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Biography
BLP sources|date=May 2008 Graham Kendrick (born on 2 August 1950, Blisworth , Northamptonshire ) is a prolific United Kingdom|British Christian singer-songwriter and worship leader . He is the son of a Baptist pastor . He now lives in Croydon and is a former member of Ichthus Christian Fellowship . Together with Roger T. Forster|Roger Forster , Gerald Coates and Lynne Green, he was a founder of March for Jesus .
Career
Kendrick began his songwriter|songwriting career in the late sixties. His most enduring accomplishment is his authorship of the lyrics|words and music for the song , " Shine, Jesus, Shine ", which is among the most widely heard songs in contemporary Christian worship worldwide. His other songs have been primarily used by worshippers in Great Britain|Britain . Kendrick is a co-founder of the March for Jesus . He received a Dove Award in 1995 for his international work. In 2000, Brunel University awarded Kendrick an honorary doctorate in Divinity ('DD') in "recognition of his contribution to the worship life of the Church". cite web| url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/songsofpraise/features/graham_kendrick/ | title=Graham Kendrick interview | publisher=BBC | accessdate=2008-05-16 Dead link|date=July 2010 He was awarded another DD in May 2008, from Wycliffe College in Toronto , Canada . cite web| url= http://www.wycliffecollege.ca/news_details.php? nid=166 | title=Wycliffe College to bestow honorary doctorates on vital leaders in the Christian Community | date=2008-04-30 | publisher=Wycliffe College, Toronto | accessdate=2008-05-16
Although now best known as a worship leader and writer of worship songs, Graham Kendrick began his career as a member of the Christian beat group Whispers of Truth. Later, he began working as a solo concert performer and recording artist in the singer/songwriter tradition. He was closely associated with the organisation Musical Gospel Outreach and recorded several albums for their record labels. On the first, Footsteps on the Sea, released in 1972, he worked with the virtuoso guitarist Gordon Giltrap .
Kendrick worked for a time as a member of "In The Name Of Jesus," the ground-breaking mission team led by the Rev. Clive Calver . Calver went on to run British Youth for Christ and the Evangelical Alliance , and then left the United Kingdom|UK for the Evangelicalism|Evangelical Church in the United States|U.S. Kendrick, however, has remained firmly fixed in the UK church, as probably the most influential Christian songwriter of his generation.
Kendrick also released "Let the Flame Burn Brighter" as a single (music)|single in 1989, which reached 55 in the UK Singles Chart .
He is a member of Compassionart , a Charitable organization|charity founded by Martin Smith (songwriter)|Martin Smith from Delirious? .
Popularity
Shine, Jesus, Shine is regularly highly placed in hymn popularity polls.cite web |first=Tim |last=Daykin |title=Top 40 Hymns |date=11 Sep 2006 |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/articles/2006/09/07/top_40_hymns_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC |accessdate=1 December 2009cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Petre |date=27 Oct 2005 |title=Hymns ancient and extremely modern top viewers' chart |work= The Daily Telegraph |url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501577/Hymns-ancient-and-extremely-modern-top-viewers-chart.html |accessdate=1 December 2009 Fellow songwriter and former Kendrick bandmember Stuart Townend has said, "I have no doubt that in 100 years time the name of Kendrick will be alongside Isaac Watts|Watts and Charles Wesley|Wesley in the list of the UK’s greatest hymnwriters".cite web |first=Stuart |last=Townend |year=2009 |title=Songs of Praise - Top 10 Hymns |url= http://www.stuarttownend.co.uk/resources/articles/songs-of-praise-top-10-hymns |accessdate=1 December 2009Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot Kendrick also has his critics, among them the right wing journalist Quentin Letts , who has described him as "king of the happy-clappy banalities"cite news |first=Damian |last=Thompson |date=12 Oct 2008 |title=Will happy-clappy Graham Kendrick wage spiritual warfare on Quentin Letts? |work= The Daily Telegraph |url= http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/5436745/Will_happyclappy_Graham_Kendrick_wage_spiritual_warfare_on_Quentin_Letts/ and "the nation's pre-eminent churner-outer of evangelical bilge".cite news |first=Quentin |last=Letts |date=8 Oct 2008 |title=50 people who've wrecked Britain |work= Daily Mail |url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1072329/QUENTIN-LETTS-50-people-ruined-Britain--final-roll-shame.html
Cite journal |first=Andy |last=Walton |month=April |year=2010 |title=Worship is more than intimacy |journal= Christianity Magazine |url= http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/features/graham-kendrick.aspx
Compassionart Use dmy dates|date=August 2010 Persondata | NAME = Kendrick, Graham | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 2 August 1950 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Kendrick, Graham Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:British performers of Christian music Category:People from South Northamptonshire (district) Category:Christian hymnwriters Category:English hymnwriters Category:Alumni of the University of Greenwich Category:English evangelicals Category:British New Church Movement Category:Musicians from Tunbridge Wells Category:People from Royal Tunbridge Wells
