Children of the Day & Marsha were featured on Justin Ryan's Southern Gospel Sissy
Podcast from Yass Jesus!
Click here to hear Marsha's interview with Azariah Southworth on the Yass, Jesus! podcast. Or to read Kaen Beishuizen’s article, https://ringsidereport.com/?p=122538 click on the link.
Marsha's Notes
I wrote below about having written my first song over 50 years ago. But here we are in 2022 and I think everyone is struggling with something. Happily, Nashville musicians know how to pull off remote recording sessions, so I put out a new CD/recording called Stand Closer. It was released on Apple Music and iTunes, but if you're a little older, like me, you may still want a CD. If you do, let me know!! And leave some message about how you like it!! Justin Ryan made a music video of it that you can see here:
Well 1969 was clearly a big year in the world, since I am far from the only one celebrating 50 years about now. It was the summer that set the course of my life. Meeting Jesus put, as Jeremiah put it, a fire in my bones (Jer. 20:9) to share my new faith with my friends. First, in 1969 being a new Christian in high school in Southern California was definitely NOT cool - and Lord knows, we were all desperate to be cool. But history would record that the song I wrote for my friends that summer would be the beginning of a new genre of music. Then, ten years later, as Contemporary Christian music (CCM) became cool, I was the first CCM artist to come out of the closet. Once again I was, you guessed it, UNcool. But the fire in my bones never left...
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Marsha's book now available on recorded books! Click on the cover for ordering information, or go to Audible.com, amazon.com, or other booksellers to order.
"If Larry Norman is to be called the father of Christian Rock, then Marsha Stevens certainly deserves to be known as the mother of contemporary Christian music, a title that Christian Century and others have bestowed upon her. She was the leader of what is considered to be the world's first contemporary Christian music group, Children of the Day, and she has continued as a solo artist to produce albums of worship-oriented and edifying adult contemporary pop. As such, she remains the progenitor of what, by 2002, would become the single most popular genre in the contemporary Christian music market." - Excerpt from "The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music", Sept. 2002