“Musically, I sing everything from R&B to pop to hip-hop to Latin. “It’s definitely challenging,” said Tait.
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The three of them, all prominent in the contemporary Christian music scene, join a predominantly “CCM” group of artists in the 31-song production featured in a two-CD set and the live tour. Tait is partnered in the project with Mark Stuart, lead singer of Audio Adrenaline, who plays Petrov, and Rebecca St. “To have a Jesus that was black is such a provocative step and I thought, what a great way to stir up and to invoke interest in an age-old story, the history, the Bible, the gospel,” he said. He grew up with a picture of a blond Jesus at the Baptist church his father pastored in inner-city Washington. 4, jumped at the opportunity to play the modern Jesus role. Michael Tait, a member of dc Talk who releases his second solo album as “Tait” on Nov. In addition, DeGarmo said, he sees a “fairly good modern parallel” between Jews escaping bondage and being a downtrodden people in Jesus’ day and the history of African-Americans. “He was more than likely Middle Eastern-looking.” “I think it’s been long enough that we’ve depicted Christ as a blue-eyed European, and chances are he probably wasn’t that and chances are he wasn’t African-American,” said DeGarmo.
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Jesus’ transfiguration occurs from atop the Empire State Building.Īnd, Jesus, who is called “Hero,” is black and wears dreadlocks. The postmodern version of the gospel has dramatic changes from the traditional King James translation: DeGarmo replaced Roman magistrates with “power politicians” and centurions with “dirty cops.” The multiplication of the loaves and the fishes happens in Central Park. “Really, what I want is for them to go back and get involved with the original gospel and learn what that story is,” DeGarmo said in an interview shortly before “!Hero” began its 19-city run. (UNDATED) Veteran Christian musician Eddie DeGarmo has modernized the gospel _ moving Jesus from Nazareth to New York _ in hopes of turning listeners and viewers of his rock opera “!Hero” back to the Bible.