{"id":530,"date":"2009-02-09T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/brandon-heath-noted-by-ny-time.html"},"modified":"2009-02-09T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T10:54:52","slug":"brandon-heath-noted-by-ny-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/brandon-heath-noted-by-ny-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Heath Noted By NY Times As An Artist You Shouldn&#8217;t Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BrandonHeathWhatIfWe.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/BrandonHeathWhatIfWe.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/08\/arts\/music\/08play.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times noted Brandon Heath<\/a> recently as a Grammy nominee who shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to slip through the cracks or get lost in the overwhelming number of artists that were up for awards yesterday.<br \/>\nHeath didn&#8217;t win in the Best Pop\/Contemporary Gospel Album (the award went to CeCe Winans) or Best Gospel Song (that one went to Kirk Franklin), but that shouldn&#8217;t dampen his spirits. Last April, he scored a Dove nomination for Songwriter of the Year and a win as New Artist of the Year. His sophomore album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/07\/brandon-heaths-new-single-tops.html\" target=\"_blank\">What If We<\/em>, which released last August, debuted at or near the top of Christian music charts<\/a>.<br \/>\nIn addition to his chart topping music success, Heath is a worship leader at The Loft church located in The Woodlands, just north of Houston.<br \/>\nBrandon Heath is currently on the Winter Jam tour, and joins <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/12\/third-day-announces-2009-revel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Third Day for the Revelation tour<\/a>. For more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/brandonheath.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Heath&#8217;s website.<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. Just sign up for the RSS feed by going to the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; box on the right hand side of this blog and entering your email address.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times noted Brandon Heath recently as a Grammy nominee who shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to slip through the cracks or get lost in the overwhelming number of artists that were up for awards yesterday. Heath didn&#8217;t win in the Best Pop\/Contemporary Gospel Album (the award went to CeCe Winans) or Best Gospel Song (that&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-530","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 Noted By NY Times As An Artist You Shouldn&#039;t Miss - 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\/2009\/02\/brandon-heath-noted-by-ny-time.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brandon Heath Noted By NY Times As An Artist You Shouldn&#039;t Miss - Gospel Soundcheck\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The NY Times noted Brandon Heath recently as a Grammy nominee who shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to slip through the cracks or get lost in the overwhelming number of artists that were up for awards yesterday. 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