Matthew West

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Matthew Joseph West (born April 25, 1977) is an American contemporary Christian musician, singer-songwriter, and actor.

He has released five studio albums and is known for his songs, "More", "You Are Everything", and "The Motions".

He was nominated for five Dove Awards in 2005, two of which were for his major label debut album, Happy.

West won the 2013 American Music Award for Best Contemporary Inspirational Artist.Starting as an independent musician in the late 1990s, he released three independent albums before signing with Universal South Records.

With the release of his Dove Award-winning debut album, Happy, released in 2003, his first radio single, "More", stayed at No. 1 on Christian Adult Contemporary charts for nine weeks and received two Dove Award nominations.

His second album, History, was followed by a 2006 re-release of the originally independent album, Sellout.

In 2007, he faced vocal issues that threatened his career with two months of prescribed vocal rest.

His third studio album, Something to Say, also enjoyed chart success with No. 1 hits, "You Are Everything" and "The Motions". In addition to his main solo career, West has worked as a songwriter for many Christian musicians and groups such as Point of Grace, Mandisa, Natalie Grant, and Casting Crowns, as well as mainstream country acts, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Vince Gill.

In 2013, his second single, "Hello, My Name Is", from the album, Into the Light, was released and reached at No. 1 for a career-best 17 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Christian Songs chart.

Early life

Matthew West was born on April 25, 1977, in Downers Grove, Illinois. As a child he was a fan of his hometown baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, and wanted to eventually have a career in baseball. He played baseball throughout high school at Downers Grove North High School, becoming team captain as a senior. He was hoping for a college baseball scholarship but instead ended up receiving a four-year music scholarship at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois where he was a part of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter. He graduated from Millikin in 1999.

Personal life

Matthew West currently lives in Nashville with his wife Emily. They married on May 10, 2003, after proposing to her in September 2002. They have two daughters, Luella Jane ("Lulu") and Delaney Ruth. The Wests own a dog named Nick.

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Musical career

When he was at home during college breaks, West wrote the majority of his first songs in the sanctuary of his father's church. West was yelling profusely at the Assembly Hall in Champaign-Urbana, causing his neighbors to ask him what was wrong, according to a statement by West at the 2013 Winter Jam (March 23, 2013). He said he was being led by Jesus to pursue a career in singing and songwriting. From 1997 to 2002, he was a singer and singer, with three albums available: September Sun (1997), Every Step of the Way (1998), and Sellout (2002). He went on a three-city tour in October 1997 to promote the publication of September Sun.

Someone from Millikin University in 1999 recommended that he attend the GMA Music in the Rockies festival for young musicians. Despite being initially uninterested, West became involved in finding that other people had signed him up and paid his admission fee. He met a Word Publishing representative at the event who expressed an interest in him and stayed in touch until he graduated. West reached the finals of a songwriting competition in July 1999, five weeks after graduating. Billy Ray Cyrus and Rachael Lampa's songs, he began touring the United States as an independent artist in 2000 and 2001.

West sustained a left arm injury in July 26, 2002, just a week or two before he signed a record deal with Universal South Records, affecting his musical career and guitar playing. "I locked myself out of my house," he says. But I'd already done it before, and I had a way of breaking into a window. However, this time, I had a tough time opening the window. My hand broke through the glass as I started pushing up on the window really hard, and I pushed up on the window. Blood was spouting out of my left arm everywhere, and I ran down my street to ask for assistance. After so much blood, I went into shock and blacked out in the middle of the street, and then blacked out. The next thing I can recall is some building workers yelling over me in Spanish and then being taken to the hospital." West was told that the chances of regaining full use of his left arm were slim, a major artery having been close to being severed. He recovered after the crash but was able to play guitar and record for his first studio album.

West's first non-independence studio album, Happy, was released on September 26, 2003, after signing with Universal South Records on August 23, 2002. Kenny Greenberg and Jason Houser co-wrote the album's "More" with West. The album was his first and most commercial radio single to date, with the track remained at No. 1. For a record-breaking nine weeks, R&R's Christian Adult Contemporary chart No. 1 dominated the R&R's Christian Adult Contemporary chart. It was the most watched Christian AC song of the year by ASCAP and went on to be named the Christian Song of the Year. "The End" and "You Know Where to Find Me" were two additional songs that were not released as singles off the album. West began in late September 2004 and joined Avalon and Mark Schultz on a 40-city fall tour that came to an end in November. He was nominated for five Dove Awards, including "New Artist of the Year" and "Song of the Year" in 2005. For his debut album Happy, he received the "Recorded Music Packaging of the Year" Dove Award.

He was on the WinterJam 2005 tour, hosted by NewSong, Building 429, Tait, and Rachael Lampa in early 2005.

Matthew West began recording for his second studio album in early 2005, with Kenny Greenberg and Jason Houser as producers. On Universal South Records, history, co-produced by West, was released on June 21, 2005. "Next Thing You Know" was the album's first single off the album, a day before the album was announced. The title track "History" was inspired by a R&R music news headline "Matthew West Makes History," in reference to his first album, Happy. "It's not every day you read a headline with your name in it that calls you a historian," he said. He kicked off the 30-city History 101 tour, his first headlining tour, starring guest musicians Shawn McDonald and Paul Wright, beginning on September 14, 2005. He then joined tobyMac's Winter Wonder Slam tour, which began on December 1, 2005, alongside John Reuben, BarlowGirl, GRITS, and DJ Maj. Two other songs were also released off History as singles: "Only Grace" and "History."

His independent album Sellout was re-released on Universal South Records in 2006.

In April 2007, West said he began to have "some vocal exhaustion." "I had lost some of my vocal range," he said, despite being on higher notes and lower notes. Even now, I'm having a rough time speaking." West's doctors at the Nashville Vanderbilt Voice Center discovered "hemorrhaging caused by some polyps." Since a few weeks had passed, he was advised by his doctors that vocal surgery was the only alternative. The surgery took place on May 17, 2007, a period that he described as "career threatening." He was then given a two-month suspension for vocal rest.

Nothing to Say, directed and produced by Benjamin Eisner in early 2008, brought to a halt in Matthew West's time of silence and vocal recovery in 2007. The documentary was released in February 2008 exclusively in Family Christian Stores as a CD/DVD combo pack with West's album Something to Say.

In late 2007, his new song, "You Are Everything," was released. The album was released as a free download from West's website. Mandisa's Christmas Joy EP also featured a duet ("Christmas Makes Me Cry") with American Idol finalist Mandisa, which was also released as a Christmas radio single in November 2007.

Something to Say by Matthew West was released on January 15, 2008. It came in at No. 1 in the United States. 8 on Billboard's Top Christian albums chart, with a peak at No. 8. Billboard 200 chart No. 159, marking his first Billboard 200 album. Brown Bannister, Ed Cash, and Christopher Stevens produced it. West said in an interview that all of the album's songs had already been written and that the song "Something to Say" had already been planned "months before I discovered that I had nothing to say." "You Are Everything" was the album's first radio single. The song debuted at No. 1 in March 2008 and was ranked No. 1 in the United States. 1 on the R&R's Christian AC chart. In June 2008, "Something to Say" the album's title track was also released to radio, receiving airplay.

Matthew West was invited on tobyMac's 26-city "Boomin' Beyond Measure" tour, alongside Jeremy Camp. The tour ran from February 6 to March 21, 2008.

On March 1–9, 2008, he appeared on the Billy Graham television special America's Dream: Chasing Happiness, which aired in the United States. For "Nothing Else," a song from History, the appearance included a world premiere of his music video. The 2008 Gospel Dream, a televised Christian music talent competition, was held in West GMA on June 29, a televised Christian music talent competition. "The Motions" was released as his next album and debuted at No. 1 on the charts, placing at No. In April 2009, R&R's Christian AC chart was number one on the R&R's Christian AC chart.

Jo Dee Messina's album was released in 2009, and American Idol finalist Danny Gokey had a song on his album, with another under discussion by American Idol finalist Danny Gokey. "The Motions" was nominated for Best Gospel Song in December 2009, West's first Grammy nomination.

On August 23, 2010, Matthew West's first single "My Own Little World," was released. The Story of Your Life, a collection of personal accounts, was released on October 5, 2010. It is a reaction to thousands of life tales shared with him by West, according to him. "I got 1,000 stories on the first day." All of a sudden, I was like, 'Holy cow, something magical is about to take place.' I rented a cabin in Tennessee, about 25 minutes from my house, and it seemed as if it was out in the middle of nowhere. In an interview with CBN.com, the singer/songwriter wrote "I spent two months in the cabin reading 10,000 stories."

In addition, West appeared in The Heart of Christmas. Vince Gill, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, released "Leaving Heaven" as a Christmas song in 2011.

In September 2012, Into the Light was first published. The Into the Light Tour at West took place in September, October, and November 2013. On April 28, 2015, he launched Live Forever, his sixth studio album. All In is his seventh studio album, which would be immediately followed by his All In tour on September 22, 2017. The Royal Academy of British Architects named his single "The Motions" platinum.

Under a new agreement with Sony's Provident Music Group, West introduced Story House Music, his own imprint, on February 20, 2020. In April 2021, a deluxe version was released.

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