Culture
The industry's song of the year is about a Bible nobody opens
Josiah Queen's "Dusty Bibles" took Song of the Year at the 57th Dove Awards. Phil Wickham won Artist of the Year and Angel Studios' David won the film prize.
Music
Culture
She left school, and now she is the only woman running the sound desk at her church
Esther grew up the eldest of four daughters of daily-wage workers, and was pulled out of English-medium school so a younger sister could stay in. Then the church asked for someone to learn the mixer.
Culture
He taught film dance for a living, then taught himself keyboard, guitar and drums
Ricky Biswasi led an orchestra in Jeypore singing film songs. He talks about the year his friends left, the verse that stopped him, and why he no longer thinks of prayer as asking.
Culture
Bhaskar Rao played twenty instruments, and sang in ten languages
He sat in the corner of a room until he was ten. Then a pastor asked whether he wanted to go to school. Our 2012 conversation with the flutist, who died in May.
Culture
We cut the tags off in the changing room, walked out, and sold the clothes at half price to rich college kids
He failed eight papers out of ten and lost a year. Three friends died of overdoses. Then somebody asked him to play guitar at a prayer meeting, and he went because he had nothing else on that afternoon.