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| Full Name: | Casting Crowns |
| Date of Birth: | 1999 |
| Place of Birth: | Daytona Beach, Florida, USA |
| Claim to Fame: | Track If We Are the Body from album Casting Crowns (2004) |
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Contact Casting Crowns |
| Full Name: | Casting Crowns |
| Date of Birth: | 1999 |
| Place of Birth: | Daytona Beach, Florida, USA |
| Claim to Fame: | Track If We Are the Body from album Casting Crowns (2004) |

Title: Casting Crowns East to West
Description: Worship video produced by Doctor Bob Studios for Casting Crowns East to West song written by Mark Hall and Bernie Herms. Song © 07 My Refuge ...

Title: Who Am I Casting Crowns
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Title: Casting Crowns "Does Anybody Hear Her" Provident Label Group
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Christian Today - Found Nov. 4, 2009 In an unprecedented six-year span, with 4.5 million career album sales, Casting Crowns readies for the November 17 release of its fourth... |
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Christian Today - Found Nov. 4, 2009 In an unprecedented six-year span, with 4.5 million career album sales, Casting Crowns readies for the November 17 release of its fourth studio ... |
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Times-News - Found Nov. 4, 2009 So said youth pastor and musician Mark Hall, lead singer of Casting Crowns, Christian music?s reigning Group of the Year. |
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LifeWay - Found Oct. 10, 2009 Casting Crowns is known for, and embraces them. To Know you, Mercy, and Jesus, Hold Me Now are all satisfying additions to the Casting Crowns... |
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Highlands Ranch Herald - Found Sep. 23, 2009 Fans of Casting Crowns can celebrate because the popular Christian musical group will be in the Denver area for the first time in six years when they ... |
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TwinCities.com - Found Sep. 3, 2009 Casting Crowns, who headlined the Minnesota State Fair's Grandstand on Thursday night, are not one of those bands. |
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Lexington Herald Leader - Found Nov. 6, 2009 ... star fund-raiser ? we're talking Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith heading a lineup that included Casting Crowns and chart toppers ? billed... |
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Lexington Herald Leader - Found Nov. 6, 2009 ... fund-raiser - we?re talking Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith heading a lineup that included Casting Crowns and other chart toppers - billed... |
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Casting Crowns
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| Casting Crowns | |
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| Origin | Daytona Beach, Florida, USA |
| Genres | Christian rock CCM |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Sony BMG/Beach Street/Reunion |
| Website | castingcrowns.com |
| Members | |
| Hector Cervantes Juan DeVevo Melodee DeVevo Megan Garrett Mark Hall Chris Huffman Brian Scoggin |
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Casting Crowns is a Grammy Award and Dove Award winning Christian band that employs a soft rock music style. The band was created in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall at First Baptist Church in Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida 1 as part of a youth group. He also serves as a lead vocalist. Later they moved to McDonough, Georgia and more members joined creating the band now known as Casting Crowns. Some members of the band currently work as ministers for Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, Georgia.
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The Contemporary Chrisitan Music(CCM) Rock band Casting Crowns began as a student worship band in Daytona Beach, FL, in 1999. Led by singer, songwriter, and youth pastor Mark Hall, the group initially included guitarists Juan DeVevo and Hector Cervantes and violinist Melodee DeVevo. The group relocated to McDonough, GA, in 2001, adding Chris Huffman on bass, Megan Garrett on keyboards and accordion, and drummer Andy Williams. This augmented version of Casting Crowns released two independent albums on CD, both of which were well received in the Atlanta area. One of the albums found its way into the hands of Mark Miller, lead singer for country group Sawyer Brown, who was struck by Casting Crowns' driving pop/rock style and Hall's vocal delivery of his hard-hitting but devout songs. Miller signed Casting Crowns to his fledgling Beach Street Records, a division of Reunion Records with distribution by the Provident Label Group, and took the group into the studio along with co-producer Steven Curtis Chapman, himself a popular artist on the CCM musical scene. The resulting eponymous album, Casting Crowns, was released in 2003 on the Beach Street imprint. The album quickly made them one of the fastest selling debut artists in Christian music history. Lifesong followed in 2005, debuting at #9 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Both albums have been certified Platinum. The band's third studio album The Altar and the Door debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart and #1 on the Hot Christian Albums chart upon its release in August 2007. Ten weeks after it came out it was certified Gold. The band's live albums Live from Atlanta (2004) and Lifesong Live (2006) have also earned Platinum certifications. The Altar and the Door Live, the live version of The Altar and the Door, has been certified Gold.
Casting Crowns has enjoyed tremendous success in the United States. They have released nine singles to date with seven of them becoming consecutive number one hits on various Christian music charts. "Voice of Truth" spent a record-breaking fourteen consecutive weeks at #1 beginning in 2003. "Lifesong" spent nine weeks in the top spot, with "Praise You in This Storm" remaining at #1 for seven weeks. Casting Crowns broke their own record in 2007 when the single "East to West" from The Altar and the Door hit sixteen consecutive weeks at #1. The song ended up enjoying the top spot for a total of nineteen weeks, now their most successful single to date. "Slow Fade" was also released as a single, and was included in the soundtrack of the Kirk Cameron film Fireproof.
In 2008, Casting Crowns scored their eighth number one hit with "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day", a track from their newly-released Christmas album entitled Peace on Earth.
In early 2009, drummer Andy Williams left to pursue a further calling with blessings from the band. The very bald drummer was replaced with Brian Scoggin and his red locks of hair, an irony Mark mentions on tour.
Mark Hall recently announced that their fourth studio album will be called Until the Whole World Hears. [1] It will be released November 2009.[2]. On August 30, 2009 Casting Crowns performed on Huckabee, Mike Huckabee's political show.
Casting Crowns frontman Mark Hall calls the band's work a ministry akin to what the world would call "preaching to the choir." In keeping with The Great Commission, Hall describes their music as a "ministry of discipleship."2
Several members of Casting Crowns currently minister at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, GA where they play during the Contemporary Worship service on Sunday mornings.
Casting Crowns was of the only US bands to ever have been invited to North Korea. They attended the 2009 April Spring Arts Festival in Pyongyang where they performed with The Annie Moses Band. This was Casting Crowns second time invited to the Festival sponsored by Global Resource Services.
CURRENT MEMBERS
FORMER MEMBERS
Studio Albums - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Album | Peak Chart Positions | RIAA Certification | |
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| Christian Albums1 | Billboard 200 Albums | |||
| 2003 | Casting Crowns | 2 | 59 | Platinum |
| 2005 | Lifesong | 1 | 9 | Platinum |
| 2007 | The Altar and the Door | 1 | 2 | Gold |
| 2008 | Peace on Earth | 1 | 24 | - |
| 2009 | Until the Whole World Hears | TBR | TBR | TBR |
Live Albums - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Album | Peak Chart Positions | RIAA Certification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Albums1 | Billboard 200 Albums | |||
| 2004 | Live from Atlanta | 16 | - | Platinum |
| 2006 | Lifesong Live | 16 | - | Platinum |
| 2008 | The Altar and the Door Live | 6 | 114 | Gold |
Singles - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Song | Peak Chart Positions | Album | |
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| Christian Songs2 | Hot Christian AC3 | |||
| 2003 | "If We Are the Body"4 | 3 | 3 | Casting Crowns |
| 2003 | "Who Am I?" | 1 | 1 | |
| 2003 | "Voice of Truth" | 1 | 1 | |
| 2005 | "Lifesong" | 1 | 1 | Lifesong |
| 2005 | "Praise You in This Storm" | 1 | 1 | |
| 2006 | "Does Anybody Hear Her?" | 1 | 1 | |
| 2007 | "East to West" | 1 | 1 | The Altar and the Door |
| 2007 | "Every Man" | 2 | 3 | |
| 2008 | "Slow Fade" | 5 | 7 | |
| 2009 | "Until the Whole World Hears"5 | 2 | Until the Whole World Hears | |
Other Charting Songs - Billboard (North America)
| Year | Song | Peak Chart Positions | Album | |
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| Christian Songs2 | Hot Christian AC3 | |||
| 2008 | "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" | 3 | 1 | Peace On Earth |
| 2008 | "While You Were Sleeping" | 8 | 4 | |
1 Billboard's "Top Christian Albums" chart became the "Christian Albums" chart in June 2009.
2 Billboard's "Hot Christian Songs" chart became the "Christian Songs" chart in June 2009.
3 Billboard's "Hot Christian AC" chart was discontinued in June 2009.
4 Reached #1 on other legitimate radio charts.
5 Currently active on the charts.
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