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Phil Driscoll (born November 9, 1947 in Seattle, Washington), is a Grammy Award winning singer and composer perhaps best known for his trumpet playing. He is also known as a Christian minister and public speaker. Driscoll won a Best Gospel Performance Grammy for a duet with Debby Boone on "Keep the Fire Burning," [1] has been nominated for two additional Grammy's for Best Pop Album and Best Gospel/Pop Album [2] and has won numerous other national awards for his music, including the Christian Country Music Association Award for Best Musician and Canadian Country Musical Association's Musician of the Year.[3]
Background
Driscoll grew up in a musical family and began taking music lessons in school when he was a fifth grade student at Lancaster, near Dallas, Texas. His family moved to Tulsa in 1959, where he began to study trumpet both in classes at Bell Junior High School and as a private student of Roger Fenn (3rd trumpet with the Tulsa Philharmonic). While in high school he won the Amsterdam World Music Festival and he was offered numerous music scholarships to college, choosing Baylor. In his sophomore year he released his first album, "A Touch of Trumpet." In his senior year he entered a CBS television network national talent search competition and won.[4]
By the 1970s Driscoll was touring and recording with major music acts, including Stephen Stills, Leon Russell, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Joe Cocker, as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra. After becoming increasingly involved with illegal drug use, Driscoll became a Christian in 1987, gave up using drugs, and dedicated his musical efforts to furthering the Christian faith.
Driscoll has recorded over two dozen albums in genres including gospel, classic rock, jazz, pop, patriotic, children's ("Gabe and the Good news Gang"), hymns, and classical music. He has worked with top session musicians, such as Abraham Laboriel, Bill Maxwell, Justo Almario, and Greg Mathieson. Between 1999 and 2002, Driscoll recorded several albums that featured the organ playing of the late Billy Preston.
Some of his most recent albums include I Exalt Thee (re-released in 1998), Spirit of America (2000), Classic Hymns (2004), and Vintage (2004). The album Vintage included Driscoll's version of the rock classic single "Old Time Rock and Roll."[5]
Phil Driscoll has performed for several United States presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, and has played at many national events, including the dedication ceremony for Bill Clinton's presidential library in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the memorial services following the Columbine High School massacre.[6]
Music Ministry
In 1981, Driscoll recorded his first album, "Ten Years After," sharing his new-found Christian beliefs. In 1983, he released "I Exalt Thee," winning a GMA Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year and he also garnered his first Grammy nomination, for Best Pop/Gospel Album. He won several other Dove Awards for Album of the Year and Best Instrumentalist. He was affiliated with the ministry of Kenneth Copeland from the 1980s, playing and singing at many KCM Believers' Conventions and, in the 90's, toured to packed crowds with "Handel's Young Messiah." [7] Driscoll has been ordained as a Christian minister and he has a ministry, called Mighty Horn, through which he teaches about Biblical praise and worship, and also teaches church musicians how to excel in their work.
Tax Evasion
In 2006, Phil Driscoll and his wife Lynne Driscoll were the subjects of a U.S. Federal Court indictment which charged that the Driscoll's had used their Cleveland, Tennessee-based Christian music ministry in an income-tax cheating scheme, failing to report more than $1 million in income and evading the payment of more than $300,000 in taxes from 1996 to 2000.[8] Also indicted was Lynne Driscoll’s mother, bookkeeper Chris Blankenship, who died just before the trial. It was testified that their ministry took in as much as $2.8 million annually, and according to the prosecution, Phil Driscoll owned an airplane, drove a Porsche, and used money funneled through Mighty Horn Ministries (later renamed Phil Driscoll Ministries and relocated to Eatonton, Georgia), to buy and sell lake houses.[9] Rick Blankenship, brother of Lynne Driscoll and former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas, testified on behalf of the prosecution that he had worked for Mighty Horn Ministries until he became concerned that “there was little or no differentiation between personal and ministry expenses."[10] On June 8, 2006, Phil Driscoll was found guilty on 2 counts of tax evasion and one count of conspiracy, and was sentenced to serve one year in Federal prison, beginning on March 14, 2007. Lynn Driscoll was found not guilty on two out of three charges and the jury reached a deadlock on a third charge of tax evasion. Prosecutors elected to not retry the case.[11]
Current
Phil Driscoll is married to wife and partner, Lynne Driscoll. Phil has a son,Shawn Driscoll, by his previous marriage to Patti McDavitt. He and Lynne have two children: Jamie and Danielle. Phil had lived in Cleveland, Tennessee, since the early 1980s. He has moved to Georgia where he operates his Mighty Horn ministry. Driscoll is actively recording music in the fields of pop, gospel, country, classic rock, patriotic and classical under his own label, Phil Driscoll Music Group, including "Songs in the Key of Worship" and "Here and Now," both released in 2008. Driscoll tours and performs concerts all around the country.[12]
Discography
- 2008: Here and Now
- 2008: Songs in the Key of Worship
- 2006: Drops Of Praise
- 2003: One Nation Under God
- 1999: Simple Song
- 1999: Plugged In
- 1999: The Quiet
- 1998: I Exalt Thee 1998
- 1997: Live Praise and Worship
- 1997: Live! With Friends
- 1996: A Different Man
- 1995: Selah Volume 2
- 1995: Selah Volume 1
- 1995: In His Presence
- 1993: Heaven And Nature Swing
- 1992: The Picture Changes
- 1991: Classic Hymns Vol 2
- 1990: Inner Man
- 1990: Warriors (Dayspring)
- 1990: Gabe And The Good News Gang
- 1988: Classic Hymns Vol 1
- 1987: Make Us One
- 1986: Amazing Grace And Other Favorites
- 1986: Instrument Of Praise
- 1986: The Spirit Of Christmas
- 1985: Power Of Praise
- 1984: Celebrate Freedom
- 1983: Covenant Children
- 1983: I Exalt Thee
- 1983: Songs of the Spirit, Volumes 1 and 2
- 1982: Sound The Trumpet
- 1982: What Kind Of Love
- 1982: Songs in the Spirit Volumes 1 and 2
- 1981: Ten Years After (Sparrow)
- 1978: Acclaimed and Framed
- 1972: A Touch Of Trumpet
- 1970: Blowin' A New Mind (Word)
References
- ^ http://grammys.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx
- ^ http://www.mp3.com/artist/phil-driscoll/summary/
- ^ http://www.mp3.com/artist/phil-driscoll
- ^ http://www.phildriscoll.com
- ^ http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditunes/?q=phil+driscoll
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/phil-driscoll-1
- ^ http://www.phildriscoll.com/biography
- ^ "Phil Driscoll Found Guilty Of 3 Counts Of Tax Evasion". The Chatanoogan. September 18, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Trumpeter Phil Driscoll convicted in tax case". MSNBC. June 8, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Phil Driscoll's Brother-In-Law Is Surprise Government Witness". The Chatanoogan. May 10, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ "Government Will Not Retry Lynne Driscoll". The Chatanoogan. September 18, 2006. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ^ Itinerary Page