The Christian music group NewSong was originally a 9-member church band for Morningside Baptist Church in Valdosta, Georgia before they gradually branched out to other churches. In 1981, four of the nine - Eddie Carswell, Billy Goodwin, Eddie Middleton and the late Bobby Apon - made the decision to pursue music and ministry full-time. Goodwin recalled in the band's online biography that it was at a high school assembly, when the four sensed the turning point. "In a real way, God sort of just showed up there," he said. "We just gave a concert and at the end, by a show of hands, virtually every student in the place had made a decision for Christ. We asked a coach if we could ask students to come forward, and suddenly there were 700 kids walking toward us. The whole community was changed. We knew it wasn't a question of 'if,' but rather 'when.'"
After recording self-released albums in 1981, NewSong signed on with Covenant Records, and released The Son In My Eyes the next year. 2000's Sheltering Tree was their first album to reach the Billboard 200, peaking at #130. It featured as a bonus track their mainstream hit single "The Christmas Shoes." 2011's One True God, which reached #27 on the Billboard 200 is their most successful album to date.
Throughout the years, and changes in the group, NewSong have accumulated numerous #1 radio singles, including 1997's "Miracles," which was named American Songwriter magazine's '97 Christian Song of the Year. That same year, NewSong was voted 'Group of the Year' by industry trade journal Christian Research Report.
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