It's officially 25 days to the biggest Christmas Carols Festival in the world and we are excited! It's been months of massive preparation and we can boldly say that we're set to experience the best Christmas Carol Festival ever!
As part of the countdown, we will bring you profiles of the top singers that will headline this festival! For starters, let's take a look at the big fish himself - Don Moen.
Donald James "Don" Moen was born on the 29th of June, 1950. Don is an American singer, songwriter, Pastor and producer of some compelling Christian Worship music.
Before Moen was hired to work for Integrity Music, he attended Oral Roberts University and became a Living Sound musician for Terry Law Ministries and traveled with Terry Law for ten years. He produced 11 volumes for the Hossana! Music series of worship albums. His first album under his own name, Worship with Don Moen was released in 1992. His music has total global sales of over five million units.
Moen worked for Integrity Media for over 20 years, serving as creative director and president of Integrity Music, president of Integrity Label Group, and an executive producer of Integrity Music albums. He left Integrity Media in December 2007 to start a new initiative, The Don Moen Company.The Don Moen Company acquired MediaComplete, the church software company that created MediaShout. Moen became a radio host for Don Moen & Friends in 2009.
Moen has received a Dove award for his work on the musical God with Us in addition to amassing nine nominations for his songs.
Moen is a prolific songwriter, having worked with Claire Cloninger, Paul Overstreet, Martin J. Nystrom, Randy Rothwell, Ron Kenoly, Bob Fitts, Debbye Graafsma, Paul Baloche, Tom Brooks, and lately, Nigerian gosple act - Frank Edwards, among many others. He has worked with talented musicians, Justo Almario, Carl Albrecht, Abraham Laboriel, Alex Acuna, Paul Jackson Jr., and Chris Graham. He was a major catalyst in launching the careers of Paul Baloche, Israel Houghton and many others.
On 17th of December 2016, Don Moen will lead over 30, 000 live worshippers and millions who will be watching on live TV to sing and worship at the 2016 edition of the Akwa Ibom Christmas Carol Festival. You definitely cannot afford to miss this!
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