Artist:Kurt Carr Project
Song:Something Happens
Album:One Church
Kurt Carr has become one of today's most popular gospel artists. He grew up in Hartford, CT and started attending church as a teen. He earned a degree in fine arts at the University of Connecticut. On the recommendation of Richard Smallwood, legendary gospel artist James Cleveland hired Carr as an arranger in 1986 and he was musical director until Cleveland's death in 1991. The thing Carr learned from Cleveland is there's no such thing as old gospel music. All you have to do is take the old songs and update the arrangements. Carr moved to Los Angeles and became musical director for Andrae Crouch. He also started The Kurt Carr Singers and Crouch got him a contract with his label Light Records. But Light was soon sold and Carr signed with Vicki Mack Latandaille's fledgling GospoCentric Records. His first two CDs for GospoCentric didn't do well so on his next CD, Carr decided to take the lessons learned from James Cleveland and revitalize gospel standards. The result was the 1999 CD No One Else and the song For Every Mountain was the breakthrough he was looking for. The 2001 follow up Awesome Wonder and the hit In The Sanctuary was even bigger and the album went gold. One Church was the 2004 follow up. It's a live recording like the others and Carr wrote and produced all the songs. I'm sure we'll see a new CD from Carr eventually but he's been busy producing other GospoCentric artists and his work with Byron Cage & Tramaine Hawkins has been very successful. Here's Kurt Carr with singer Nikki Potts performing Something Happens on the Church Channel.
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