Christian Music Online

Christian music singer / songwriter Jeremy Camp

March 17, 2006 – 7:35 pm

Christian sensations - Montgomery is about to come unplugged.

Award-winning Christian music singer/songwriter Jeremy Camp brings his Live Unplugged Tour to the Capital City on Friday at the First Baptist Church, 305 S. Perry St.

The tour is in support of Camp’s latest release, “Live unplugged: Jeremy Camp,” which came out at the end of last year and has sold over 100,000 units.

Camp is coming off a big 2005 that included the hit single “Take You Back,” which ranked as the No. 1 song of the year on Radio and Records’ year-end Christian AC and CHR charts.

His debut album, “Stay,” and the follow-up, “Carried Me: The Worship Project,” both went gold; his third album, “Restored,” is closing in on that honor. In less than three years, Camp’s music and videos have shipped over 1.5 million copies.

Camp recently recorded a song that was featured on “Music Inspired By: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” the companion soundtrack to the hit Disney film. He is also the reigning Gospel Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year.

The acoustic tour is a tribute to the beginnings of Camp’s career, when he started out leading college Bible studies and touring with just an acoustic guitar.

But with his success has come tragedy — he lost his first wife to cancer.

Turning a negative into a positive, he has provided comfort to others by sharing her story with others.

Camp recently remarried (his wife Adrienne is the former front woman for the group Benjamin Gate), and is a new father to daughter Isabella Rose.

Opening for Camp is 17-year-old Bethany Dillon.

Dillon’s self-titled debut featured the No. 1 single “All I Need” and the top-five single “Beautiful,” which was also the top-selling female solo debut in Christian music that year. She garnered Gospel Music Association Music Award nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year.

Her second album, “Imagination,” was released in the fall of last year and has received critical acclaim.

Dillon also was featured on the “Chronicles of Narnia” album, and also had the title track “Dreamer” from last year’s film “Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story,” which starred Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning.

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