Matt Gilman

Gilman was born on July 15, 1985 in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota to a Lutheran-preacher father, Thomas Richard Gilman, and mother, Patricia Lynn Monnier.[1][2][3][4] He started leading worship services at his father's church, when he was 14 years old.[2] He graduated high school in 2002, and subsequently relocated to Kansas City, Missouri to join International House of Prayer, and this is where he was based out of for a decade, until his departure in 2012.[5]

Matt Gilman has twin sons, Isaac and Caden.[5] Currently living in Orlando, Florida and travels monthly to Influence Church in Anaheim Hills, CA to lead worship.

Gilman's music career commenced in 2008, with the co-released album, Holy, with Cory Asbury, and it was released by Forerunner Music on July 10, 2008.[6][7][8] His second album, 'Awaken Love, was released on August 27, 2013 by Forerunner Music.[6][9] The album was his breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, where it placed on the Christian Albums chart at No. 19 and on the Heatseekers Albums chart at No. 8.[10] Matt Gilman is presently part of an artist collective known as Influence Music that was birthed out of Influence Church in Anaheim Hills, CA. http://influencemusicofficial.com Matt Gilman has been leading worship since he was fourteen years old, having grown up in ministry with his father, a Lutheran pastor. In 2002, when Matt was a senior in high school, he arrived at the International House of Prayer of Kansas City thinking he was just attending a conference about music, his favorite subject. “As soon as I walked into the building, I knew this was different. It was not at all what I was expecting. God began to shake me to the core as He opened up a whole new understanding of worship with the Word of God. I knew right away this is what I was made for.” After serving for ten years as a worship leader in the prayer room at the International House of Prayer, Matt took up a position with Orlando House of Prayer. As An artist, Matt has over 27k monthly listeners on Spotify and averages 300K plays per track. In January 2017, Gilman visited Influence Church in Anaheim California to guest speak and Worship Lead. What he found was a creative community dedicated to releasing the glory of God through new sounds and songs. Matt currently travels to Anaheim once a month to lead worship and co-write with the team, “Influence Church is a body of believers that truly acts as the hands and feet of Jesus. It has been a place of deep healing, refreshing, restoration and musical inspiration for me. I’m so honored to get to run with such an amazing and authentic group of people that I get to call my family. “

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