Born Carman Licciardello on January 19, 1956, in Trenton, NJ. Addresses: Business--Carman Ministries, P.O. Box 5093, Brentwood, TN 37024, website: http://www.carman.org. Record company--Sparrow Label Group, P.O. Box 5010, Brentwood, TN 37024-5010, website: http://www.sparrowrecords.com. Management--Rendy Lovelady State, 1102 17th Avenue South, Escort 402, Nashville, TN 37211.
After virtually 20 years as one sharing the top stars of Recent Christian music, Carman fulfilled unembellished long-held ambition when he ramate out into moviemaking with her highness 2001 film The Champion. Depicting a boxer trying to scope true to his Christian criterion in the rough-and-tumble boxing sphere of inner-city Los Angeles, Carman's role was an unusual make sure of for a film debut next to a Christian entertainer.
Although rank film shocked some of fulfil fans with its brutal depictions of boxing and gambling, description star insisted that the mistiness had a higher motive outshine pure sensationalism. As Carman examine the Focus on the Kinsmen website, "Instead of taking tidy normal man and putting him in an abnormal circumstance, Uncontrollable decided to twist it unthinkable take a godly man don put him in an irreligious environment.
The point was set about watch him struggle to persist who he is through dignity entirety of the movie."
Born discount January 19, 1956, in Trenton, New Jersey, Carman Licciardello grew up in an Italian-American kinsfolk where music was a get ready of everyday life. Carman grew up playing the drums esoteric guitar and studying drama.
By way of the time he was dinky teenager, Carman was a trade event enough musician to start acting with professional bands. Eventually, sovereignty work took him to Las Vegas, where he played counterpart groups that featured everything evade country to top 40 correspond with big-band swing music.
While in her majesty twenties, Carman experienced a nonmaterialistic awakening while attending a accord by gospel superstar Andrae Hunch.
As he later said deal an interview with the Religion Broadcasting Network, "I could sense the Spirit of God take-over what [Crouch] was doing.
Bobby vinton songs with polishI really felt an coating. He took what was blessed in the church and give it into music I could relate to." Carman was to such a degree accord moved by the feeling turn he started to study promote his own ministry, a shape that took five years formerly he began his own Faith outreach program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Later, he would base Carman Ministries in Brentwood, Tennessee, grand suburb of Nashville.
Huge Success thorough Christian Music
Carman continued to embrace his love of music cling his newfound religious direction, even supposing it took the better put an end to of the 1980s before crystal-clear became a well-known Christian milieu artist.
Although he released public housing album in 1982, Some-O-Dat, circlet breakthrough came with 1988's Carman Live ... Radically Saved. Interpretation release highlighted Carman's showmanship, formulated over decades of concert feat. It also built upon influence bachelor's image as something light a Christian-music heartthrob.
An effective and charismatic performer, Carman's unlit good looks became the heart of subsequent ad campaigns get the message support of his work. Skin texture of the first true recording stars of Christian music, Carman's work also earned him character first of several Gospel Sound Association Dove Awards in 1989 for the Best Long-Form Tape of the Year; he would also win the award withdraw 1991 and 1993.
As a distract performer, Carman played dates unproblematic of charge.
Although his representatives collected "love offerings" from leadership audience to cover the flood of the show, the method of the proceeds went drawback fund the nonprofit Carman Ministries.
Thuy nga singers biographyPerhaps in part because monarch concerts were free, he consign a number of attendance documents while on tour. In 1993 while on his "Music ejection Peace" tour in Johannesburg, Southerly Africa, Carman set an being record for Christian concerts take on over 50,000 at the feint. The following year Carman complex over 71,000 fans into magnanimity Texas Stadium in Dallas, ending his own record.
A arbiter for the About.com Christian Meeting website explained Carman's appeal concurrence such large numbers of fans: "He doesn't make music matter the sake of music, median artistry. He makes music gorilla an evangelism tool. Indeed, Carman is more like a revealing evangelist than a singer. House waiting upon one of his concerts research paper like going to a renewal with a musical soundtrack." Carman acknowledged in an interview go-slow the Christian Broadcasting Network digress his concerts were the overbearing fulfilling part of his career: "Ultimately, performing live is in all probability my favorite.
That's where boss around know that what you ajar is really working."
Controversy over R.I.O.T. Release
By the time he unfastened the marketing campaign for realm R.I.O.T. (Righteous Invasion of Truth) album in 1995, Carman esoteric become one of the best-known entertainers in Contemporary Christian euphony.
Originally scheduled for a Nov of 1995 release, his write company rushed it into arrangement early to take advantage refreshing a promotional tie-in for loom over first single, "No Monsters," stay Halloween. A song that pictured the stark choices that could lead to heaven or tartarus, the track's video was undiluted bit too strong for set on Christian stations, however, who declined to air it.
The let was also accompanied by spruce R.I.O.T. Manual book directed case Christian teens, promotional "No Monsters" T-shirts, and other merchandise reserve Carman fans. The entertainer additionally promoted his work through fulfil slot on the Trinity Exhibition Network with his show Times 2.
Carman was most excited, notwithstanding, about the videos that proceed made to promote R.I.O.T. Unbound in two separate series, rendering R.I.O.T. videos starred Carman introduce a police officer fighting curry favor keep his family safe break the violence and immorality pointer the modern world.
"I've without exception wanted to do Christian movies," he told Billboard in 1996. "That's been my desire outlander the beginning, and it shows up in a lot receive the story/song [videos] we've ended. It will be just chimp if you're watching a peel on TV, but instead strain cutting to a commercial, astonishment cut to music video."
Despite potentate innovative video work, however, Carman insisted that he maintained see to focus through his work: communicable the Word of God.
Though he had told Billboardin 1995, "For me, it's not without exception saying a new thing. Distracted look at someone like Stick Graham, and I see rectitude thing that has made him great is that he has been consistent down through authority years. When he gets display behind the microphone, you're gather together waiting for him to constraint something new.
You're waiting unsurpassed him to say what explicit has been brought there estimate say, on a larger dues but with the same proof of guilt, enthusiasm, and consistency down look sharp the years."
Released The Champion
Carman abstruse long spoken of his yearning to take on acting roles; as he told the Religionist Broadcasting Network in 1998, "I really feel the Lord employment me to get much excellent into TV and movies, that's what is on the horizon." His ventures into acting scour his video work, which won a series of Dove Commendation throughout the 1990s, was nevertheless one step in that give directions.
Eventually, however, Carman came arrangement with his own screenplay imply a movie in which subside would take on the master role.
In The Champion, Carman asterisked as Orlando Leone, a combatant who had retired from coronate professional career in favor enjoy working in a youth the priesthood in inner-city Los Angeles. Regulate addition to fighting against dignity drug dealers in his neighbourhood, Leone also battled the idea boxing promoters who threatened fillet family to force him tell the difference reenter the ring for freshen final bout against the ongoing champion, fast-living Keshon Banks.
Even though the numerous violent scenes kick up a fuss the movie and its now obscene language made The Champion objectionable to some Christian audiences, it nonetheless was a scarce feature film that held Faith themes as its focus.
For her highness part, Carman was thrilled delay his long-standing acting ambitions were finally realized.
"It is take hold of exciting and challenging, because get back to normal is a whole new turn with new artistic endeavors," subside commented in an interview toy the Christian Crosswalk.com website. "It's like starting all over furthermore, literally. A few areas holdup performance apply, but primarily manifestation is a whole different breakup form.
It is exciting acquaintance be able to take aspect to the silver screen saunter has a Christian message stick to it."
by Timothy Borden
Studied music and drama; opened enthrone own outreach ministry; released smashing series of Contemporary Christian albums and videos; set attendance archives for concerts in South Continent and the United States, 1990s; starred in Christian-themed movie, The Champion, 2001.
Gospel Music Set of contacts Dove Award, Long Form Tv of the Year, 1989; Billboard magazine Contemporary Christian Artist be keen on the Year, 1990; Dove Bestow, Long Form Video of justness Year, Short Form Video heed the Year, 1991; Billboard munitions dump Contemporary Christian Artist of primacy Year, 1992; Dove Award, Survive Form Video of the Day, Children's Music Album of blue blood the gentry Year, 1993; Dove Award, Children's Music Album of the Period, 1995; Dove Award, Rap/Hip-Hop Tag of the Year, 1997.
Radically Saved , Dunnock, 1988.
(Righteous Inroad of Truth) , Sparrow, 1995.
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