{"id":1097,"date":"2010-02-10T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html"},"modified":"2010-02-10T10:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T10:02:35","slug":"brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ubLobZqp80w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ubLobZqp80w&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><\/object>Brandon Heath recently won a Midsouth Regional Emmy Award for his blockbuster hit &#8220;Give Me Your Eyes,&#8221; which served as the catalyst for Nashville Rescue Mission&#8217;s Hunger to Hope 2009 PSA Campaign, produced by NewsChannel 5&#8217;s Jerry L. Walker, WTVF-TV (CBS).Adding to the excitement, the song was chosen by NASA as the 5:14pm CT wake-up call for the Endeavour shuttle crew, on their first day in orbit, in honor of first-time flyer Pilot Terry Virts, who is a fan of Heath&#8217;s music. Virts invited Heath to join his family as a special guest at the launch yesterday from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (The video above is what the astronauts heard.)Cool, huh?<!--more-->In a press release, Brandon said, &#8220;Having my song included in a PSA talking about serving the poor was hugely rewarding. The Emmy is a nice statue, loving Nashville&#8217;s homeless is monumental. I&#8217;m especially grateful to WTVF NewsChannel 5, and Jackie Pillers, and to Jerry Walker for the idea.&#8221;&#8221;Give Me Your Eyes&#8221; appears on Brandon&#8217;s 2008 Grammy-nominated sophomore album, <em>What If We.<\/em> The album has delivered back-to-back No. 1 singles with &#8220;Give Me Your Eyes,&#8221; which captured 14 weeks at No.1 on Billboard&#8217;s Hot Christian AC radio chart, plus 27 weeks at No. 1 on iTunes Christian Song Chart, with 439,000 total digital downloads. The second single &#8220;Wait And See&#8221; topped Billboard&#8217;s Christian AC Indicator chart in July 2009. The album&#8217;s current single &#8220;Love Never Fails&#8221; moves into Top 20 at Billboard&#8217;s AC Monitored this week.Brandon has been featured on &#8220;CBS Evening News with Katie Couric&#8221; and spotlighted in the Sunday edition of The New York Times.For more about <a href=\"http:\/\/brandonheath.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Heath, visit his website.<\/a>More <a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=81&#038;tag=Brandon%20Heath&#038;limit=20\">Gospel Soundcheck posts about Brandon Heath.<\/a><i>Got a gospel or Christian music news tip? <a href=\"mailto:joanne@joannebrokaw.com\">Send me an email!<\/a><\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/joannebrokaw\" target=\"_blank\">follow me on Twitter!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Heath recently won a Midsouth Regional Emmy Award for his blockbuster hit &#8220;Give Me Your Eyes,&#8221; which served as the catalyst for Nashville Rescue Mission&#8217;s Hunger to Hope 2009 PSA Campaign, produced by NewsChannel 5&#8217;s Jerry L. Walker, WTVF-TV (CBS).Adding to the excitement, the song was chosen by NASA as the 5:14pm CT wake-up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-music-in-mainstream"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter - Gospel Soundcheck<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brandon Heath recently won a Midsouth Regional Emmy Award for his blockbuster hit &#8220;Give Me Your Eyes,&#8221; which served as the catalyst for Nashville Rescue Mission&#8217;s Hunger to Hope 2009 PSA Campaign, produced by NewsChannel 5&#8217;s Jerry L. Walker, WTVF-TV (CBS).Adding to the excitement, the song was chosen by NASA as the 5:14pm CT wake-up&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-02-10T10:02:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joanne Brokaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter - Gospel Soundcheck","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter - Gospel Soundcheck","og_description":"Brandon Heath recently won a Midsouth Regional Emmy Award for his blockbuster hit &#8220;Give Me Your Eyes,&#8221; which served as the catalyst for Nashville Rescue Mission&#8217;s Hunger to Hope 2009 PSA Campaign, produced by NewsChannel 5&#8217;s Jerry L. Walker, WTVF-TV (CBS).Adding to the excitement, the song was chosen by NASA as the 5:14pm CT wake-up&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html","og_site_name":"Gospel Soundcheck","article_published_time":"2010-02-10T10:02:35+00:00","author":"Joanne Brokaw","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html","name":"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter - Gospel Soundcheck","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-02-10T10:02:35+00:00","dateModified":"2010-02-10T10:02:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/#\/schema\/person\/80efa9662d1538af82f15e223a742cad"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2010\/02\/brandon-heath-wins-emmy-and-ha.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Brandon Heath wins Emmy and has space shuttle encounter"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/","name":"Gospel Soundcheck","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Joanne Brokaw","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/#\/schema\/person\/80efa9662d1538af82f15e223a742cad","name":"Joanne Brokaw","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/d58\/d580addf2c7c4b8b71371832be8d3d0cx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/d58\/d580addf2c7c4b8b71371832be8d3d0cx96.jpg","caption":"Joanne Brokaw"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.joannebrokaw.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/author\/jbrokaw"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}