![]() He appeared on popular TV shows like The Jack Benny Show and The Joey Bishop Show, and also made an appearance on Walt Disney’s Wonderful World Of Colour. With record companies taking notice of Green’s musical ability, his father started to manage him and after knocking back offers from Capitol Records and other labels, Green eventually signed a five-year recording contract with Decca Records. Not surprisingly, he was labelled by Teen Scene magazine as “the youngest new face on the Hollywood scene”. During this time, Green also started writing music, and with the help of his grandfather, released his first record at the age of 12. ![]() Not long after, he shot his first television commercial and performed in his first major theatre production where he received strong reviews from LA Times. Aware of his obvious musical talent, Green’s parents sent him for both music and acting lessons. At 5 he was playing the ukulele and by 7, his parents had bought him his first piano. ![]() Trained by his mother to sing at a very young age, Green could hum the melody to “Rock-A-Bye-Baby” by the time he was 9 months old. The seeds of Keith Green’s eventful musical and spiritual journey were sown long before he emerged as one of the biggest contemporary Christian recording artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s.īorn in 1953 into a musical family where his grandfather worked as a composer for Warner Brothers and his mother had trained as a singer at Carnegie Hall, Green later moved with his family from New York to San Fernando Valley in California where he was raised under the Christian Science religion. “As for me, I repent of ever having made a record or ever having sung a song unless it’s provoked people to follow Jesus, to lay down their whole life before Him, to give Him everything.” Keith Green, speaking at the 1978 Jesus Northwest Festival in Washington, USA. Once a washed up teen pop star and a drug-addled hippie, Keith Green found God who led him to record one of the most dynamic and enduring debut albums in the history of CCM.
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