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Infobox musical artist | name = Glenn Kaiser| image = Glenn Kaiser.jpg| caption = Glenn Kaiser playing at Cornerstone Festival (2004)| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1953|1|21|mf=y| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee , Wisconsin , U.S.| death_date =| origin =| instrument = Guitar , Harmonica , Lap steel guitar | genre = Blues-rock , Heavy metal music|heavy metal , Rock music|rock , R& B | occupation = Musician, Pastor | years_active = circa|c. 1965–present| label = Grrr Records|Grrr | associated_acts = Resurrection Band , Glenn Kaiser Band| website = URL| http://www.glennkaiser.com| notable_instruments = Fender Stratocaster , Epiphone Sheraton , Gibson Les Paul Glenn Kaiser (born January 21, 1953cite web |url= http://www.resurrectionband.com/|title=Resurrection Band Website biographies |accessdate=2007-03-23) is a Chicago -based Christian blues musician, singer-songwriter and pastor . He was the leader of Resurrection Band and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band.
Personal life
Childhood
Kaiser's older brother and sister left the house while he was still youngcite book |last= Powell |first= Mark Allan |title= Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music |origdate= |origyear= 2002 |publisher= Hendrickson Publishers |isbn= 1-56563-679-1 |pages=467–469 |year= 2002 |month=August and his parents divorced when he was nine years old. Kaiser was active in Milwaukee's music scene, starting at the age of twelve, and was a member of more than twelve bands, leading two, before reaching nineteen years of age.cite web |url= http://www.glennkaiser.com/bios.cfm |title=Glenn Kaiser Biography |accessdate=2007-03-23
Glenn Kaiser was raised as a nominal Lutheran and experimented in drugs before he became a born-again Christian, around the time of his eighteenth birthday. He was quoted as saying: "Nothing else gave me so much happiness or sense of purpose until I asked Jesus Christ to Salvation#Christianity|come into my heart and become absolute Lord of my life."
JPUSA
Kaiser joined and got involved in The USA Traveling Team of Jesus People Milwaukee (later renamed Jesus People USA http://www.jpusa.org/lessons1a.html), where he met Wendi, his future wife. Wendi's brother, John Herrin, Jr., and Glenn later became members of the pastoral team before the age of twenty-five. JPUSA is the community that organizes the Cornerstone Festival , at which Glenn Kaiser and Resurrection Band have played.
Later life
Glenn Kaiser married former Resurrection Band member Wendi Kaiser|Wendi Herrin (born April 8, 1953) in June 1972.cite web |url= http://www.askwendi.com/bio.html |title=Wendi Kaiser Biography |accessdate=2007-03-23 Glenn and Wendi have one son, Aaron, and three daughters: Rebecca (husband Matt), Heidi, and Amy (husband Brian). In 1994 Glenn Kaiser published a book, The Responsibility of the Christian Musician .cite book |last=Kaiser |first=Glenn |title=The Responsibility of the Christian Musician |year=1994 |publisher=Cornerstone Press Chicago |location= Chicago, Illinois |isbn=0-940895-22-6
Resurrection Band
main|Resurrection BandGlenn Kaiser's most successful and prominent band is Resurrection Band. Personnel included his wife Wendi, Wendi's brother John Herrin, Jim Denton, who was later replaced by Roy Montroy in 1987, and Stu Heiss. It began in mid-December 1971 as a band of the Jesus People of Milwaukee (part of The USA Traveling Team ) and was first known as "Charity" (the King James Version of the Bible|King James Bible term for "love"). It was a traveling team and a mobile outreach of Jesus People of Milwaukee until the ministry disbanded in the summer of 1972. "Charity" changed its name to "Resurrection Band" around March 1972 and the band, as part of The USA Traveling Team left Milwaukee for the last time in early June 1972. They performed on the road for a few months, while loosely-based in Florida, before calling Chicago home in early 1973 with Jesus People USA. Though many considered it "the devil's music,"Resurrection Band helped the movement of Contemporary Christian music towards blues and rock music . It disbanded, after nearly thirty years, in 2000.
Although the band did indeed break up in 2000, they have recently got together for a few reunion shows. Resurrection Band performed at Cornerstone Festival 2008 for the festival's 25th anniversary and also performed at the Chelsea House, a Chicago coffeehouse run by JPUSA. The key members of the band were the same at both shows, but Mike Choby (the bassist for Maron (band) , another Jesus People USA band) filled in on keyboards.
Live Bootleg (Resurrection Band album)|Live Bootleg (1984)
XX Years Live (1992)
Compilation Albums
The Best of REZ: Music to Raise the Dead (1984)
REZ: Compact Favorites (1988)
The Light Years (1995)
Music to Raise the Dead 1972-1998 (2008)
Glenn Kaiser Band
Winter Sun (2000)
Carolina Moon (album)|Carolina Moon (2001)
Blacktop (album)|Blacktop (2003)
GKB Live (2005)
Octane (Glenn Kaiser Band album)|Octane (2008)
Solo and other albums
Trimmed and Burnin (1990, as Kaiser/ Darrell Mansfield|Mansfield )
Slow Burn (1993, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
All My Days (1993)
Spontaneous Combustion (1994)
Into the Night (1995, as Kaiser/Mansfield/ Larry Howard|Howard )
Throw Down Your Crowns (1997)
You Made The Difference in Me (1998, Review: http://web.archive.org/web/20010713013634/www.hmmagazine.com/issue72/72Albums.htm HM Magazinecite journal |last=McGovern |first=Brian Vincent |year=1998 |month=July/August |title=Album Reviews: GLENN KAISER You Made the Difference in Me |journal= HM Magazine |issue=72 |pages= |issn=1066-6923 )
Time Will Tell (1999, Review: http://web.archive.org/web/20010717025343/www.hmmagazine.com/issue78/78AlbumReviews.htm HM Magazinecite journal |last=Van Pelt |first=Doug |year=1999 |month=July/August |title=Album Reviews: Glenn Kaiser time will tell |journal= HM Magazine |issue=78 |pages= |accessdate= |issn=1066-6923)
Blues Heaven (1999)
Ripley County Blues (2002)
No Greater Love (2002, as "Glenn Kaiser and Friends")
''Trimmed and Burnin' & Slow Burn (2002, as Kaiser/Mansfield)
Persondata|NAME=Kaiser, Glenn |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION= Blues musician, singer-songwriter , pastor |DATE OF BIRTH=January 21, 1953 |PLACE OF BIRTH= Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= DEFAULTSORT:Kaiser, Glenn Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Musicians from Chicago, Illinois Category:Gospel blues musicians Category:American performers of Christian music
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