Singaporean
Praise
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Pastor Wah Lok
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Over the last few years, I have discovered some people in Singapore making an impact with their Gospel Music. Interestingly, these Christian music producers and songwriters face very similar problems like Malaysian music producers face. There is very little infrastructure to market their albums and they face huge competition from Western recording labels. I have also discovered that there is no single website that features all of the Singaporean Gospel albums. I have hence made it my goal to collect as many Singaporean albums and feature them in my website. This page is dedicated to all Singaporean music producers and songwriters.
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Galvin - Above All Else |
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 Galvin has been writing songs for God since the beginning of the year 2001 when he and his family came to know the Lord through his younger sister's leukemia condition. The songs are birthed through his personal walk, some which were written as a form of encouragement for others. By His grace, Galvin has been able to do simple acoustic recordings of his songs and release them to the Church of Jesus Christ at large through the internet, which many had returned comments to say how much they had been blessed by some of the songs.
"ABOVE ALL ELSE" was a free offline distribution project in 2004 to bless the offline community with the opportunity to hear of some of the compositions in which approximately 200 cds were given or mailed out to as far as the United States. It was a really humbling experience to know how much God can use those songs to minister to others. A compilation of some of the favourite songs is in the pipeline for the end of 2005. All songs, lyrics and chords are available at
http://galvin.worshipsingapore.com/cd/
Email: galvin@worshipsingapore.com
Website: http://galvin.worshipsingapore.com/
Songs Site: http://galvin.worshipsingapore.com/cd/ |
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PEACE OF EARTH – THY DELIVEREES |
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PEACE ON EARTH is a single, released by THY Deliverees. Reggie Goh wrote the song and sang lead vocals. While writing the song. Reggie was thinking about the helpless and fearful children living in war-torn zones like the Middle-East. He says, “Are the children really dreaming of a white Christmas? What they are dreaming is just a peaceful Christmas”. With this statement, he penned down this touching piece. This song was originally planned to be in Thy Deliverees debut album SAVED. However, the recording was completed about 3 weeks before 2004 Christmas and hence it was released as a Christmas blessing. PEACE ON EARTH was initially recorded with 9 adults and 3 children's voices. But during the final mix, the producer Philip Chong decided to use only Reggie's voice as the main vocal to reach a “united” feel of the song. All the other voices were brought in for the finale.
E Mails:
philipchong@thydeliverees.com and
reggiegoh@thydeliverees.com
Website:
www.thydeliverees.com |
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SAVED – THY DELIVEREES |
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Thy Deliverees is a ministry that writes and produces original gospel songs, getting inspirational lyrics from the Bible, testimonies, poetry and personal experiences with God. The ministry was started by Philip Chong. Other songwriters in the group include Reggie Goh and Norman Neo. The group works closely with Singapore 's well known music producer, John Kuek who arranges the songs and serves as Executive Producer.
SAVED is their debut album with 8 tracks. The lyrics for the title track SAVED was written by Reggie and the song is his personal testimony. Philip composed the music. B oth Reggie and Philip chose SAVED as the title track because they know there are many unsaved people in the world who need to hear the Gospel and this album serves as a strong tool to spread His word.
Norman Neo wrote and presented the touching song WHENEVER A DOOR IS CLOSED ON YOU nearly 13 years ago. This song has the best feedback among all the songs in this album. DARKEST HOUR is another touching song written by Philip Chong. Philip shares his personal testimony in the song. Philip is indeed gifted in song composition and wrote most of the melodies in this album. Lyricist, James Goon wrote lyrics for 3 songs, FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, O LORD KEEP ME CLOSE TO YOU and YOUR WORD.
Interestingly, within 2 hours upon the release of the album SAVED, the songs touched a 5 year-old girl who drew a vision that these songs could save sad souls and change them into smiling and happy faces! Glory to God!
E mail:
philipchong@thydeliverees.com and
reggiegoh@thydeliverees.com
Website:
www.thydeliverees.com
Mailing address:
18 Kaki Bukit Road 3
#04-19 Entrepreneur Business Centre
Singapore 415978
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IN YOUR PRESENCE by Church of Praise (Singapore) |
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"In Your Presence" was birthed out of a period of the Lord's unique visitation in Church of Praise. All the songs were written by their own members with an emphasis on revival worship. Capture the spirit of spiritual restoration with songs like "River Of God", "Revival Is Here", "Here We Are" and "In Your Presence"
A complimentary CD will be given to each church upon request and individual purchases can be done via the following contact. All proceeds will go to local outreach.
Tel : 65 - 63443500 / fax : 65 - 63443600
Email : admin@churchofpraise.org.sg
Website : www.churchofpraise.org.sg |
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Burn |
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Alive! Conferences Worship captures the voice and heartbeat of a new generation of worshippers. Featuring melodies with words of hope, promise, revival, freedom and creativity, these songs inspire the passion and desire of every young person whose one purpose is to be the true worshipper that the Father seeks after.
In the Summer of 2003, about 800 youths from different churches and diverse denominations on Singapore gathered at the Cornerstone to worship Jesus and to seek His face. Everyone came together with a common desire to see this present youth generation realise their call and destiny in God... to become a generation that is marked by His Holy Fire!
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Here
I Am & Lead Us On - Eric Lee |
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 Eric Lee is one of Singapore's leading gospel musicians. He has penned two highly successful praise worship albums,
'Here I am', and 'Lead Us On' which have received rave reviews in Singapore and abroad in various organizations such as Radio Kingfisher in South Africa and the Christian Music Association in the US. Impact Magazine commends "meaningful lyrical writing" found in Eric's songwriting. Together with his band, 'a2J', they push the boundaries of contemporary praise worship music while keeping to their strong rooted faith in the message of Jesus Christ. Eric's music has been given airplay in radio stations in South Africa, USA and his songs have been translated into Cantonese and Mandarin in countries like Hong Kong and Taiwan.
'Here I am' focuses on the intimate relationship between the believer and his God as heard in the
piano orchestral piece, 'I just want to worship you' and the soaring ballad in
'Here I Am'.
'Lead Us On' captures the essence of dynamic contemporary praise and worship music. From the erhu strains in
'Strength of Your Grace', to the pop-dance style of 'Lead Us
On', Eric delivers a message of running the race of faith', no matter what the circumstance.
email: trikorian@yahoo.com
website: www.ericlee.net
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Sun
With Love - Ho Yeow Sun |
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Following the examples of many Gospel Artistes like Amy Grant or Michael W Smith who cross over into the secular market, Ho Yeow Sun has done exactly the same with her album Sun with Love. Having released many Gospel albums with the City Harvest Church, this is her first secular album. Originally released in Taiwan, Sun made waves with her concerts and MTV reviews. Within a few months, her album was also released Hong Kong and Singapore, with sales exceeding 150000 copies and still climbing , making her one of Singapore's top singing sensations.
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FUTURE by
City Harvest Church, Singapore |
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City Harvest
Church is a dynamic church in Singapore that has experienced phenomenal growth. Led by
their Senior Pastor Rev. H. Kong, the church has risen to new heights and caught the
attention of many in Singapore and beyond. This album captures the live and dynamism of
the church.
 The album is
produced by Yeow-Sun Ho and Richard Fowler. Sun-Ho has written several of the songs in the
album and sung most of the main vocals. She is a dynamic worship leader and has a love for
contemporary styles of worship. The music will especially appeal to the younger
generation. There is also some foreign input into the album. Certain songs and musical
arrangements were done overseas.
FUTURE captures the dynamic life and
spirit of the City Harvest Church, Singapore.
E-mail: cityharc@pacific.net.sg
Tel: (65) 440 7477
Fax: (65) 440 0608
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IT
IS NOW by Faith Community Baptist Church, Singapore |
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Faith Community
Baptist Church is well known for their Cell Church. Led by their Senior Pastor, Lawrence
Khong, the church has experienced phenomenal growth. Many churches across the world have
modelled their churches after FCBC's Cell Church concept.
 IT IS NOW is a live
recording of their church worship. Most of the songs are written by their own members. The
album is produced by John Koh, their Celebration Director and Robert Soo. John Koh , one
of Singapore's finest song writers, wrote many songs for this album. The title song
"IT IS NOW" is one of them and captures the spirit of the church and the urgency
of the Gospel.
The music styles in the album are
contemporary. However it does have some slower songs, like "All of my days"
which was written from a deep personal experience with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Tel : (65) 377 3286
Fax: (65) 377 3285
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STEPPING
INTO YOUR PRESENCE by Faith Community Baptist Church |
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STEPPING INTO YOUR
PRESENCE is the second live worship recording of FCBC. The album is produced by John Koh,
their Celebration Director. All the songs in the album are written by their own members.
Susan Choo, in particular has emerged as an anointed songwriter, contributing 4 songs for
the album. John Koh himself wrote 6 songs for this album.
The music is lively and captures the
dynamic spirit of the church. This album contains lively songs like "It is good"
and at the same time some reflective and anointed songs like "My heart is
renewed".
This album will draw you into God's
presence as you listen to it.
Tel: (65) 377 3286
Fax: (65) 377 3285
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EVERY
BREATH……with JT |
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Every Breath is a
contemporary praise and worship album by Jonathan Tan from Singapore released in February
2002. Jonathan is a worship leader and an emerging young song writer from Faith Community
Baptist Church. All the songs in the album are written by him. Jonathan with his band
recorded this album in a studio but still captured the worship aspects of his songs..
Most of the songs are guitar based and simple worship songs from the heart. The best
worship song in the album is probably "Each Day I Live". This song draws you
into God's presence, into the Father's arms. "I will offer my all" is a catchy
devotional song.
For more information, visit his website www.jtworship.com
E mail: webmaster@jtworship.com
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