CCM singer/songwriter Michelle Tumes was created in Adelaide, Australia, and began monitoring piano at age four. During her teenagers, she signed up for a two-year traditional piano program, an event which remaining her therefore disillusioned about carrying out that she rather turned to learning dentistry. At that time, her small sister offered Tumes $40 she experienced preserved from her paper path to be able to convince her old sibling to slice a demonstration; she decided, sending the tape unsolicited to a number of publishing companies. Gives quickly poured in, and after putting your signature on a songwriting cope with an Australian publisher she relocated towards the U.S., quickly authoring Jaci Velasquez’s CCM chart-topper “If This Globe.” Tumes’ efforts to support a solo profession initially fulfilled with disappointment, but she ultimately signed using the Sparrow, issuing her debut LP Pay attention in 1998 and generating a major strike with the solitary “Please KEEP COMING BACK.” Middle of My Universe adopted in early 2000.