Elevation Worship Leader Celebrates Grammy Win, Discusses New Album ‘Lion’
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Elevation Worship leader Chris Brown celebrated his recent Grammy win for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for the group’s collaboration with Maverick City Music, Old Church Basement.
“I will never forget that little basement where this beautifully wild season between our two groups began,” Brown said while accepting the award. “This has been the most amazing thing watching our two ministries create something together that we could’ve never created separately.”
Brown and the rest of Elevation Worship aren’t resting on their laurels. The group recently released a new project, called Lion.
“We didn’t really know what to do with some of what we were writing,” Brown told CBN. “We weren’t writing specifically with this album in mind. We just kept creating and having fun with friends over the last year. Then we made the decision to just put everything on this one project and let it all exist together.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Lion:
The Grammy Award-winning band, Elevation Worship recently released a new album called LION. Frontman Chris Brown said it goes outside the box of traditional worship.
“I just think across the album, there’s this assortment. It’s like a box of chocolates. You don’t know what’s coming next,” he told The Christian Post.
Along with Elevation Church’s pastor Steven Furtick, Brown said they started working on music together when they were both teenagers.
“It’s like a dream getting to still do that with him all these years later. I’ve been here for 15 years. I came about a year into the church being planted, and we’ve been writing songs, really since day one of myself coming on,” Brown said.
“That vision was always in his heart for Elevation to be a worshiping church, for Elevation to have songs that we’re writing and giving language to our people for what God’s doing here through our ministry,” he added.
According to Brow, LION reflects how Elevation Worship has “evolved” its sound after 14 albums.
The band is known for popular songs like “The Blessing” featuring Kari Jobe and “O Come to The Altar.”
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