A multiple Dove Award winner as well as a winner of America's most prestigious musical Awardthe Grammy®Australian born REBECCA ST. JAMES has throughout the late '90's until present been considered to be a major defining female voice in contemporary Christian Music.
With the dawning of 2007, her groundbreaking album project Pray has most recently achieved RIAA gold record statusfollowing in the footsteps of the previously gold certified RSJ album God.
In January 2007, she was for the 6th consecutive year named "Favorite Female Artist" in Contemporary Christian Music by the more than 27,000 votes cast by readers of CCM Magazine, considered the flagship publication of the Christian genre. Rebecca also repeated with he "Best Female Artist of 2006" award from one of Christian music's highest traffic music sitesChristianitytoday.comher fourth consecutive year to be given this honor With sales of her music soaring around the globe, her signature blend of modern pop/rock sensibilities and lyrics of unwavering devotion, has blazed straight to the heart of an entire generation. Along the road of more than 200 concert dates a year, her path has led to 17 Top 10 singles--#9 of which reached the #1 spot on the charts.
In April of 2006, she won yet another Dove Award--Christian music's highest honorfor her participation in the "Special Event Album Of The Year"for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, for which her dramatically charged song Lion was a centerpiece.
CRW Magazine has named Rebecca to the list of the "50 Most Influential People in Contemporary Music." Her book, "Wait For Me," now in a 9th printing reached the #1 spot on the prestigious CBA (Young Adult) book chart in 2003, with Rebecca's passionate, and often controversial, challenge to young people to "stand strong" with her on issues of sexual purity. She closed out 2004 with the much anticipated release of her new book, "SHE,"on Tyndale. An impactful "where the rubber meets the road guidebook," for women of her generation, in "SHE" Rebecca gives a controversial and impassioned voice for a modern womanhood based on a return to biblical principles. The "teen" edition of the bookSHE TEENlaunched in September of '05quickly reaching #1 on the CBA Young Adult Chart. Her latest album If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something released in November of '05 from EMI. One of the most anticipated albums in recent Christian Music history, it contains Rebecca's trademarked passion for unique self-written musicfrom rock and pop to symphonyher first full on studio album in five years If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something sonically embraces her passionate lyrics of devotion and praise to God.
January of 2006 found Rebecca in Rwanda, Africa for on the ground mission work and the filming of a television special in her role as a global spokes person for Compassion International. She co-hosted the 2006 Dove Awards presented in Nashville in April and in May of last year gave a prestigious special performance for President George W. Bush at the White House in Washington, D.C.
With the opening of 2007, Rebecca St. James is in March launching the much anticipated Worship Revolution Tour with fellow international Christian rock band Delirious?
