Rebecca St. James
Rebecca St. James Bio
A multiple Dove Award winner as well as a winner of America’s
most prestigious musical Award—the Grammy®—Australian
born REBECCA ST. JAMES has throughout the late ‘90’s
until present been considered to be a major defining female
voice in contemporary Christian Music.
With the dawning of 2007, her groundbreaking album project
Pray has most recently achieved RIAA gold record status—following
in the footsteps of the previously gold certified RSJ album
God.
In January 2007, she was for the 6th consecutive year named
“Favorite Female Artist” in Contemporary Christian
Music by the more than 27,000 votes cast by readers of CCM
Magazine, considered the flagship publication of the Christian
genre. Rebecca also repeated with he “Best Female Artist
of 2006” award from one of Christian music’s highest
traffic music sites—Christianitytoday.com—her fourth
consecutive year to be given this honor With sales of her
music soaring around the globe, her signature blend of modern
pop/rock sensibilities and lyrics of unwavering devotion,
has blazed straight to the heart of an entire generation.
Along the road of more than 200 concert dates a year, her
path has led to 17 Top 10 singles--#9 of which reached the
#1 spot on the charts.
In April of 2006, she won yet another Dove Award--Christian
music’s highest honor—for her participation in the
“Special Event Album Of The Year”—for the Chronicles
of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, for which
her dramatically charged song Lion was a centerpiece.
CRW Magazine has named Rebecca to the list of the “50
Most Influential People in Contemporary Music.” Her book,
“Wait For Me,” now in a 9th printing reached the
#1 spot on the prestigious CBA (Young Adult) book chart in
2003, with Rebecca’s passionate, and often controversial,
challenge to young people to “stand strong” with
her on issues of sexual purity. She closed out 2004 with the
much anticipated release of her new book, “SHE,”on
Tyndale. An impactful “where the rubber meets the road
guidebook,” for women of her generation, in “SHE”
Rebecca gives a controversial and impassioned voice for a
modern womanhood based on a return to biblical principles.
The “teen” edition of the book—SHE TEEN—launched
in September of ’05—quickly reaching #1 on the CBA
Young Adult Chart. Her latest album If I Had One Chance To
Tell You Something released in November of ’05 from EMI.
One of the most anticipated albums in recent Christian Music
history, it contains Rebecca’s trademarked passion for
unique self-written music—from rock and pop to symphony—her
first full on studio album in five years If I Had One Chance
To Tell You Something sonically embraces her passionate lyrics
of devotion and praise to God.
January of 2006 found Rebecca in Rwanda, Africa for on the
ground mission work and the filming of a television special
in her role as a global spokes person for Compassion International.
She co-hosted the 2006 Dove Awards presented in Nashville
in April and in May of last year gave a prestigious special
performance for President George W. Bush at the White House
in Washington, D.C.
With the opening of 2007, Rebecca St. James is in March launching
the much anticipated Worship Revolution Tour with fellow international
Christian rock band Delirious? Courtesy rsjames.com
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