INSPIRESONG will have the following expert clinicians:
Cindy Wilt Colville is a twenty-three year veteran of the Christian music business. She began her career in production management working on gold and platinum projects including Steven Curtis Chapman’s first four records, spent 16 years in publishing, most recently as Vice President with Word Music Publishing signing and developing some of the top writers today including Matthew West, Jason Ingram, Cindy Morgan, Clint Lagerberg, Sam Mizell and many others. She spent two years managing the artist career of Matthew West.
In 2009 she started a Songwriter Resource business and provides a variety of services including writer development, song critique, song plugging and creative project management. Visit Cindy’s Website for more information.
Robert Sterling, songwriter and author of “The Craft of Christian Songwriting.” Robert Sterling is a Dove Award winning songwriter, arranger, and record producer. His songs have climbed to the top of Christian pop, Southern Gospel, and inspirational radio charts, recorded by artists such as Point of Grace, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers, Gold City, and Sandi Patty. Among Robert’s record producing credits are the certified gold albums, “Point of Grace,” “The Whole Truth,” and “24” by Point of Grace, and the Grammy-nominated recording, “Love Will,” by the Talleys. His extensive body of choral compositions and arrangements spans thirty years and can be found in the catalogs of Word Music, Alfred Music, Shawnee Press, and LifeWay Music . For More Info, visit, www.robertsterlingmusic.com
Sam Mizell and Becca Mizell, songwriters. Sam and Becca are married and are new parents to Winter, born in July 2009. Songs they have written together have been recorded by Francesca Battistelli, Mandisa, 33 Miles and PureNRG. Sam is a 2010 Grammy nominee with “The Motions” cowritten and recorded by Sparrow artist Matthew West and wrote and produced “Was I The Only One” for Jordan Sparks on her Battlefield album.
Staci Frenes
Staci Frenes is a singer/songwriter with five critically-acclaimed CDs whose music steadily finds its way into CCM as well as mainstream venues via radio, major network television (WB, CBS, ABC), and feature films. She has also collaborated with and for such CCM artists as Ginny Owens, Margaret Becker, Nichole Nordeman and Sheila Walsh. In addition to touring nationally promoting her latest CD, Meteor Shower, Staci continues to explore and find creative licensing and publishing opportunities for her music.
Staci also represents international relief and development organization World Vision, and speaks regularly on behalf of children who are orphaned and vulnerable in the AIDS pandemic. She has ranked in the organization’s Top 20 Artist Associates for the past seven years, continuing to gain child sponsorships and visit places in some of the world’s poorest regions as part of her ongoing work with World Vision.
Staci makes her home in Northern California with her husband, Abe, their two kids and yellow lab, Jazz, and leads worship part-time at her home church, Cornerstone Fellowship, in Livermore, California.
