Been listening to my toby CD's lately; loving every bit.
Kevin Michael 'Toby' McKeehan (aka tobyMac)(b.1964) is based out of Nashville, TN. His start in the music industry was with famed dc Talk with fellow members Kevin Max & Michael Tait in 1987/8. They were signed to Forefront Records in 1988 & released a number of records before disbanding in 2000. tobyMac's debut solo album "Momentum" was released in 2001, still on Forefront Records, with whom he remains today.
Backtracking to 1992, he, alongside Joey Elwood & Todd Collins, started a company together, sporting "the same cropped beards & were together enough that people began to start calling them the 'goatee brothers'"*. After working with the music group Out of Eden & label shopping, they decided build their own. Gotee Records subsequently came about, & they've been the label for such acts as SonicFlood, Storyside:B, John Reuben, Family Force 5, & currently on their roster, Abandon Kansas, Jamie Grace, House of Heroes, Stephanie Smith, & Relient K.
There are currently plans in the making for a new & 4th studio album by tobyMac come 2012. This song is from "Portable Sounds", released in 2007, & was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrT7sqV14_E
& here's the live version from his live album "Alive & Transported"[2008]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6BYqGeLRk&ob=av2n
* - http://www.tobymac.com/about/gotee/
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