Matt Redman

Matt Redman functions as a worship leader and leading CCM singer/songwriter whose inspiring songs, shaped by rock and pop influences, have earned him worldwide recognition. Emerging in the mid-1990s, his first major breakthrough arrived with the 2002 album Where Angels Fear to Tread. His trajectory advanced over the following decade after he relocated from England to the United States, securing the initial Dove Award among many in 2005 for the song “Blessed Be Your Name.” The standout track “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” featured on the 2011 album 10,000 Reasons, achieved broad impact when the single ascended to the top of the U.S. Christian charts in 2012 and brought the artist two Grammy Awards. His subsequent projects, the 2013 live recording Your Grace Finds Me and the 2015 release Unbroken Praise: At Abbey Road Studios, also reached number one on the Christian charts, while 2020’s concert album Let There Be Wonder preceded the 2023 studio set Lamb of God.

Raised in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Redman embraced Christianity at age ten. During his teenage years he took up guitar, and at twenty he co-founded the Soul Survivor movement with evangelist Mike Pilavachi. Between 1993 and 2000 he issued five independent albums of guitar-driven Christian rock while serving as worship leader at Soul Survivor Church in Watford. A sabbatical in the United States yielded his sixth album, Where Angels Fear to Tread, his first to appear on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart, where it peaked at number 38. Co-written with his wife, Beth Redman, the track “Blessed Be Your Name” gained wider attention through a cover by the South African group Tree63. Redman revisited the song on the 2005 compilation Blessed Be Your Name: The Songs of Matt Redman, Vol. 1, which received a GMA Dove Award for Worship Song of the Year. Building on this success, he joined Atlanta-based Six Steps Records and delivered two further studio albums that crossed over onto the pop charts, by which time he had accumulated additional Dove Awards and published several books on Christianity.

Redman reached his greatest commercial height in 2011 with the chart-topping release of “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” a worship ballad that has become a staple of Christian music. Appearing on the album 10,000 Reasons, the song earned double-platinum certification and two Grammy Awards. With his profile elevated, Universal-owned Sparrow Records issued a 2012 anthology of earlier material and, in partnership with sixstepsrecords, released the 2013 live album Your Grace Finds Me and the 2015 studio album Unbroken Praise: At Abbey Road Studios, both of which reached number one on the U.S. Christian chart; the latter also marked his highest U.K. pop-chart placement at number 58. After the 2016 holiday collection These Christmas Lights and 2017’s Glory Song, he moved to the Integrity label for the 2020 live album Let There Be Wonder and its acoustic studio companion, Let There Be Wonder (Acoustic).

Now residing in California, Redman launched the podcast Redman & Riddle with fellow worship artist Jeremy Riddle. He returned to studio recording in 2023 with Lamb of God, his fourteenth album.