alex nifong (n-eye-fong) - guitars and vocals ||| joe thibodeau (ti-bah-dough) - drums and programming ||| kristian stanfill - acoustic guitar and lead vocals ||| matt melton - guitar and vocals ||| tim gibson - bass and skateboarding tricks
Influences
TOP 5 BANDS ::: U2, death cab for cutie, copeland, angels and airwaves and FEE (with jason upton coming in at a close 6th) ::: TOP 5 ALBUMS ::: everything you want - vertical horizon, how to dismantle an atomic bomb - U2, PLANS - death cab, music for the morning after - pete yorn, left of self centered - butch walker ::: TOP 5 SONGS ::: fields of gold - sting, passenger seat - death cab, on your side - pete yorn, sons and daughters - jason upton, call to arms - angels and airwaves ::: TOP 5 SONGWRITERS ::: brooke fraser (omg), ben gibbard (death cab), aaron marsh (copeland), pete yorn, steve fee ::: TOP OVERALL ::: Jesus, my wife kerri, my son isaac, songwriting, relationships, IPA
everyone has a story...this is mine. my wife kerri and i have been married for 4 years and we have an amazing son isaac who is sixteen months old. we live in quiet little cumming ga. i love my family and i love what i do. i am a worship leader/songwriter. i haven't always been a worship leader. when i was a kid i didn't even know what worship was, but i knew that i loved music. i remember the first time that music moved me. i was riding with my dad in the car and we were listening to the eagles. the song was hotel california and i had never heard anything like it. more than that...i was fascinated by how this music made me feel. something deep in me was awakened and i've been pursuing the song ever since. after i devoured the eagles record i moved on to billy joel (songs in the attic, the stranger). then i discovered christian music. i started with steven curtis chapman and dc talk. i was and still am a sucker for a good hook. pretty soon after that i found my dad's old guitar and he taught me a few chords. i immediately started writing songs...they were awful songs, but i couldn't stop writing. there is something so special about songwriting...like you're tapping into the supernatural or something like that. about that time i ended up at a summer camp with my youth group and God changed the course of my life forever. i felt this inexplicable call be on stage and lead people to love God through music. i didn't know what that was all about but i started leading (i use the term "leading" loosely at this point...it was more like surviving) songs in my eighth grade sunday school class. it was mostly a disaster scattered with a few really cool "only-God-could-do-that" moments. those few cool moments was enough for me to realize that there was something deeper coursing beneath the world i could see and feel. it was that realization that sparked a huge desire to continue leading worship songs. i continued leading through middle and high school at my church in marietta ga until i graduated high school and went to birmingham al to attend samford university. i met kerri at samford...whoa momma! it was there i decided i wanted to be a pop signer instead of a worship leader. i started writing songs about life and love. this was a good stage for me because it taught me how to write songs. that lasted for a few years until i had some wise friends say, "i think that maybe the pop singer thing isn't for you." around that time an opportunity arose for me to start leading at north point community church in alpharetta ga. i was 18. i am now 25 years old. the steps that have led me to today have been unplanned and unpredictable. i wake up everyday and shrug my shoulders and say, "what's gonna happen today God?" it's been quite an adventure and im almost positive the future is going to be a lot of the same...cool!
lol james david cracks me up with his comment. but i think everyone agreed that we missed you at bigstuf this year! they said you took a break from it which i would want to also since its like your summer life... so hows it going?
hey i was just wondering if you were still doing camp bigstuff? you were amazing last year. i just got back from camp today and i was wondering if you were comming back next year?
Thanks for the add. Hey will you guys be singing in texas any time soon. And do ya'll plan on singing in Durango, Colorado at the 2010 student Life Camp because I am bumbed that i can't see ya'll in branson.
KRISTIAN! i am so excited about BigStuf camp next week in Panama and i am surely hoping that you will be there considering you've been there the past 2 years i've gone in panama and daytona. Hope to see you there next week, if not i'll be disappointed : (
LaTech was INCREDIBLE. thanks for what you do - it was awesome to experience what God is doing in and through you. (i needed that) Great to see you again after all these years and along the winding paths taken to where God has us today. Jeremy Maxfield @ TCASC (fellow traveler along The Way)
hey i just wanted to thank yall for singing at our camp this summer, it was the Rockwall Journey camp. but i just wanted yall to know that and I Need You Jesus is one of my favorite christian songs now. Everyone one of yall are amazing.
HEy Kristian!!! I dont know if you remember me... BUT..i was the girl at Student Life that got you to do the SOULJA BOY!!!! lol!!!GOOD TIMES!! ~~and i took yous ARMY MAN!!! but yea your amazing!!! so what have you been up to??? ~~♥♥♥~~
Kristian! hi i dont know if you remember me but i am the girl who went up to you and asked you to write hi lauren! you were so awesome at louisiana tech..i hope your there next year where we go to student life...may i ask when you knew doing this for God is what he wanted for you?
dude!u r so awsome i know im like the millionth person who told u that!?! but i think ur amazing ur life is awsome u rocked at student life! i think u have a amazing voice and i hope u and ur wife and ur cute kid will always be amazing and u and ur band will keep on rocking ur lead guitar guy is awsome he can play so amazingly awsome and ur bass guy is awsome! and ur drummer is so funny!!! u guys r so awsome and i hope this is u reading this not some guy u pay to check ur myspace! but u keep on rockin with ur band and ur life!
Kristian!!! Sup man...Dallas, Texas Repping it up. I'm the youth minister with a wife that has your name remember? lol anyways we will be in LA Tech with you and we are excited. I've had a bummed out summer so far because I broke my leg and i'm off it for about 6 months...Hopefully we get to see you maybe in our church small group again
hey kristian , i just got back from bigstuf 08 camp on thursday & it was trully amazing .&& i hope to go next year i was w/ northside baptist church .&& i took a pic w/ you . but iam your #1 fan && i love you
hey kristian; whats up well i totally love your music .:) && i just wanted to say i went to bigstuf camp a few weeks ago it was awsome && a great experience for me && my youth group && we really enjoyed it && the beach was gorgeous .:) && u might remeber me i took a pic w/ u it was me a black girl who is kinda wacko , blonde girl(who like loves you) and a curly brown. well if not that's okayy . well right back if you can i whould love to hear from you .:) well have fun w/ bigstuf see you next year hopefully. bye.
It was such a blessing to be led in worship by you again at Journey O8... I am praying for you and all that you are doing... God is using you to impact the lives of many... Always & In Him, Rachel D.
Thanks for the add! Your music is awesome! I've been wondering how I can get a cd of yours ever since the Student Life ski trip this winter. The only one I have found is the "God of This City" album. I like it a lot but it only has one of your songs on it...
