Following the Unexpected Path: David Crowder and Francesca Battistelli

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🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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David Crowder and Francesca Battistelli are Christian music artists trying their best to follow wherever God leads them to create, even if they end up somewhere unexpected. In 1996, while he was still a student at Baylor University, David and a few of his friends formed popular Christian rock and modern worship music group, The David Crowder*Band. The group went on to win numerous Gospel Music Association Dove Awards and were nominated for a GRAMMY. After 16 years together, and just having released the number 2 album in the world behind Adele,the band decided to part ways. Crowder went on to perform as a solo artist and has just released a new album called I Know a Ghost. Today David shares how his parents and growing up in church shaped his path, and how, through this latest album, he came to recognize the power of God’s spirit living inside each of us. Francesca Battistelli has been a recording artist for more than a decade, all the while touring and raising her young family. Today Francesca tells us about her Broadway musical background, how she strives to be a courageous example for her children, and why she’s thankful God sent her back to the drawing board more than forty times until she had written all the songs for her new album called Own It.

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0:00.0	I think for me if I were to sum up my journey it's that it's always these unexpected
0:06.0	turns that someone near me or close to me can see something in myself that I can't see and shove me into a thing that I feel ill-equipped
0:16.7	to partake of.
0:19.0	And that's really my whole attorney.
0:21.4	Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast.
0:24.0	Today's guests are two Christian music artists trying their best to follow wherever God leads them to
0:29.6	create, even if they end up somewhere unexpected.
0:33.0	David Crowder and Francesca Baddestelli.
0:36.0	First up, while David Crowder was still a student at Baylin University in 1996,
0:42.0	he and a few of his friends formed popular Christian rock and
0:44.7	Modern Worship Group, the David Crowder Band. The group put on to win numerous Gospel
0:50.2	Music Association Dove Awards and were nominated for a Grammy.
0:54.5	After 16 years together, and just having released the number two album in the world behind
0:58.9	Adele, the band decided to part ways. Crowder went on to perform as a solo artist and has just
1:05.0	just released a new album called I Know a Ghost.
1:08.0	Today David shares how his parents and growing up in church shaped his faith and how through his latest album he came to recognize the power of God's
1:17.0	spirit living inside each of us.
1:20.0	My name is David Crowder. I make music under the artist named Crowder, which is my last name,
1:27.0	and I've been making church music since I was a part of a church start when I went to school at Baylor University and that's what leads me to get to talk to wonderful people like you
1:36.9	is making this music that I feel like God's just breathing through me for the church to sing and
1:41.5	respond to him through so that's what I'm up to right now.
1:44.5	I grew up in Texarkana, Texas and it's a unique it's a unique geographic location
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