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A Look Back to the Beginning of Selah

This box set is coming out the same year that we are celebrating 10 years in music and ministry. It was March 9th, 1997 that we did our first concert at Brook Hollow Baptist Church in Nashville, TN. Later that year on Father’s Day we went into a small studio on the 8th floor of United Artist Tower to record an independent CD for friends and family. We had done several concerts since that first one in March, and Nicol had been asked to sing for a youth group in Indiana. She invited Allan and myself along. I can remember driving up there wondering what we had gotten ourselves into. We hadn’t had time to write any original material for that first concert back in March, so we picked our favorite hymns and worship songs. Now we were going to sing these hymns for teenagers. I knew they were going to be so bored and laugh us off the stage. But something happened that night. There was such a connection with those teenagers. They worshiped, raised their hands, and sang the songs that they knew with us. One young man came up to Allan afterward and said "That It Is Well song, that’s a great song, did you guys write that one?" Allan reached for a hymnal and said "It’s right in here." Our parents were at the concert and afterwards my mom said we needed to record these songs. My grandfather had just passed away and left her an inheritance. Allan had a roommate, Jason, who was an engineer and Jason said that he could probably get us a great deal at the studio where he worked. We recorded our first CD Be Still My Soul in two weeks. The final budget was $2,000. We had no intention of being a group. Nicol had just signed a contract a couple of years earlier to Curb Records as a solo artist, Allan was trying to pursue session work in Country music, and I was going back to Detroit for two years to attend Bible college. We had no idea God used that night in Indiana to start a little trio called Selah.

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