Natalie Grant Signs With Capitol CMG, Announces ‘Christmas’ Album

Five-time GMA Dove Awards pistillate vocalist of the twelvemonth victor Natalie Grant, known for hits including “King of the World” and “In Better Hands,” is celebrating a caller vocation section with a caller statement home.

Grant has joined Capitol Christian Music Group (Capitol CMG), aft antecedently being with Curb/Word Entertainment for much than 2 decades.

Capitol CMG is besides location to artists including Chris Tomlin, Josiah Queen, Amy Grant, Crowder, TobyMac, Anne Wilson and more.

Grant’s signing with Capitol CMG comes arsenic the institution was precocious portion of a greater reorganizing, with Capitol Music Group bringing Capitol CMG and Capitol Records Nashville nether the Capitol Music Group Nashville umbrella. Capitol CMG, which includes Motown Gospel and Tamla and organisation operations, continues to beryllium led by CCMG president Brad O’Donnell. Music enforcement Candice Watkins joined arsenic president of Capitol Records Nashville and enforcement vp of Capitol CMG.

“I emotion Brad and Candice and the full squad and I’m excited to enactment with them,” Grant tells Billboard. “I deliberation they are genuinely the champion successful the business. The satellite looks a batch antithetic than it did erstwhile I signed my archetypal deal. I went, ‘What makes the astir consciousness for maine now?’ At this signifier successful my life, 1 of the important things to maine [in looking astatine a label] was, ‘Who’s the champion astatine doing marketing, who does that truthful well?’ My manager brought maine 3 labels, small, mean and large, and erstwhile I looked astatine who was champion astatine servicing that, it was Capitol. Especially, looking astatine immoderate of the things I privation to bash with this caller chapter, musically, it conscionable made the astir sense.”

The nine-time Grammy nominee celebrates this caller vocation section with the upcoming merchandise of her archetypal vacation medium successful 2 decades, erstwhile Christmas arrives Oct. 3 (pre-order).

“We are beyond thrilled to invited Natalie to the Capitol Christian Music Group family,” O’Donnell told Billboard via a statement. “We’ve been fans for a agelong clip and it’s an grant to spouse with her connected this project—especially arsenic she marks 20 years since her archetypal vacation release. ‘Christmas’ is simply a classical and timeless postulation of vacation songs that volition resonate with fans of each genres and generations.”

Grant, whose erstwhile Christmas medium Believe released successful 2005, recorded her caller task with her hubby and longtime collaborator, composer/producer Bernie Herms. Christmas includes a premix of vacation favorites and caller music. Among the tracks are the Gospel music-flavored rendition of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” arsenic good arsenic a plaything music-oriented mentation “Jingle Bells,” portion incorporating 2 archetypal songs, “Christmas Looks Good connected You,” and six-minute ballad, “God’s Gift.”

“It is simply a precise classical Christmas record,” Grant says, adding, “I knew that archetypal thing, I wanted to marque a Christmas album. I was truthful excited that Capitol was each successful from the get-go. ‘God’s Gift’ has specified a classical feeling. You get to that span and it has a ‘Handel’s Messiah’ vibe to it, a ineffable feeling to it. We wrote it with Mitch Wong, who I deliberation is 1 of the large worship songwriters close now. I said to Bernie, ‘I wnat to spell precocious ’90s, aboriginal 2000’s, monolithic CCM popular ballad. What would [Contemporary Christian Music creator Michael W. Smith] person done connected his Christmas grounds successful 1998?’ I consciousness similar helium captured it.”

Grant says the remainder of the task besides has a precise authentic, intimate feel, saying, “It’s existent music. We sat with the Nashville strings and did existent strings. Bernie went to L.A. and it was existent horns and each the singers sang astir 1 microphone, like, ‘What would Ella Fitzgerald done erstwhile she recorded her Christmas record?’ We tried to thin into that and you tin consciousness that.”

In December, Grant volition squad with Danny Gokey to motorboat the 10th yearly Celebrate Christmas Tour, starting Dec. 4. The circuit volition sojourn astir a twelve cities successful states including Florida, Tennessee and Virginia.

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