Cindy Cruse Ratcliff

Christian praise & worship songwriter and singer Cindy Cruse Ratcliff began her musical ministering at age 6 when she took the stage with her family, the Cruse Family members, a well-known evangelistic vocal group who released some 25 albums, received two Dove Awards, and toured the world ministering in the 1970s and 1980s. Early in her performing and writing profession (she became the youngest certified ASCAP songwriter at age nine), though, Ratcliff got a slightly even more secular approach, liberating a set of melodic and spiritually centered rock and roll albums, The Advantage in 1989 and Little Town Woman in 1991 (she got previously released two recording cassettes, Cruse and Cruse 2, both in 1984). In 2000 she was employed by Joel Osteen to be worship movie director at his Lakewood Chapel in Houston, Tx, and in 2008 she was advertised to older worship innovator. By this aspect, Joel Osteen Ministries was among the country’s largest ministries, and Cruse Ratcliff was an integral number in Osteen’s market worship tours as well as the live CDs that originated from them. She released her 1st solo recording in over a decade this year 2010, 12, which featured twelve new original tracks. Made by David Hanley, 2014’s Heaven Raining Down was documented at Osteen’s Lakewood Chapel in Houston and features Cruse Ratcliff-penned unique compliment & worship materials predicated on Osteen’s sermons and message.