Michael W. Smith

Michael W. Smith is one of America's top Contemporary Christian Music singer-composers winning 40 Dove awards and 3 Grammy Awards over the last two decades. Proficient in the piano he wrote his first song by the age of five and found his faith at the age of ten.http://www.michaelwsmith.com/bio.html He moved to Nashville started his career touring with Amy Grant in 1982 as a keyboardist and composer.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809363/bioAmy Grant's managers so impressed by his musicality that they formed their own record label Reunion Records to sign him on along with an uprising star Kathy Troccoli. The following year. Michael became Grant's opening act with his debut album, The Michael W. Smith Project which gained enough momentum to earn him his first Grammy award.http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Smith,_Michael_W./Biography/

Smith headlined his own tours thereafter but it wasn't until his 8th album in 1990 Go West Young Man that he gained national attention with his Top #5 Billboards Chart hit song, "My Place In This World" which earned him an American Music Award.http://www.shoutlife.com/profile_view.cfm?uid=2004 Michael experience some heat from the Christian community for his secular success but he stayed true to his roots and continued to perform Gospel Music.http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Smith,_Michael_W./Biography/

In 1988 Michael reunited with Amy Grant on her tour, Lead Me On to which he helped composed the title cover song. Ten years later he would join forces with Steven Curtis Chapman to co-headline "The United Tour."http://www.livedaily.com/news/14639.html

Spreading his creative wings Smitty has acted in three movieshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809363/ and penned 10 books to date.

Married to Deborah (Debbie) Kay Davis and they have five children: Ryan Whitaker, Whitney Katherine, Tyler Michael, Anna Elizabeth and Emily Allison. Michael and his wife live on their family farm in Franklin, Tennessee.

Michael currently is in the studio working on his latest album which is due to be released this fall on September 28, 2010.

• 1983: TheMichael W. Smith Project (GOLD)
• 1984: Michael W. Smith 2
• 1986: The Big Picture
• 1987: The Live Set
• 1988: I 2 Eye (GOLD)
• 1989: Christmas (GOLD)
• 1990: Go West Young Man (PLATINUM)
• 1992: Change Your World (PLATINUM)
• 1993: The First Decade 1984-1993 (GOLD)
• 1995: I'll Lead You Home (PLATINUM)
• 1998: Live the Life (GOLD)
• 1998: Christmas Time" (GOLD)
• 1999: This is Your Time (GOLD)
• 2000: Freedom (GOLD)
• 2001: Worship (PLATINUM)
• 2002: Worship Again (PLATINUM)
• 2003: The Second Decade 1993-2003
• 2004: Healing Rain (GOLD)
• 2006: The Second Chance - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• 2006: Stand
• 2007: It's A Wonderful Christmas
• 2008: A New Hallelujah - Live

1. Old Enough To Know
2. It's Time To Be Bold
3. Friends Are Friends Forever
4. Your Place In This World
5. This Is Your Time
6. Cooking With Smitty's Mom
7. Where's Whitney?
8. I Will Be Your Friend
9. Worship
10. The Price of Freedom