Christian singer?

Continuing the discussion from How do you fined out where your album was released?:

Why is this artist commented as a Christian singer?
Isn’t religion part of his private life? What value does it have?
Atheist rocker, buddhist rocker, I don’t think we should include religions in disambiguation comments, should we?

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Sorry, replying to myself.
It seems to be a genre?

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Yep, Christian music and it’s looks like Steve Green is one of the major contempory artist of this genre.

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Slightly more relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Christian_music

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'cos it is a popular area of music. Just have a read of Steve Green’s Wikipedia page and follow a few more of the links. It is a Huge genre. There are a lot of labels directly specialising in it. And many artist’s planet wide working in the field.

There is also Jesus Music - which I thought you may have been aware of :smile:

The main reason that Steve Green got his (christian singer) added was because of confusions already caused with a different Steve Green within the MB database. It is a very common name so the wrong Steve had been credited for work.

If you have been following any of @st3v3p’s edits he has been cleaning up a lot of the Christian Music from his own rather large collection. A lot of the previous data here at MB was very scrappy. I’ve been chasing down the rabbit holes with him at times and it is fascinating seeing all the connections.

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Thank you, it’s scary. :smiley:

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Clearly the genre includes most of Bach.
As well as Tavener, Paart and much Bob Dylan.

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Nope. Followers of the genre can get very persnickety about what is and isn’t official Christian Music. Back in the ancient times, I was a DJ at a college radio station, and my show followed a Christian Rock show. If I was a few minutes late, I’d come in and the DJ’s would be playing U2. They liked U2 because of their use of Christian themes, but because the band was on a “regular” label and not a dedicated Christian label, they didn’t play U2 during their show.

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