Brownwood News – Contemporary Christian Music artist Carman will be performing in concert on Saturday, August 12th, at Victory Life Church, located at 901 CC Woodson Road. The concert will begin at 6 p.m.
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General seating tickets will be $15. Preferred seating tickets will cost $25 and VIP tickets will be $100. The VIP tickets will include VIP seating, meet and greet after the concert, photos with Carman, as well as a t-shirt, VIP tour bag and concert DVD.
For tickets, visit: carmen-concert-victory-life-academy-inc.echurchevents.com
Carman, widely considered one of the pioneers of the contemporary Christian music movement, has received 15 gold and platinum albums and videos and has sold over 10 million records. He holds the world record for the largest single Christian concert in history. He was the main act in August 1993 in Johannesburg, South Africa with more than 50,000 in attendance, and he performed at Texas Stadium with 71,132 attendees.
From the artist’s official site:
Carman Domenic Licciardello is an enigma in Christian music, often described as part evangelist, part Vegas Showman. His concerts were more like a rock and roll Billy Graham Crusade than a Christian music event. After all the singing, dancing, clapping and preaching, throngs of people would stream down to the counseling area to accept Christ, as many as 5,000 in an evening.
If there is any original trademark to Carman’s repertoire, it could be considered a ‘story song’ style. A combination of drama, rock, comedy, funk, satire, acting, singing, and preaching, all woven together by an unpredictable wit that can only be described as a full length feature film in 7 minutes.
Carman released his first LP, “God’s not finished with me”, which garnered the attention of CBS, following in 1982 with the “Some-O-Dat” LP. A string of CCM chart successes began with his song “Sunday’s On the Way” from the live album of the same name in 1983. Soon after, he would establish two major non-Profit organizations. Carman Ministries and Carman World Outreach.
Between 1987 and 1989 Carman was named Charisma Magazine’s Readers’ Choice for the first “Favorite Male Vocalist of the Year.” In 1990 Billboard Magazine recognized Carman’s influence in Christian music by naming him the first “Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year.”