Chandler Moore & Naomi Raine Announce Exit From Maverick City Music: ‘God’s Not Done Yet’

Two of Grammy-winning worship corporate Maverick City Music‘s members, Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine, person announced their departures from the group.

On Monday (Oct. 6), some artists released statements connected societal media, revealing their decisions to exit the group. Each creator besides emphasized that they volition proceed to marque euphony extracurricular of Maverick City Music.

“These past 2 years I’ve been locked successful connected what truly matters…in my beingness and my career,” Moore wrote connected societal media. “It’s been scary astatine times, but it’s besides been afloat of caller imaginativeness and existent excitement astir the future. With that, I’ve made the bittersweet determination to extremity my narration with Maverick City Music. When we started Mav, I was grateful to person assemblage and belonging portion fulfilling my imagination of making euphony that would assistance radical acquisition God. And we did that…in ways I couldn’t person imagined.”

Moore besides thanked respective radical who person been indispensable to the group’s mission. “This modulation isn’t easy. Maverick is thing I poured my bosom into, truthful it’s astir similar saying goodbye to your ain kid.” He aboriginal added, “My imagination hasn’t changed. I’m stepping into this adjacent signifier acceptable to stock my communicative and marque euphony that helps radical consciousness a small much human, a small much understood, and a small little alone.”

Raine wrote connected societal media, “After a batch of supplication and consideration, I’ve decided that present is the champion clip to stock that I americium nary longer a portion of Maverick City Music. Being a portion of Mav genuinely changed my life! What started arsenic a radical of folks singing successful a shed has turned into thing I could’ve ne'er adjacent imagined!…And present I judge God has fixed maine the greenish airy to measurement into what He’s calling maine to bash individually. Still writing. Still singing. Still worshipping and starring others successful worship – conscionable connected my own…this isn’t truly an ending, but a caller beginning. A caller chapter. I’m excited astir the music, the ministry, and the intent ahead. God’s not done yet.”

Maverick City Music was founded successful 2018, and has won 5 Grammy Awards. The radical is known for Billboard Christian and/or Gospel chart-topping hits including “Promises” and “Jireh.” The group’s albums Old Church Basement (with Elevation Worship) and The Maverick Way Complete: Complete Vol. 2 some reached the apical spot connected Billboard‘s Top Christian Albums and Top Gospel Albums charts.

Moore besides released the solo task Feelings successful 2020, and astir precocious the task Chandler Moore: Live successful Los Angeles past year. Raine has released projects including two-part task Back to Eden, the 2022 medium The Journey and the 2...