Newsboys歌手简介:
在90年代，更多的媒体接触基督教的摇滚乐队，Newsboys成立于八十年代末期的围绕一个核心，约翰詹姆斯，彼得Furler ，和菲利普Urry 。在某个程度上，Newsboys的曲风很多变，Newsboys在他们的音乐之路上，创作了许多好听的歌曲。2年前，他们曲风的转移主要是由于乐队对音乐的独特的理解。焕然一新的Newsboys发现被崇拜不仅仅表现为销售记录的多少，而是变化。大部分那种激情反映在他们的专辑上，热爱，源于精神上的激励，激励他们重新对音乐加以认识，并让他们意识到，摇滚虽然只是暂时性的，但是他们音乐王国的建立是他们会一直持续下去的唯一的事。
by John Bush One of the more media-exposed Christian rock bands of the '90s, Newsboys formed in the late '80s around a core of John James, Peter Furler, and Philip Urry. Though early in their career the band was panned for a perceived over-reliance on religious clichés in their lyrics, Newsboys later grasped secular music's alternative revolution in the early '90s for an image makeover, with good results. The group gained six number one singles on the Christian charts, and have been featured in more secular media outlets than the average Christian band. Step Up to the Microphone, their first album for major label Virgin, followed in 1998; Love Liberty Disco appeared a year later. In celebration of the new millennium, the Newsboys also observed their own career with the greatest-hits package Shine...The Hits, issued in fall 2000. Their most elaborate work to date, Thrive, was issued in spring 2002 and led to one of their biggest CCM hits ever, "It Is You." Over ten years into their own career, that fall Newsboys Remixed was released, offering new takes on several of their biggest hits. The band issued Adoration: The Worship Album in April 2003. The record included both originals and Newsboy versions of well-known worship songs. Guitarist Jody Davis left the Newsboys in late 2003 in order to care for his daughter, Bethany, and Byan Olesen took his place for a little over a year. He left in 2004 to work on his own band, Casting Pearls, just after the Newsboys released their second worship album, Devotion. Paul Coleman, an Aussie singer/songwriter, came aboard as the band's new guitarist, and the next two years found the band touring the globe and working on the songs that would become their first pop album in four years, Go. That album, released in October 2006, was the first to be released on the band's own Inpop Records.