Integrity Music’s Dove Award-winning, Grammy®-nominated hitmaker, NewSong is making news on several fronts.

A New Member
Newsong is excited to announce that worship artist Drew Cline has officially joined the group as one of its lead singer. He replaces Michael O’Brien who left Newsong early this year to pursue his solo career and focus on a family ministry.

“We are so excited to welcome Drew Cline to the NewSong family. We are blessed and blown away by the character, passion and pipes that Drew brings. Drew begins a new chapter for NewSong that will have eyebrows raised and jaws dropped vocally,” said Troy VanLiere, of VanLiere-Wilcox, management firm for NewSong.

Cline, who has been performing live with NewSong since early summer, becomes only the third lead vocalist change in Newsong’s 25-plus year music ministry. He is also no stranger to Christian music. Since winning the Gospel Music Association’s (GMA) Music in the Rockies Spotlight competition in 2000 (with a vocal group he formed called AS IS), Cline has been an accomplished and sought-after session and studio vocalist in Nashville. He has also been a worship pastor at a Nashville-area church for four years and recently began recording a solo worship project, Way of Life, to be released in early 2007.

A New Album
In another sneak-peak announcement, NewSong is putting the final touches on its second Christmas CD, The Christmas Hope, which will release on September 26th. Produced by Bernie Herms (Natalie Grant, Nate Sallie), the holiday CD includes a new version of NewSong’s international hit, The Christmas Shoes,” as well as six new songs and contributions by fellow Christian artists Anointed, Matthew West and Rachael Lampa. A Christmas tour will be associated with the new release.

Stay tuned to YMZ as we will have a sneak peek of The Christmas Hope sometime next week.