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Dove Awards honor diverse Christian music
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By CE Staff Reporter
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Switchfoot, the Crabb Family, Casting Crowns and Jeremy Camp were multiple winners April 13 at The 2005 Gospel Music Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry.
The 36th annual event honors the best in Christian music, with statues awarded to everything from Children’s Music Album of the Year to Artist of the Year.
San Diego band Switchfoot took the honors for Artist of the Year, Rock/Contemporary Song and Short Form Music Video for “Dare You To Move,” and Long Form Music Video for “Switchfoot Live in San Diego.”
The Crabb Family, Casting Crowns and Jeremy Camp each brought home four awards.
The show will be broadcast nationally at a later date.
The winners of the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards includes:
Song of the Year: “Who Am I”; Mark Hall
Songwriter of the Year: Mark Hall
Male Vocalist of the Year: Jeremy Camp
Female Vocalist of the Year: Nicole C. Mullen
Group of the Year: Casting Crowns
Artist of the Year: Switchfoot
New Artist of the Year: Building 429
Producer of the Year: Ed Cash
Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song of the Year: “Hittin’ Curves”; Dichotomy A; Grits; Teron Carter, Stacy Jones, Otto Price, S. Moss
Modern Rock Recorded Song of the Year: “Control”; Reset EP; MuteMath; Paul Meany, Darren King, Adam LeClave
Rock Recorded Song of the Year: “Stay”; Stay; Jeremy Camp;
Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year: “Dare You to Move”; The Beautiful Letdown; Switchfoot; Jonathan Foreman, Sparrow Records
Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year: “Who Am I”; Casting Crowns
Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year: “Voice of Truth”; Casting Crowns; Casting Crowns
Southern Gospel Recorded Song of the Year: “He Came Looking for Me”; Driven; Crabb Family
Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year: “Heroes”; Heroes; The Isaacs; Rebecca Isaacs Bowman, Sonya Isaacs
Country Recorded Song of the Year: “Forever”; Driven; The Crabb Family; Jason Crabb, Gerald Crabb
Urban Recorded Song of the Year: “You Don’t Know”; I Owe You; Kierra Kiki Sheard; Rodney Jerkins, Danny Nixon, Fred Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Delisha Thomas
Traditional Gospel Recorded Song of the Year: “Through the Fire”; Driven; The Crabb Family featuring Donnie McClurkin; Gerald Crabb
Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year: “Again I Say Rejoice”; Live From Another Level; Israel & New Breed; Israel Houghton, Aaron Lindsey
Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year: Welcome to Diverse City; tobyMac; Toby McKeehan, Christopher Stevens, Paul Meany, Solomon Olds, Joe Baldridge, Jeff Savage, Robert Marvin, Josiah Bell, Max Hsu, Michael Linney
Modern Rock Album of the Year: Fight the Tide; Sanctus Real; Tedd T.
Rock Album of the Year: Day of Fire; Day of Fire; Scott Humphrey Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year: Wire; Third Day; Paul Ebersold
Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year: Undone; MercyMe; Pete Kipley
Inspirational Album of the Year: Hiding Place; Selah; Jason Kyle, Nicol Sponberg, Allan Hall, Todd Smith
Southern Gospel Album of the Year: Driven; The Crabb Family; Jason Crabb, Adam Crabb, Aaron Crabb, Kelly Bowling, Jerry Yoder
Bluegrass Album of the Year: Angels Gathering Flowers; The Lewis Family; Wayne Haun
Country Album of the Year: Passing Through; Randy Travis; Kyle Lehning
Urban Album of the Year: Everyday People; Nicole C. Mullen; Nicole C. Mullen, David Mullen, Tommy Sims, James “Big Jim” Wright, Andrew Ramsey, Shannon Sanders
Traditional Gospel Album of the Year: A Tribute to Mahalia Jackson; Lynda Randle; Barry Beckett
Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year: Live From Another Level; Israel & New Breed; Israel Houghton, Aaron W. Lindsey
Praise & Worship Album of the Year: Arriving; Chris Tomlin; Ed Cash
Instrumental Album of the Year: The Passion of the Christ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; Various; John Debney; Mel Gibson
Children’s Music Album of the Year: Angel Alert!; Various; Celeste Clydesdale, David T. Clydesdale
Spanish Language Album of the Year: Te Amo Dios; Praise Street Worship Band; Dave Moody, James Cobble Jr., Wesley Pritchard, Eulises Canada, Nelson McSwain
Special Event Album of the Year: The Passion of the Christ: Songs; Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman, MercyMe, Scott Stapp, POD, Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, Big Dismal, Lauryn Hill, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, MxPx, Mark Hoppus, Charlotte Church, BeBe Winans, Angie Stone, Dan Lavery; Tim Cook, Mark Joseph, Gregg Wattenberg, Steven Lerner
Musical of the Year: Emmanuel - Celebrating Heaven’s Child; Joel Lindsey, Russell Mauldin
Youth/Children’s Musical of the Year: Fear Not Factor; Dennis Allen, Nan Allen
Choral Collection of the Year: Live...This is Your House; Carol Cymbala
Worship Song of the Year: “Blessed Be Your Name”; Matt Redman, Beth Redman
Recorded Music Packaging of the Year: Happy; Jan Cook, Tim Frank, Emily West, Clark Hook, Susan Levy; Clark Hook, Michael Lavine
Short Form Music Video of the Year: “Dare You to Move”; Switchfoot; Nina Grossman Warner; Robert Hales
Long Form Music Video of the Year: Switchfoot Live In San Diego; Switchfoot; Dwight Thompson; Dwight Thompson
Published by Keener Communications Group, May 2005
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