Joe Pace

Colorado Mass Choir, beneath the path of acclaimed songwriter/maker Joe Speed, has evolved into among gospel music’s most widely used choirs. The choir, created in 1995 from a community-wide choral workshop that occurred in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is usually made up of over 60 users from 35 different churches through the entire condition. The choir became an instantaneous success making use of their 1995 debut recording for Verity Information, View God Move. The recording yielded such well-known songs because the name monitor “View God Move,” “Still Possess Joy,” as well as the smash strike “Stir In the Present.” The choir was richly compensated for the achievement of this recording, finding a Stellar Award for New Designer of the entire year in 1997, in addition to four GMWA Gospel Music Superiority Award Nominations in 1997 within the categories of Recording of the entire year, New Designer of the entire year (Modern), New Designer of the entire year (Traditional), and Tune of the entire year for “Mix Up the Present.” The accolades continuing to move in using the choir’s sophomore task, the 1998 discharge titled SO EXCELLENT. The task featured several particular guests, including Kim Rutherford, who shows up on the monitor “On the Combination”; the husband-wife duo Angelo & Veronica, who are highlighted on “Yes He Adores Me” with Veronica heading solo for the monitor “Bless His Holy Name”; and Min. Kenneth Wells, who was simply the vocal catalyst behind the strike “Stir In the Present,” acquiring the reins for the monitor “He Manages His Very own.” The record ended up getting four Stellar Award nominations in 1999 for Choir of the entire year, Traditional Choir of the entire year, Traditional Record of the entire year, and Manufacturer of the entire year, (Joe Speed), alongside two Dove Award nominations for Traditional Record of the entire year and Traditional Tune of the entire year for the entitled monitor, “SO EXCELLENT.” Joe Speed as well as the Colorado Mass Choir would ultimately discharge two even more albums for the Verity label, the 1999 discharge God’s FIRST GOT IT, which highlighted a visitor vocal appearance by award-winning musician/songwriter/manufacturer Fred Hammond, along with a 2001 Best-Of compilation. Also in 2001, the choir inked a documenting deal with Portable, Alabama-based compliment & worship label Integrity Music and released their debut task, Glad ABOUT ANY OF IT. Pace would stick to with Integrity for another five years, issuing a string of acclaimed albums before shifting to Columbia for 2006’s two-disc Mighty GOOD WAY, a assortment of brand-new arrangements of a few of Pace’s perhaps most obviously early offerings. Documented live on the Renaissance Cathedral of God In Christ in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Worship for the Kingdom found its way to 2007, accompanied by the ambitious audio-visual established Joe Speed Presents: Compliment for the Sanctuary this year 2010, and by Joe Speed Presents: H.B. Charles Jr. & Shiloh Chapel in 2016.