Exceptionally popular American Christian singer, composer and guitarist, winner of many prestigious music awards. A lay Catholic. Author of 50 albums (4 million copies sold worldwide) devoted mainly to Jesus Christ and Christian spirituality. Author of 14 books. Composer of reflective, contemplative ballads. Founder of the Catholic Musicians’ Association where he offers teaching to people who wish to minister during liturgical ceremonies in churches and beyond. He gives several dozen concerts in the US every year, each of them attracting crowds. He performs mainly in churches, invited by parishes and dioceses. He believes that the task of musicians is to support and spread faith and morality. “Their music should inspire faith by its artistic value, and attract the faithful with the lyrics it conveys.” At the end of 2009, he published his most recent book The World Is My Cloister. In the book, he discloses the secret of happiness which Saint Francis explained this way: “The world is my cloister. My body is my cell and my soul is a hermit therein.” He shows one does not have to live in a cloister to experience the peace of God and become a blessing to the world.