Bruce Carroll
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Bruce Carroll is an American CCM
singer and multi Grammy and Dove Award winning recording artist. He currently is the director of arts and worship and leads a ten member band at the six thousand plus member Hope Church in Memphis, Tennessee
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Bruce lives in Memphis, Tennessee
with his wife Nikki.
in various venues in and around Texas in the 1970s. In 1979 he became a born-again Christian and eventually moved to Nashville
. Signing with Word Records
, Carroll became a successful Christian music singer, releasing several albums which sold well in the genre and winning seven Dove Awards. Two of his recordings, The Great Exchange (1990) and Sometimes Miracles Hide (1992), won Grammy Award
s for Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, of Bluegrass Gospel Album.
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
singer and multi Grammy and Dove Award winning recording artist. He currently is the director of arts and worship and leads a ten member band at the six thousand plus member Hope Church in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
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Bruce lives in Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
with his wife Nikki.
Biography
Carroll first began performing in a trio with his siblings at age 12; he played folk musicFolk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
in various venues in and around Texas in the 1970s. In 1979 he became a born-again Christian and eventually moved to Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. Signing with Word Records
Word Records
Word Records is a Christian record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a division of Word Entertainment , which, itself is co-owned by Warner Music Group and Curb Records...
, Carroll became a successful Christian music singer, releasing several albums which sold well in the genre and winning seven Dove Awards. Two of his recordings, The Great Exchange (1990) and Sometimes Miracles Hide (1992), won Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s for Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, of Bluegrass Gospel Album.
Discography
- 1987 Something Good is Bound to Happen (Word RecordsWord RecordsWord Records is a Christian record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a division of Word Entertainment , which, itself is co-owned by Warner Music Group and Curb Records...
) - 1988 Richest Man In Town (Word)
- 1990 The Great Exchange (Word/EpicEpic RecordsEpic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
) U.S. Billboard Christian charts #22 - 1990 Our Hymns (Word/Epic)
- 1991 Sometimes Miracles Hide (Word/Epic) U.S. Christian #18
- 1992 Our Family (Word/Epic)
- 1992 Evening Tapestry (Warner Bros.Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
) - 1993 Walk On (Word/Epic) U.S. Christian #18
- 1994 One Summer Evening... Live (Word/Epic)
- 1996 Speed of Light (Benson RecordsBenson RecordsBenson Records was founded by Bob Benson & John T. Benson, beginning as the John T. Benson Music Publishing Company in 1902. The record label started out as Heart Warming Records and would come to house labels such as Impact Records, Greentree Records, RiverSong, StarSong and Home Sweet Home...
) - 1998 Boomerang (Benson)
- 1999 For the Record (Best of... ) (Word)
- 2000 A Day of Hope (On the Grove)
- 2001 A Night of Hope (On the Grove)
- 2002 Hope Christmas (On the Grove)
- 2002 Return Of The Killer B's (On the Grove)
- 2005 Big World (On the Grove)