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We have a beyond believable panel of judges for the 2020 WorshipTheRock.com Worship & Christian Songwriting Contest! See who they are and learn a bit more about them:
Bryan Boliver
Bryan Boliver is a producer, songwriter and artist based out of Florida. He is currently working with Praiseworthy Publishing writing and producing music for sync placements in Film and TV. Bryan has collaborated with Grammy and Dove Award winning songwriters, producers and engineers. His productions specialize in a wide variety of genres including: worship, pop, rock, folk and CCM.Bryan has been writing music for over 20 years and he has a passion to help artists craft songs to align with their vision and branding. In just over a year, his productions have had over 1 million streams on Spotify. His music has also been featured on multiple Spotify editorial playlists and he is currently featured on over 2,000 Spotify playlists. Bryan has been producing music for Christian artists from all over the world. He loves helping artists take their songs from work tape, voice memos to release-ready masters. Bryan also helps with tips, strategies and coaching to make sure each song gets the biggest impact on release day and beyond. |
Jeff Calhoun
As a Pastor and Creative leader in the United Methodist Church, Jeff has helped revitalize older traditional churches by introducing new, relevant worship experiences to their congregations. Jeff has served in leadership in churches ranging in size from 300 to 3000 as well as working as a Worship Ministry Consultant helping churches through transition and growth in excellence, engagement and authenticity through worship. As a guitarist he has written, recorded, produced, arranged and performed with artists in CCM, Country, Blues, Rock, and Jazz and even played tuba in a polka band. For 15 years, Jeff backed up Dove Award winning CCM Artist Al Denson as guitarist, vocalist, bandleader, and featured speaker at concerts, conferences, and television productions. For over 30 years, Jeff has produced and recorded independent artists as well as his own solo and collaborative works. Jeff is available for consulting, session work, recording and producing. He excels at taking your lyrics and melody ideas and bringing them to life.
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Kellie & Kristen
Kellie and Kristen Fuselier are twin sisters with a singular purpose – to see the glory of God both exalted and delighted in by people from every nation. Nashville, TN, is where both live, work, and serve at their local church - Church Of The City. Music has been a constant for the girls throughout their lives, Kellie singing from the time she was just three years old and Kristen picking up her first instrument at age eight. The pair have ministered through music in some capacity for more than ten years. They each felt God whisper the call as teenagers. “Our task has been to serve here, locally, in our church and our community,” explains Kellie. “But this is a new season, one we feel the Lord has been preparing us for over the last decade.” While being rooted and grounded in the local church is of utmost importance to the sisters, the time to reach out to the universal church has come. In January 2016, the team released their first EP entitled "We Receive" which hit #43 on the Christian & Gospel iTunes chart during its debut weekend. Their first full length album entitled "In The Name" was released in May 2019 which landed at #12 on the Christian & Gospel iTunes chart on its release date. Both We Receive and In The Name were recorded by Georgia-based producer Sean Hill (Uphill Studios, Dacula, GA). |
Trey Hill
"2018 WTR Songwriting Contest Winner!" Trey Hill is a songwriter, worship leader, and associate worship pastor at Belmont Church on Music Row in Nashville, TN. He has led worship since he was in middle school and has had a desire to use the gift of music to glorify God and serve people ever since. Having a dad who was a musician and a worship leader for the local church gave him the insight at a young age to understand not only the dedication it takes to become accomplished at music, but the dedication it takes to remain obedient to what the Lord has called you to. Trey started writing music in high school and began to form a strong appreciation for worship music in particular. While Trey’s main focus is on writing songs to glorify the Father for the local church, he also loves writing pop music as well and enjoys working with other artists on their material. Trey has released several worship albums over the years as well as solo artist music, but is now focused on releasing worship music under the imprint of Revive Worship, the music collective under the ministry Revive Events. Their latest single “Only You (feat. Kimber)” was released on August 28, 2020 and is streaming worldwide. Additionally, Trey co-hosts the podcast “Uncle Trey and Austin’s Bible Study Hangout,” a weekly verse-by-verse look at different books of the Bible and maybe sometimes restaurant reviews. Trey is also the worship leader and on the board of directors for Revive Events, a non-profit community based in Nashville that puts on leadership and spiritual development events and camps for middle- and high-schoolers in the Gulf Coast and Tennessee regions. Trey has been involved with Revive since 2009 and most of his songs are a reflection of that community. Trey lives in Nashville, TN with his beautiful wife Betsy and their children, Mallie and Davis. |
Nathan GiffordNathan grew up in the church as a PK (Pastor’s Kid) and was involved in the worship band from a young age. Growing up, he played saxophone in his dad's church, but also in various worship bands, events, camps and recording projects. He graduated from Indiana University School of Music with a performance degree on saxophone. While in college, he began doing some worship leading, which lead to a full-time music pastor position right after graduating, which is also when he began writing worship music. Nathan served in that capacity for about 8 1/2 years. Then he switched gears and started his own business, while doing music ministry "part-time". He took on the worship leadership in a church plant and helped grow the church to about 550 members in 8 years. Nathan has recorded 9 live worship CDs and been a part of many others during his 20 years of worship leading experience. Much of what has been recorded over the years has been original music. He is also the co-founder of WorshipReady.com, which is the parent company of WorshipTheRock.com. Nathan and his wife, Rebecca, have 9 kids. Four are older and out of the house (2 married). Four of the kids were foster placements for 2 years, then adopted earlier this year. They live in Fort Collins, Colorado. |