WINNER ANNOUNCED FOR INO/ARDENT RECORDS & GOSPEL MUSIC CHANNEL
SKILLET
VIDEO CONTEST
NASHVILLE, TN…February 9,
2007…INO/Ardent Records along with Gospel Music Channel are eager
to announce the winner for the Skillet “Rebirthing” Video Contest,
which included amateur video submissions of Skillet songs from their
dedicated fanbase—the Panheads. Hailing from Lapeer, Michigan,
20-year-old youth pastor Andrew Kluck has been awarded the grand prize
winner for the video contest featuring “The Thirst is Taking Over”
from the album Alien Youth.
“I learned about the contest
only five days before the deadline, so my band and I immediately went
to work on our video,” shares winner Andrew Kluck. “I spent
more than 50 hours over the course of three days putting the video together
to make it for the deadline. I submitted the video for fun, and
it has been awesome to watch God open these doors of opportunity for
our band.”
Andrew will receive a trip
to Memphis as well as the opportunity to record at the world famous
Ardent Studios, which is celebrating their 40th anniversary.
Fulfilling a Skillet fan’s desire, Andrew will also receive a personal
call from John and Korey Cooper, and a full library of autographed Skillet
CDs. The runner-up, Adam Philpott of Indiana, will receive an
autographed guitar as well as a complete autographed Skillet collection.
“We are looking forward to
a great time with Andrew and his group here in Memphis,” states John
Fry, President of Ardent Records. “We'll give him the personally
guided tours of Graceland, Sun Studios, Stax Museum of American Soul
Music, Smithsonian Rock and Soul Museum, Beale Street, Gibson Guitars,
and all the other cool music stuff Memphis has to offer. “
“Seeing the outpouring response
of Panheads submitting their videos was so rad,” states Skillet’s
John Cooper. “We were honored to have this contest with Gospel Music
Channel and to see the songs that our fans covered.”
The Skillet “Rebirthing”
promotional contest ran on GospelMusicChannel.com from November through
December promoting the new critically acclaimed studio release, Comatose,
from Skillet. Panheads were asked to submit their music video
of themselves covering their favorite Skillet song online. The
Gospel Music Channel staff judged the videos.
“Providing the loyal Skillet
fans with this rare opportunity to simultaneously showcase their creativity
and devotion to the group on a popular destination like GospelMusicChannel.com
generated an overwhelming, and impressive response,” commented Justin
Williams, Senior Director for Internet and New Media, Gospel Music Channel.
“These fan videos are very well done, entertaining and worthy of repeated
viewing.”
Skillet’s explosive, critically-acclaimed
and best-selling new Lava/Atlantic Records release, COMATOSE, follows
the band’s 2004 Lava/Atlantic top-selling debut, Collide, which
launched the group into the public eye with the single “Savior”
and garnered the quartet a prestigious Grammy Award nomination. COMATOSE's
first Christian Rock and radio single, "Rebirthing" was a
smash hit, spending eight consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Rock, and currently
at No. 4 and still climbing at CHR. Their first single at Mainstream
Active Rock radio, "Whispers In the Dark," was the second
most added single two weeks in a row, and their newest single, "The
Older I Get," was just released to the Mainstream, Active and Alternative
Rock formats this week and is already being spun on top market stations
in Nashville, Houston, Memphis, Sarasota, Richmond, and Philadelphia.
This week alone they received 29 adds (including early adds) on the
formats. Skillet closed out 2006 as one of the most lauded groups in
the industry with COMATOSE garnering "best of" reader's poll
results with ChristianityToday/ChristianMusi
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