Lianna Klassen is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 Christian

Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely across the world....

 Celtic/Christian New Age

Christian Meditation Music

New Age music meets with disapproval among some Christians. The expression Christian meditation music is sometimes used to describe similar music produced by members of the Christian faith community. In the same way as New Age music has never been a well-defined genre, so too a broad range of...

 influenced musician, songwriter, speaker and worship leader. A Juno Award nominee and GMA Canada

GMA Canada

GMA Canada is the Gospel Music Association of Canada . Created in 1974, the organization is a not for profit association whose mission is to promote the growth and ministry of Christian music arts in Canada...

 Covenant Award

Covenant Awards

The Covenant Awards are handed out annually by GMA Canada, the Gospel Music Association of Canada . Created in 1974, the association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the growth and ministry of Christian music arts in Canada...

 winner, Klassen has released six albums to date. Her compositions are chants, hymns and meditations on the themes of praise

Praise

Praise is the act of making positive statements about a person, object or idea, either in public or privately. Praise is typically, but not exclusively, earned relative to achievement and accomplishment...

, prayer

Prayer

Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional rapport to a deity through deliberate practice. Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words or song. When language is used, prayer may take the form of...

 and worship

Worship

Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. The word is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something, for example, Christian worship.Evelyn Underhill defines worship thus: "The absolute...

. Stylistically they have also included Christmas

Christmas

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 carols, contemporary praise, country music and Christian folk. Notable songs written by Lianna include: "Song for Canada", "I will Not Be Silent" and "Song of Declaration."

Klassen was born on August 25, 1961 in Vancouver, British Columbia and has been based out of Abbotsford, British Columbia

Abbotsford, British Columbia

Abbotsford is a Canadian city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, adjacent to Greater Vancouver. It is the fifth largest municipality in British Columbia, home to 123,864 people . Its Census Metropolitan Area, which includes the District of Mission, is the 23rd largest in Canada,...

, Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, and most recently, Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. Lianna was a worship leader at Northview Community Church in Abbotsford for several years. She wrote her first gospel

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 song at the age of 14 and has been performing since the age of eight. Klassen is married and has three children.

Discography

Songs on compilations

• Window of Hope, "Song of Declaration", "Doors and Windows", "Listen To The Sound" & "Salvation" (Gospel Music Foundation, 2002)
• Sea to Sea: I See The Cross
  Sea to Sea: I See The Cross
  Sea to Sea: I See The Cross is the second album in the annual Sea to Sea praise and worship music series. The album includes thirty songs performed by Canadian Christian artists on two CDs...
  
  , "You Are God And You Are Wonderful" (CMC, 2005)
• Sea to Sea: The Voice of Creation, "Celtic Blessings: You Are The Peace" (CMC, 2007)
• Sea to Sea: Christmas, "Huron Carol" (Lakeside, 2009)

Notable appearances

• duet with Graham Ord
  Graham Ord
  Graham Ord born March 22, 1961, is an English/Canadian musician and songwriter. He has garnered respect internationally as a fine musician and engaging communicator. His live performances are always passionate and compelling leaving audiences wanting more. Graham performed with the Wesley Brothers...
  
   on: "Like Joshua of old", on his album: Regarding the Maker (Knewsense Records, 2005)

Awards and recognition

GMA Canada

GMA Canada

GMA Canada is the Gospel Music Association of Canada . Created in 1974, the organization is a not for profit association whose mission is to promote the growth and ministry of Christian music arts in Canada...

 Covenant Awards

Covenant Awards

The Covenant Awards are handed out annually by GMA Canada, the Gospel Music Association of Canada . Created in 1974, the association is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the growth and ministry of Christian music arts in Canada...

• 2001 Contemporary Gospel Album Of The Year: Love In The Ruins, Hope In The Wasteland
• 2001 Inspirational Song Of The Year: "Song for Canada"
• 2005 nominee, Inspirational Album Of The Year: Out of Borderland
• 2007 nominee, Folk/Roots Song Of The Year: "Celtic Blessing"
• 2007 nominee, Inspirational Song Of The Year: "I Am"
• 2007 nominee, Instrumental Song Of The Year: "Repentance Lament"
• 2007 nominee, Folk/Roots Album Of The Year: The Guest
• 2007 nominee, Album Of The Year: The Guest

Juno Awards

• 1999 nominee
  Juno Awards of 1999
  The Juno Awards of 1999 honouring Canadian music industry achievements were held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The primary ceremonies at Copps Coliseum on 7 March 1999 were broadcast by CBC Television and hosted by Mike Bullard....
  
  , Best Gospel Album: Listen To The Sound

Shai Awards (formerly The Vibe Awards)

• 2002 nominee, Female Vocalist Of The Year
• 2002 nominee, Contemporary/Pop Album Of The Year: Love In The Ruins, Hope In The Wasteland
• 2002 nominee, Worship Album Of The Year: Love In The Ruins, Hope In The Wasteland
• 2002 nominee, Song Of The Year: "Song for Canada"
• 2003 nominee, Female Vocalist Of The Year
• 2003 nominee, Inspirational Album Of The Year: Once Upon A Time Forever After
• 2004 Seasonal Album Of The Year: Once Upon A Time Forever After
• 2004 nominee, Female Soloist Of The Year
• 2004 nominee, Song Of The Year: "The Women’s Song"
• 2005 nominee, Female Vocalist Of The Year
• 2005 nominee, Inspirational Album Of The Year: Out Of Borderland

External links

Lianna Klassen's Official German home page. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

• Lianna Klassen's MySpace. Retrieved 2008-10-18.