| ForeFront Records | |
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| Parent company | Universal Music Group |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Eddie DeGarmo, Dan R. Brock, Dana Key, Ron Griffin |
| Distributor(s) | Capitol Christian Music Group |
| Genre | Contemporary Christian music, Christian rock |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Official website | forefrontrecords |
ForeFront Records is a contemporary Christian music and Christian rock record label founded in 1987 by Dan R. Brock, Eddie DeGarmo, Dana Key, and Ron W. Griffin.[1] It was purchased by EMI in 1996 from Dan R. Brock and Eddie DeGarmo, and is a division of Universal Music Group under Capitol Christian Music Group.[2]
In 1998, ForeFront released Ten: The Birthday Album, a two-CD compilation to celebrate their 10th anniversary that featured songs from several of their artists at the time with several song remakes of older songs performed by new bands.
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Artists
Current
TobyMac (also with Sparrow Records)
Former
- Abandon (active, currently independent)
- Audio Adrenaline (also on Fair Trade Services) (disbanded)
- Michael Anderson
- The Benjamin Gate (disbanded)
- Big Tent Revival (independent)
- Bleach (currently independent)
- Clear (disbanded)
- Code of Ethics (disbanded)
- Considering Lily (inactive)
- DeGarmo and Key (inactive)
- dc Talk (hiatus)
- Dizmas (hiatus)
- Eddie DeGarmo (inactive)
- Eli (inactive)
- End Time Warriors (E.T.W.) (inactive)
- Mark Farner (active)
- Grammatrain (inactive)
- Guardian (currently independent)
- Holy Soldier (inactive)
- Larry Howard
- Iona (active, on Open Sky Records)
- Karthi
- Kevin Max (active, currently independent)
- Dana Key (deceased)
- Lil iROCC (active, with Jus Rock Records)
- Geoff Moore (inactive, with Rocketown Records)
- The Normals (disbanded)
- PAX217 (disbanded)
- Philmont (disbanded)
- Raze (disbanded)
- Rebecca St. James (active, with Beach Street/Reunion Records)[3]
- Satellite Soul (active, new single STATIC released in 2020)[4]
- Serene and Pearl (changed name to Considering Lily, currently inactive)
- Seven Day Jesus (disbanded)
- Peter Shambrook
- Skillet (active, formerly on Ardent Records/ presently on Atlantic Records)
- Smalltown Poets (hiatus)
- Pete Stewart (active)
- Steve Wiggins
- Stacie Orrico (hiatus, currently independent/ (Red Light Management)
- TAIT (hiatus)
- This Beautiful Republic (disbanded)
See also
References
- ^ Price, Deborah Evans (July 13, 1996). "EMI buys Christian label ForeFront". Billboard Magazine. 108 (28): 5.
- ^ Hendershot, Heather (2004). "Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music? Christian Music and the Secular Marketplace. Currently, Forefront Records is negotiating record contracts with hip hop, R&B, and other rock bands/artists.". Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 56. ISBN 0-226-32679-9.
- ^ "Music News, November 2010: REBECCA ST. JAMES PARTNERS WITH PROVIDENT LABEL GROUP". Jesusfreakhideout.com. 2010-11-18. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- ^ "SATELLITE SOUL - Static Lyric Video (2021)". YouTube.
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