Nichole Nordeman
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Nichole Ellyse Nordeman (born January 3, 1972) is an eight-time Dove Award-winning contemporary Christian
Contemporary Christian music
Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...

 American singer–songwriter
Singer–songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

.

Biography

Nordeman was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...

, where she played the piano in church. She got her start when she entered a Gospel Music Association
Gospel Music Association
The Gospel Music Association was founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of Gospel music. There are currently about 4,000 members worldwide...

 (GMA) contest in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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 and was noticed by a music producer.

She has won multiple GMA Dove Awards, including two awards for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her best-known songs include "Why", "This Mystery", "Holy", "Legacy", "Brave", and "What If". She also sang a song on the soundtrack Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia, called "I Will Believe."

Nordeman wrote an editorial column for CCM Magazine
CCM Magazine
CCM Magazine was a monthly magazine published by Salem Publishing, a division of Salem Communications. It was first published in July 1978, and it has always been a Christian music magazine. On January 16, 2008, Salem announced that the April 2008 issue would be the final printed issue of the...

 called "Loose Ends . . . Confessions Of An Unfinished Faith." She recorded the album Brave after giving birth to her son Charlie. Nordeman released the greatest hits album Recollection: The Best of Nichole Nordeman on March 6, 2007 featuring two new songs: "Sunrise" and "Finally Free".
Her song, "Real To Me" was featured on the PlayStation 2 game Thrillville.
Her song "Crimson" on the album Brave is composed of original lyrics written by Nordeman sung over a Chopin piano prelude.
Nichole made a cameo in the movie Tribulation. A continuation of the popular Apocalypse movie series.
Her song "Hold On (Love Will Find You)" was recorded by Paul Brandt
Paul Brandt
Paul Rennée Belobersycky is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break...

 for his album Risk
Risk (Paul Brandt album)
Risk is the fifth studio album by Canadian country music singer Paul Brandt, released on September 11, 2007 on Brandt's own record label, Brand-T Records.-Track listing:All songs written by Paul Brandt except as noted....

, released in 2007.
Nichole co-wrote the song "Forever Now" with American singer-songwriter David Wilcox. "Forever Now" is on Wilcox's Airstream album, released in the US on February 26, 2008.
She also wrote and recorded the song "Beautiful for Me" for the VeggieTales
VeggieTales
VeggieTales is an American series of children's computer animated films featuring anthropomorphic vegetables in stories conveying moral themes based on Christianity...

 movie entitled: "Sweetpea Beauty", released summer of 2010.

In 2011, Nordeman was approached to create a concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 for Zondervon's The Story campaign, in which churches nationwide go through nearly the entire Bible in one school year, realizing the overarching story that affects everyone. Nordeman accepted and wrote 17 songs written from a first person perspective of characters of the Bible and applying them to today. This collection, called (Music Inspired by) The Story, featured 24 popular CCM
CCM
- In music :* Contemporary Christian music, a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith** CCM Magazine, a magazine that covers Contemporary Christian music...

 artists and debuted at #11 on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums chart in September 2011.

Discography

  • 1998: Wide Eyed
    Wide Eyed (Nichole Nordeman album)
    Wide Eyed is a 1998 album by Nichole Nordeman. It peaked at number 16 on the Top Contemporary Christian chart and number 29 on the Heatseekers chart.-Critical reception:The album has received mixed to positive reviews. Dacia A...

  • 2000: This Mystery
  • 2002: Woven & Spun
  • 2003: Live at the Door
  • 2005: Brave
  • 2007: Recollection: The Best of Nichole Nordeman
    Recollection: The Best of Nichole Nordeman
    Recollection is a greatest hits collection from six-time Dove Award-winning artist Nichole Nordeman. It compiles songs from her albums Wide Eyed, This Mystery, Woven & Spun and Brave, such as "Holy " and "Why?", and also includes two brand new songs, "Finally Free" , and "Sunrise"."Sunrise", which...

  • 2008: Two For One: Wide Eyed/Brave
  • 2009: Nichole Nordeman: The Ultimate Collection


Singles
  • 2003: "Legacy" / "This Mystery" (CD Single)
  • 2010: "Beautiful For Me" / "Veggie Tale's Sweetpea Beauty" (CD Single)

Other Releases
  • 1999: Heaven & Earth: A Tapestry of Worship (Jennifer Knapp
    Jennifer Knapp
    Jennifer Lynn Knapp is an American-Australian folk rock, and formerly contemporary Christian musician. She is best known for her first single "Undo Me" from her debut album Kansas , and the song "A Little More" from her Grammy Award-nominated album Lay It Down . The Way I Am , was also nominated...

    , Nichole Nordeman, Michelle Tumes
    Michelle Tumes
    Michelle Tumes is a popular Australian Contemporary Christian musician. Michelle was born in Adelaide, Australia.-Career:Tumes first signed with an Australian publisher, but soon after moved to the United States to write songs for CCM musicians such as Jaci Velasquez...

    , Rebecca St. James
    Rebecca St. James
    Rebecca St. James , is a Christian pop rock singer, songwriter, musician, author, and actor. She began performing in Australia in the late 1980s and released her first full-length studio album in 1991. In 1993 she was signed to the record label ForeFront Records and released her major label debut a...

    , Margaret Becker
    Margaret Becker
    Margaret Becker is an American Christian rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has had twenty-one No. 1 Christian radio hits, won four Dove Awards, and been nominated for four Grammy Awards.-Biography:...

    )
  • 2011: (Muisc Inspired by) The Story (all songs written by Nordeman, featuring Nordeman, Matthew West
    Matthew West
    On July 26, 2002, only a week or two before signing a record contract with Universal South Records, West had an injury to his left arm which threatened his musical career and guitar playing. He says, "I locked myself out of my house. But I'd done that before, and I had a way of breaking in through...

    , Leigh Nash, Natalie Grant
    Natalie Grant
    Natalie Grant is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. Her work has gained prominence, including four consecutive Dove Awards for best female artist, and with her signature song, Held...

    , Steven Curtis Chapman
    Steven Curtis Chapman
    Steven Curtis Chapman is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist.After starting his career in the late 1980s as a singer/songwriter of contemporary Christian music, Chapman has since been recognized as one of the most prolific singers in the genre,...

    , Francesca Battistelli
    Francesca Battistelli
    Francesca Battistelli is an American Christian musician from New York City, New York. She was originally an independent artist and had released an independent album, Just a Breath, in 2004. Her first studio album on Fervent Records, My Paper Heart, was released on July 22, 2008...

    , Chris Tomlin
    Chris Tomlin
    Christopher Dwayne "Chris" Tomlin is an American Christian Contemporary Music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States. He is a former staff member at Austin Stone Community Church and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Tomlin also leads worship at many...

    , Bart Millard, Michael Tait
    Michael Tait
    Michael DeWayne Tait is a Contemporary Christian Music artist. Michael Tait met Toby McKeehan and Kevin Max while attending Liberty University in the late 1980s, and formed four-time grammy winning band DC Talk, with whom he released 5 acclaimed studio albums...

    , Blanca Callahan, Lecrae
    Lecrae
    Lecrae Moore is an American Christian Hip Hop artist signed to Reach Records, the record label that he co-founded. Thus far Lecrae has released five solo studio albums, and his latest Rehab: The Overdose was released on January 11, 2011...

    , Dan Haseltine
    Dan Haseltine
    Daniel Paul "Dan" Haseltine is an American singer best known as lead vocalist for Christian alternative folk rock group Jars of Clay. Haseltine has performed vocals, piano, accordion, percussion and most recently, melodica, while with Jars of Clay...

    , Matt Hammitt, Mac Powell
    Mac Powell
    Johnny Mac Powell , originally from Clanton, Alabama, is an American singer-songwriter and producer who formed the Christian rock band Third Day with guitarist Mark Lee...

    , Mark Hall
    Mark Hall
    Mark Hall may refer to:Persons*Mark Hall , Casting Crowns member*Mark Hall , producer of animated features*Mark Hall , NFL player*Mark David Hall, American Scholar*Mark Hall , Performed SongsBuilding...

    , Megan Garrett, Peter Furler
    Peter Furler
    Peter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and record executive but is best known as the former lead singer for the Christian rock band Newsboys.-Biography:...

    , Todd Smith (Selah)
    Todd Smith (Selah)
    Todd Smith is a singer and founding member of the contemporary Christian music band Selah. Smith remains an original member since its founding in 1998....

    , Michael W. Smith
    Michael W. Smith
    Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...

    , Darlene Zschech
    Darlene Zschech
    Darlene Joyce Zschech is an Australian Pentecostal worship leader and singer-songwriter who primarily writes praise and worship songs. She is the former worship pastor of Hillsong Church and is currently a member of Compassionart, a charity founded by Martin Smith.-Biography:As a young adult...

    , Brandon Heath
    Brandon Heath
    Brandon Heath is a contemporary Christian musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released three studio albums: Don't Get Comfortable , What If We and "Leaving Eden" . He is best known for the No. 1 "I'm Not Who I Was" and "Give Me Your Eyes". He was nominated four times at the Dove Awards of...

    , Amy Grant
    Amy Grant
    Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...

    , Jeremy Camp
    Jeremy Camp
    Jeremy Thomas Camp is a contemporary Christian musician from Lafayette, Indiana. Camp has released seven albums, four of them RIAA-certified as Gold and two are live albums, and 17 number-one hit songs...

    , and Mandisa
    Mandisa
    Mandisa Hundley is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.-Early life:...

    )

Awards

Nordeman has been nominated for two Dove Awards for Female Vocalist of the Year in the years 2006 and 2007.

Personal life

Nichole is married to Errol Ingram. The couple have two children, Charlie Thomas Ingram, born in July 2003, and Paige Bennett Ingram, born in November, 2008.

External links

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