steven curtis chapman

Steven Curtis Chapman was born November 21, 1962 in Paducah, Kentucky. He started singing and released his song, “Built to Last” in the early 1980’s. He then signed with Sparrow Records. As of September 2005, he has sold over a million albums.

He lives in Franklin Tennessee with his wife Mary Beth and they have six children…three of which are adopted. Their marriage started out with them struggling financially. They turned to God in prayer. Then a few days later Mary Beth found out she was pregnant. Shortly after that, their apartment burned and they did not have any insurance. They moved in with friends and soon after Sparrow noticed his vocal ability and signed him on. The rest is history.

Steven and his wife have written three children’s books with the storyline of adoption. They are, Shaoey and Dot (2004), Shaoey and Dot: The Christmas Miracle (2005), and Shaoey and Dot: A Thunder and Lightning Bug Story (2006). Steven, along with minister Scotty Smith went on to write two more, adult inspirational books titled, Speechless (1999) and Restoring Broken Things (2005). He and his wife are advocates for adoption and have started a charity called Shaohannah’s Hope. This charity offers grants to defray the cost of adoption for qualifying families at home and abroad.

They have received the Angels of Adoption Award by a Congressional Committee for adoption in Washington, D.C. in September of 2001 and Steven has promoted the international charity World Vision. He is also involved in youth violence programs for promoting violence prevention since the shooting in 1997 at Heath high School.

In 2006, he performed in the first ever Christian concert for the troops in South Korea. He also went to Australia, New Zealand, China, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He toured with Greg Laurie’s Harvest Crusades in New Zealand.

To date he has over thirty-two awards either for songs, albums, or for himself as male vocalist of the year! He has released over 20 albums including three Christmas albums. Steven has sold over 9 million albums, two are certified, and 7 gold albums and 40 were number one hits.

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