WBrooke Barrettsmith is a singer, songwriter, and musician originally from Spring Grove, Illinois. She was a former contestant of the reality television show American Idol during its 5th season in 2005–2006.
WCory Brandan Putman, known as Cory Brandan, is an American singer who has been the lead vocalist for the metalcore band Norma Jean since 2004.
WJohn Landrum Cooper, professionally credited as John L. Cooper, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and author. He has been the lead vocalist, bassist and co-founder of the Grammy-nominated American Christian rock band Skillet since 1996 and his side project Fight the Fury since 2018.
WRick Cua is an American Christian rock singer, songwriter, bassist, author and ordained minister. He is a former member of the Southern rock band, Outlaws, whom he joined in 1980, but left in 1983 to pursue a full-time career in contemporary Christian music, the year after, wherein he gained popularity throughout most of the 1980s as a leather-jacket-wearing rocker with an arena rock sound featuring big, shout-along choruses.
WMichael William Deasy is an American rock and jazz guitarist. As a session musician, he played on numerous hit singles and albums recorded in Los Angeles in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He is sometimes credited as Mike Deasy Sr.
WJoshua S. Porter, better known by his stage name Josh Dies is an American singer, songwriter, musician and novelist. Porter is widely known as the vocalist and songwriter for the band Showbread.
WÉowyn is a Christian alternative rock artist from the Nashville, Tennessee area that began in 1999.
WVito John Fossella Jr. is an American Republican politician from the state of New York who formerly represented the state's 13th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms, from 1997 to 2009 serving as the lone Republican from New York City. Fossella, a Staten Island native, was born to a family that included several politicians. Fossella initially took office in 1997, after winning a special election held to replace the resigning Susan Molinari.
WJan Leonard Groth was a Norwegian musician.
WBillie Keith Hughes was an American recording artist, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known for his songs written for Philip Bailey, Phil Collins, Bette Midler, The Jacksons, The Sisters Of Mercy, Al Jarreau, his band Lazarus, Noel Paul Stookey, and his solo career as a recording artist. Hughes had a successful artist career in Japan and was awarded the No. 1 International Single of the Year in 1992 at the NHK Grand Prix Japanese Gold Disk Awards.
WPhilip Tyler Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets. He is a seven-time recipient of the GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year, and was twice nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Gospel Album. He has frequently been listed as one of the world's top-three "finger-style" and "finger-picking" guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine readers' polls.
WTheodore Michael "Ted" Leonard is an American vocalist and guitarist, best known as the lead singer for the progressive rock band Enchant. He has also provided lead vocals for Thought Chamber and Spock's Beard.
WMarc Martel is a Canadian Christian rock musician. He was born in Montreal, Canada, to father Michel Martel and mother Barbara Beresford Martel. He attended Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan, where he formed the band Downhere with his roommate Jason Germain and a few friends in 1999.
WKrystal Nicole Meyers is an American Christian rock and contemporary Christian singer, songwriter, and musician. She released three albums under Essential Records: Krystal Meyers, Dying for a Heart, and Make Some Noise and is known best for her songs: "The Way to Begin", "The Beauty of Grace" and "Hallelujah" and for her international crossover singles "Anticonformity" and "Make Some Noise".
WBrittany Nicole Waddell, better known by her stage name Britt Nicole, is an American vocalist, songwriter and recording artist. She has mainly charted as a Christian pop artist, but in 2012 found her debut mainstream single, "Gold", and, in 2013, "Ready or Not", in the Mainstream Top 40. Her fourth studio album, Gold, was nominated for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. She is signed to Sparrow and Capitol Records.
WWilliam Reese "Will" Owsley III, known professionally as Owsley, was an American singer and songwriter. His two solo albums won critical acclaim, and his debut album was nominated for a Grammy Award, as was the song "Threaten Me With Heaven". Owsley was also a record producer, a recording engineer, and the guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band.
WTrey Pearson is an American singer-songwriter. He founded the American Christian rock band Everyday Sunday in 1997 in Columbus, Ohio. He currently resides in Columbus and produces independent pop music as a solo artist.
WPetra is a music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres and was, for many years, regarded as the "world's most popular Christian rock band". Formed in 1972, the band took its name from the Greek word for "rock". Though it disbanded formally in 2006, incarnations have played reunion shows in the years since and released two albums in November 2010, and in November 2017. In 2013, it reformed with a new drummer, Cristian Borneo, and recorded a new song titled "Holy is Your Name", before going back on tour.
WJohn William Schlitt is an American musician, who was the lead singer of Christian rock band Petra from 1986 until the band's retirement in late 2005. Prior to joining Petra in 1986, Schlitt was the lead vocalist for Head East.
WDr. Ken Steorts is the founder and president of Visible Music College in Memphis, Tennessee and founding guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Skillet. Visible Music College is an accredited, bachelor-degree-granting institution of higher education in music, music production, and music business. He is president of Madison Line Records, a non-profit artist development and music production company and a BMI songwriter/guitarist/band leader in his band "the beep." Steorts is a church music leader and active in the music community of Memphis.
WMark Alan Stuart is a Christian rock musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist for the Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline during their original run from 1986 to 2007.
WNotker Wolf OSB served as the ninth Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was elected to his position as Abbot Primate in 2000, succeeding Marcel Rooney, and ended his final term in 2016.