beautiful and hope filled gift that one can benefit from receiving again and again in the darkness or in the clear light of day.
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and will be featured on The “Now Hear This†Winners CD compilation will be promoted to more than 800 US & Canadian radio stations in the first quarter and be distributed to 5,000 music fans and industry movers and shakers at SXSW, CMJ, Folk Alliance and other influential music events throughout the year.Eddie Cunningham living the vision -
An innately talented young L.A. boy growing up from Downey to Norwalk to La Puente one day picked up a guitar and was on his way to living the vision.
Elvis & the Beatles began to stir in him a natural song writing & guitar playing gift and the boy Eddie started playing the broom only he played it upside down. Not knowing there was a wrong way to play it, this right handed boy played his chords left handed. One by one these came to him along with learning how to sing other people’s songs. The blessing gave him not only the ability to write and to play but a natural voice as melodiously beautiful as Kenny Loggins and as deeply and stirringly soulful as Ray Charles. Eddie Cunningham comes from tough stuff, A Texas truck driving grandpa with Dakota Cunningham Indian blood running through his veins. Eddie’s grandmother drove a Hollywood taxi, hanging out at the Palomino, selling poppies for the American legion, while raising Eddie’s step brother Butchie who died from MD at 17.
Daddy worked 3 jobs to support the family, the primary one as a foreman in a steel mill while Mama stayed home to bring the family up right.
Up right was work hard, care for each other, love each other and always do not the easy thing but the right thing.
Eddie holds a Joseph Campbell philosophy although he never knew that’s what it was but again Eddie is a natural. That philosophy is for some of us, the chosen ones, the destination is the journey.. Be grateful for what you have, not only know who you are but as importantly know who you are not. “I think the main thing is keep your heart on track don’t stray and don’t give into temptations that result into negative Karma….stay true to your path and work hard and play safe.†~Eddie Cunningham. Good lord willin' and the creeks don’t rise, Eddie is the vision. ~Dolly Miller Brennanlie just a little
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