Bethany Dillon
Bethany Dillon was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States on September 22nd, 1988 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 35, Bethany Dillon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Dillon's musical career began at age 13, ca. 2001, with the recording an independent album, Vulnerable, that ended up in the hands of EMI executive Brad O'Donnell. Reporting from the time says that audiences connected with her first record almost immediately, and result being several hit singles, and multiple Dove nomination. As well, the album received critical acclaim, and "an exponentially increasing grassroots fan base that propelled her career forward in great leaps". Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004, was the highest selling female solo debut album for the year, and attracted GMA nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. The radio single All I Need reached the number one position on the U.S. charts.
She released her second album, Imagination, in August 2005. The CD prompted CCM Magazine to label her as "the future of Christian music".
Dillon appears on the Music Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soundtrack of 2005, singing "Hero". One track from Imagination, entitled "Dreamer", is featured in the end credits for the 2005 film of the same name, starring Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning). A music video was created for this song, using clips from the film.
GMA's 2005 Producer of the Year, Ed Cash, teamed up with Dillon to co-produce an eleven-track album, all of which were written or co-written by Dillon; the result was her 2007 album, Waking Up released on April 3. As described by Dillon,
Joining Ed Cash in the co-production of Waking Up were Will Hunt and John Alagia (an associate of John Mayer and Dave Matthews Band). As CBN.com explains,
Dillon's "When You Love Someone" appears as a track on the film soundtrack album, Music from and Inspired by Bridge to Terabithia. In late 2007, Dillon and Sanctus Real opened with Steven Curtis Chapman on his Live in the Moment Tour.
On March 29, 2008, Dillon wed Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane in Xenia, Ohio. In 2016, Dillon and Barnard released the song "Covenant", alongside a fundraising campaign to support a new, independent studio effort and recording to appear in 2017 under her new stage name, Bethany Barnard. On February 10, 2017, she independently released A Better Word.