Bryan & Katie Torwalt

Bryan & Katie Torwalt are an American Christian music husband and wife duo from Sacramento, California, and they started their music recording careers in 2006. The first album, Here On Earth, was released in 2011 by Jesus Culture Music alongside Kingsway Music. It became their Billboard magazine breakthrough released. Their second album, Kingdom Come, released by the aforementioned labels in 2013. This album performed even better on the Billboard magazine charts. They released, a self-titled album, Bryan & Katie Torwalt, with the two labels mentioned earlier in 2015, yet this album did not place on any Billboard magazine charts.

Background

The duo met for the first-time at a Jesus Culture Ministry event in Sacramento, California in 2006, and they started dating, eventually getting married in 2009. They are presently ministering at The River Church in Fresno, California.

Music history

The husband and wife duo commenced their recording careers in 2011, with the album, Here On Earth, and it was released on September 13, 2011 by Jesus Culture Music in association with Kingsway Music. This album was their breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, where it placed at No. 24 on the Christian Albums chart and No. 24 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. Their second release, Kingdom Come, was released by Jesus Culture Music alongside Kingsway Music on October 15, 2013. The album placed even better on the Billboard magazine charts, where it placed at No. 43 on The Billboard 200 along with No. 3 on the Christian Albums chart and No. 5 on the Independent Albums chart. They released, Bryan & Katie Torwalt, with Jesus Culture Music and Kingsway Music on April 7, 2015, however this album did not place on any Billboard magazine charts.

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Jesus Culture

Jesus Culture is an international Christian revivalist youth outreach ministry that was formed at the Bethel Church of Redding, California. Jesus Culture Ministry hosts conferences and operates a record label, Jesus Culture Music, to share its message and spread worship. In 2013 Jesus Culture moved to plant a church in Sacramento. Meetings started on September 14, 2014.

Background

In late 1999, when the youth group at Bethel Church in Redding, California, led by youth pastor Banning Liebscher, launched the first Jesus Culture conference. Tony Cummings, music editor of Cross Rhythms, described the ministry as "one of the most significant Christian movements in post-war America".

According to Jesus Culture's website, "The heart of these gatherings was to serve other churches and lead young people to experience the radical love of God."

In 2013 Jesus Culture moved to Sacramento to plant a church, and meetings started at Folsom High School on September 14, 2014.

Conferences

Growing from the original conference in Redding, the organization now hosts annual conferences in Redding, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Dallas, Cleveland, and locations in Australia and the United Kingdom. The conferences bring thousands of young people from around the world to the host cities.

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Sparrow Records

Sparrow Records is a Christian music record label and a division of Universal Music Group.

Background

Sparrow Records was founded in 1976 by Billy Ray Hearn, then A&R director at Myrrh Records. Purchased by EMI in 1992, it is now part of the EMI Christian Music Group, and has been named by Billboard Magazine as "America's Best Christian Music Record Label". Sparrow Records rose to prominence with the signing of singer, songwriter, Contemporary Christian musician and minister Keith Green. Within a year of his 1976 signing by Sparrow, Keith Green was the top selling Christian artist in America.

As of 2009, Sparrow's artists include Britt Nicole, Chris Tomlin, Mandisa, Matt Redman, Matthew West, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Switchfoot. Since 1996, a popular production of Sparrow Records has been the annual WOW Hits contemporary Christian music series. The WOW franchise then added the annual WOW Gospel series of albums in 1998. The WOW Worship series was introduced in 1999, an annual compilation of the greatest hits in contemporary worship music.