David Meece
| David Meece | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 26, 1952 |
| Origin | Humble, Texas |
| Genres | Gospel music, Inspirational |
| Occupations | Christian music singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Keyboards, Piano |
| Years active | 1980–present |
David Meece (born May 26, 1952) is a Contemporary Christian musician who enjoyed success in the mid 80s throughout the early 2000s with more than 30 Top 10 hits (several reaching #1).
Growing up in Humble, Texas, with an abusive, alcoholic father, David found solace in playing the piano. By his mid-teens he was touring in Europe and the USA. He went on to study music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he met his wife, Debbie, who plays the viola. David and his wife currently live in Franklin, Tennessee.[1]
David worked with Canadian songwriter/producer and Juno Award winner Gino Vanelli for his albums Chronology and Candle In The Rain. Meece is perhaps best known for his songs "We Are The Reason" (which has been recorded by well over 200 other artists and sung in several languages according to Meece's website),[2] "One Small Child"[3] and "Seventy-Times-Seven".[4]
Meece was called upon to guest appear in Billy Graham Crusades, among other outreach groups and television broadcasts. He was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame on June 14, 2008 [5] and received the 2009 Visionary Award for the Inspirational Male Soloist category.[6]
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[edit] Discography
- David (1976)
- I Just Call On You (1977)
- Everybody Needs A Little Help (1978)
- Are You Ready? (1980)
- Front Row (1982)
- Count The Cost (1983)
- 7 (1985)
- Chronology (1986)
- Candle In The Rain (1987)
- Learning To Trust (1990)
- Once In A Lifetime (1993)
- Odyssey (1995)
- Send Down The Rain (advertised for December 26, 1995 but never released)
- There I Go Again (2002)
- David Meece: The Definitive Collection (2007)
[edit] Music styles and use
Possibly due to his conservatory training, David uses pieces of classical piano works as intros or settings for some of his songs. For example, in the song "This Time" from the album Learning to Trust, the opening section of the song (as well as the bridge and ending tag) is from Frédéric Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude" (Op. 10, No. 12) in C minor. The introductory melody for "You Can Go", from the album 7, is taken from the Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A Minor (BWV 784) by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Because of the prevalent use of synthesizers, "You Can Go" is sometimes incorrectly connected to an advertisement in the early 1980s for Commodore 64 which used the Bach Invention played by a synthesizer.) Also, "Falling Down" from Count the Cost is based on a sonata by Mozart.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- DavidMeece.com - The official David Meece website.
- TheBeginningsConcert.com - Reunion Concert Event.
- Video Interview with David Meece
