ForeFront Records
ForeFront Records | |
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Parent company | Universal Music Group |
Founded | 1987 |
Founder | Eddie DeGarmo, Dan R. Brock, Dana Key, Ron Griffin |
Distributor(s) | Capitol Christian Music Group |
Genre | Contemporary Christian music, Christian rock |
Country of origin | United States |
Official website |
forefrontrecords |
ForeFront Records is a contemporary Christian music and Christian rock record label founded in 1987 by Dan R. Brock, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key, and Ron W. Griffin.[1] It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo and is a division of Universal Music Group under Capitol Christian Music Group.)[2]
In 1998, ForeFront released a two-CD compilation to celebrate their 10th Anniversary. The album was titled Ten: The Birthday Album and featured songs from several of their artists at the time. Some of the songs were remakes of older songs done by new bands.
Artists
Current
Former
- Abandon (active, currently independent)
- Audio Adrenaline (currently on Fair Trade Services)
- Michael Anderson
- The Benjamin Gate (disbanded)
- Big Tent Revival (disbanded)
- Bleach (currently independent)
- Clear (disbanded)
- Code of Ethics (active, on Razzbarry Records)
- Considering Lily (inactive)
- DeGarmo and Key (inactive)
- dc Talk (hiatus)
- Dizmas (hiatus)
- Eddie DeGarmo (inactive)
- Eli
- End Time Warriors (E.T.W.) (inactive)
- Mark Farner (active)
- Grammatrain (reunited)
- Guardian (currently independent)
- Holy Soldier (active)
- Larry Howard
- Iona (active, on Open Sky Records)
- Karthi
- Kevin Max (active, currently independent)
- Dana Key (inactive, died in 2010)
- Lil iROCC (active, with Jus Rock Records)
- Geoff Moore (active, with Rocketown Records)
- The Normals (disbanded)
- PAX217 (disbanded)
- Philmont (disbanded)
- Raze (disbanded)
- Rebecca St. James (active, with Beach Street/Reunion Records)[3]
- Satellite Soul (active, on Underdog Records)
- Serene and Pearl (changed name to Considering Lily, currently inactive)
- Seven Day Jesus (disbanded)
- Peter Shambrook
- Skillet (active, on Ardent Records/Atlantic Records)
- Smalltown Poets (hiatus)
- Pete Stewart (active)
- Steve Wiggins
- Stacie Orrico (active, Interscope, Polydor, (Red Light Management)
- TAIT (hiatus)
- This Beautiful Republic (disbanded)
See also
References
- ↑ Price, Deborah Evans (1996-07-13). "EMI buys Christian label ForeFront". Billboard Magazine. 108 (28): 5.
- ↑ Hendershot, Heather (2004). "Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music? Christian Music and the Secular Marketplace. Currently, Forefront Records is negotiating record contracts with hip hop, R&B, and other rock bands/artists.". Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-226-32679-9.
- ↑ "Music News, November 2010: REBECCA ST. JAMES PARTNERS WITH PROVIDENT LABEL GROUP". Jesusfreakhideout.com. 2010-11-18. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
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