kristian stanfill - acoustic guitar and lead vocals
joe thibodeau (ti-bah-dough) - drums and programming
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
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
i'm married. have been for 4 years. my wife's name is kerri and we have a 2 year old son named isaac. we're in love with Jesus and each other. we live in quiet little cumming ga. i love my family and i love what i do.
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). i quickly fell in love with songwriting.
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 pull to lead people to love God through music. i didn't know what that was all about but i started leading songs in my eighth grade sunday school class. i was terrible and it was mostly disastrous. 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 and we began dating our freshman year. around that time i had the opportunity to start leading at north point community church.
over the next few years i pulled together some of my best friends to play music with me. we started traveling and leading together. at the end of 2008 i joined up with sixstepsrecords and we started work on our first record.
it's been a pretty unplanned journey to where we are today...we're excited about the future.
I'm sooo excited!! My youth group is going to Orange Beach this week for Studentlife camp and I saw that you are going to be there!! We saw you at the Live Love conference and loved your music!!! That just makes us even more excited to see you all week!!!
You did great at Atlanta Fest.! I loved how you got the Kenya Kids to come out and sing with you.! I love your songs.!! Hope you'll be there next year.!
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Hey, Awsome new songs Kristian... AWSOME....So far, im the only one who listented to the bottom two, but thats ok... they are good, so all yall who havent took a few minutes out to listen to them, DO SO...
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