Kari Jobe Carnes

Dallas-based international worship leader and CCM songwriter Kari Jobe ministered around the world for over a decade with various groups before settling down as the worship pastor at Southlake, Texas' Gateway Church in 2006. Jobe released her debut, a set of inspirational songs co-written with <a href="spotify:artist:6pRi6EIPXz4QJEOEsBaA0m">Chris Tomlin</a>, Ed Cash, <a href="spotify:artist:1jH3GuQCPI87UrS0hcScHr">Paul Baloche</a>, Klaus Kuehn, and <a href="spotify:artist:4ZSiao6VxS7XrzDVvb89XR">Mia Fieldes</a>, on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Columbia%22">Columbia</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Integrity%22">Integrity</a> imprint in February 2009. The album was an immediate success, reaching number three on the Christian Albums chart and charting on Billboard's Top 200 as well as netting her a pair of Dove Awards. Her similarly inspirational-inclined sophomore effort, Where I Find You, arrived in 2012 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Universal%22">Universal</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sparrow+Records%22">Sparrow Records</a> imprint, this time topping the Christian chart and earning Jobe a Grammy nomination.

A concert album called Majestic arrived in 2014 and featured new material recorded live at Dallas' historic Majestic Theatre. A year later, she issued Majestic Revisited, which featured alternate studio versions of many of the songs from Majestic. In 2017 Jobe issued her third studio album, Garden, which saw her working with producer Jeremy Edwardson (<a href="spotify:artist:0Onvkz1Nbs4wHXXUwOIGk8">Jesus Culture</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:74cb3MG0x0BOnYNW1uXYnM">Hillsong United</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5D3h9ZoobhetjXw3dKhcaq">Jon Foreman</a>) and delivering a hopeful set conceived during a time of personal loss. She returned the following year with the <a href="spotify:artist:7apN8bBgl19E0Ona9pvPq0">Cody Carnes</a> duet "Cover the Earth," and in 2020 she teamed up with <a href="spotify:artist:7apN8bBgl19E0Ona9pvPq0">Carnes</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3YCKuqpv9nCsIhJ2v8SMix">Elevation Worship</a> for the single "The Blessing," which soared to the number two slot on the Billboard Christian Songs chart. The Blessing (Live) was later nominated for a Grammy Award. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi