Beauty Has Grace is Christian

Contemporary Christian music

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 artist Jaci Velasquez

Jaci Velasquez

Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin Pop singer—in both English and Spanish languages....

' fifth studio album. It marks a departure from her previous albums in style, having been recorded in London

London

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, England

England

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 with Martin Terefe (A-Ha

A-ha

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, Ron Sexsmith

Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...

, Leona Naess

Leona Naess

Leona Kristina Naess is a British singer-songwriter of Swedish-Norwegian parentage. She released her debut album, Comatised, in March 2000, which produced the single "Charm Attack" .-Early life:...

, KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall

Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...

, etc.). She co-wrote 6 of the 10 album tracks.

Velasquez decided to name the album "Kensaltown", after the town and studio where she recorded and wrote the album, but the label was concerned that people would confuse "Kensaltown" with "Tinsel Town" so they changed the title to "Beauty Has Grace" which is a lyric in the song "This Love". The release date for the album was pushed back several times until it finally got to May 3 as the final date.http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/news/Velasquez_Delay/14016/p1/ The label also changed the track listing of the album which first featured the song "Hold On To This Moment", but it was replaced for "Reason To Believe"
Critics for the album were favorable, calling Velasquez's musical change "the boldest, smartest Christian music artistic shift in recent memory.http://www.christianmusicplanet.com/magazine/viewarticle.asp?id=394 A special edition of the album was released by Family Christian Stores which featured a bonus track, "Love Will Find You".

Track listing

1. "I’m Not Looking Down" – 3:47
2. "With All My Soul" – 3:59
3. "Prayer to Love" – 4:08
4. "Lay It Down" – 4:01
5. "Something Beautiful" – 3:28
6. "Tonight" – 3:52
7. "When You Hold Me" – 3:19
8. "Reason to Believe" – 4:35
9. "Supernatural" – 3:31
10. "This Love" – 4:09

Personnel

Performance Credits:

• Jaci Velasquez - Primary Artist, Background Vocals
• Javier Solis - Drums
• David Angell - Violin
• Michael Clarke - Background Vocals
• David Davidson - Violin
• Anthony LaMarchina - Cello
• Kristin Wilkinson - Viola
• Christer Jansson - Percussion, Drums
• Mark Lusk - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Soloist
• Claes Bjorklund - Synthesizer, Electric Guitar
• Martin Terefe - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Piano, Drums, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals, Wurlitzer, Juno
• Abel Orta - Bass
• Ian Fitchuk - Piano, Keyboards, Background Vocals
• Nathaniel Chan - Electric Guitar
• Andreas Olsson - Synthesizer, Piano, Electric Guitar, Mellotron, Beat Box, Synthesizer Bass, Wurlitzer

Technical Credits:

• Jaci Velasquez - Producer, Executive Producer
• Martin Terefe - Producer, Engineer
• Dionicio R. Lopez - Producer, Executive Producer
• Andreas Olsson- Programming, Engineer, drum programming
• David Davidson - String Arrangements
• Richard Dodd - Mastering
• Kelly Pribble - Engineer
• Jacquire King
  Jacquire King
  Jacquire King is a record producer, mix engineer, songwriter/musician, and artist manager. Some of the artists he has worked with include Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, Mutemath, Cold War Kids, Norah Jones, Tim Finn and Buddy Guy. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner and nominee...
  
   - Engineer
• Claes Bjorklund - Programming
• Nathaniel Chan - Engineer
• Andy Hunt - Vocal Engineer

Chart performance

Album Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2005	Billboard Top 200	195
2005	Billboard Top Heatseekers	6
2005	Top Gospel Albums	3
2005	Top Christian Albums	2
2005	Top Canadian Albums	94