Jeremy Camp

Jeremy Camp
Jeremy Camp performing in June 2006
Background information
Birth name	Jeremy Thomas Camp
Born	January 12, 1978 (1978-01-12) (age 31)
Origin	Lafayette, Indiana
Genres	Contemporary Christian Christian rock
Occupations	Musician, minister
Years active	2000–present
Labels	BEC Recordings
Website	http://www.jeremycamp.com/

Jeremy Thomas Camp^[1] (born January 12, 1978) is a contemporary Christian musician from Lafayette, Indiana. Camp has released six albums, three of them RIAA-certified as Gold, and 17 number-one hit songs.^[2] His original music is a mixture of ballads and rock.

Camp is also an ordained minister.^[3]

Early life

Jeremy Camp was born on January 12, 1978 in Lafayette, Indiana.^[4] His father Tom is the pastor at Harvest Chapel, a Calvary Chapel church in Lafayette, and taught his son how to play guitar. After completing high school, Camp attended a bible college in Southern California for two years. He also has two brothers and a sister.

Musical career

Camp has scored fourteen #1 Christian music hits (six from his first album, Stay). His first single was "Understand". He has made eight music videos: "Understand", "Walk By Faith", "Take You Back", "Tonight" "Give You Glory", "Let It Fade", "I Am Willing",a song which was not included on any of his albums and "Speaking Louder Than Before". He has also released a DVD (In24) which chronicles a regular day on tour. Live Unplugged from Franklin, TN also includes a DVD of the concert, which was recorded for the live album. He also has scored a musical number "This Man" and his video can be seen on YouTube. This video was made with clips from the movie The Passion of the Christ.

2005

Jeremy scored Christian music top spots for "Take You Back" and "Lay Down My Pride". He also was voted the Best Male Artist in the 2005 Reader’s Choice Music Awards in the Christianity Today magazine.^[5] Camp was also ASCAP 2005 Songwriter of the Year and won the Dove Award for the Male Vocalist of the Year for the second consecutive year. In 2005 he recorded the song "Open Up Your Eyes" for the compilation release Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, a September 2005 album which contained original songs written by various Christian artists for the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Camp closed the year with both Stay and Carried Me: the Worship Project being RIAA-certified as Gold.^[5]

2006

Jeremy earned the top honors at the Twenty-Eighth Annual ASCAP Music Awards, winning the Songwriter Of The Year award ("Take You Back" and "This Man"). "Take You Back" also earned him the Song Of The Year award. Jeremy won two 2006 CCM Reader's Choice Awards, for Favorite Artist and Favorite Male Artist. Jeremy took part in winning the Dove award for Special Event Album Of The Year, which went to Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He released a special edition of his hit album, Restored. Four new songs were included on Restored: The Deluxe Gold Edition as well as a letter to his fans.

Jeremy went back into the studio to record Beyond Measure in the spring. The album was released on October 31, 2006. Camp is also credited as producer for his wife's album titled Don't Wait, which was released in September, 2006.

2007

"Tonight", the first single from the album Beyond Measure, was released in mid-August, and eventually hit #1 on Christian contemporary hit radio. It was the 11th most played single on HR stations in 2007.^[6] The second single, "What It Means," was also a #1 hit on Jewish AJ radio. "Give Me Jesus," the third single off "Beyond Measure," made it into the top 5 on Inspirational radio. The fourth single, "Give You Glory," debuted on Jewish AJ radio at #16. His song "Let it Fade" was the seventh most played song on HR radio in 2007. That year he also released a two disc (CD and DVD) for his concert tour "Live Unplugged" recorded in Franklin, Tennessee^[6]

2008–2009

His song "No Matter What" was the 4th most-played song on R&R magazine's Christian CHR chart for 2008.^[7] He also came out with his new studio album Speaking Louder Than Before. On November 17, 2009, Jeremy Camp will release another live album, entitled Jeremy Camp Live. This album will feature songs from all albums to date.

Personal life

Camp has been married twice. He and his first wife, Melissa Lynn Henning-Camp (born October 7, 1979), were married on October 21, 2000.^[8] She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died on February 5, 2001, when he was 23 and she was 21.^[8] Some of his early songs reflect the emotional ordeal of her illness. "I Still Believe" was the first song he wrote after her death. "Walk By Faith" was written during their honeymoon.^[9] In December of 2003, he married Adrienne Liesching, former frontwoman for The Benjamin Gate. They have two daughters: Isabella Rose Camp (born September 25, 2004) and Arianne Mae Camp (born April 5, 2006).^{[citation needed]}

Tours

• Festival Con Dios 2002
• The Stay Tour
• The Adoration Tour (long timers refer to this as the Kidnapped by the Australians Tours)
• The Restored Tour
• The Live Unplugged Tour (with Mainstay)
• The Beyond Measure Tour
• The House of Blues Tour
• Ichthus Festival 2006
• Winter Jam
• Congreso 2007
• Boomin' Beyond Measure Tour 2008 (with TobyMac)
• Speaking Louder Than Before Tour w/ Natalie Grant and Bebo Norman
• Rock & Worship Roadshow 2009

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Other releases

Live Session EP was released by iTunes and is only available through iTunes

Compilation appearances

Singles

Awards

References

External links

• Official website
• Jeremy Camp on PureVolume