Bethany Dillon
// singer-songwriterBETHANY DILLON is a Christian singer-songwriter from Bellefontaine, Ohio. “The Beautiful Sessions [EP]” (2004), “Bethany Dillon (Self-Titled)” (2004), “Imagination” (2005), “Connect Sets [EP]” (2005), “Top Five Hits: Bethany Dillon [EP]” (2006), “Waking Up” (2007), “So Far: The Acoustic Sessions” (2008), “In Christ Alone: Modern Hymns Of Worship” (2008), and “Stop & Listen” (2009) are all available from Sparrow Records. Her self-titled debut album was the highest selling female solo debut album for 2004 and attracted Gospel Music Award nominations for both Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. Her song “Hero” features on the “Music Inspired By The Chronicles Of Narnia” (2005) available from Sparrow Records. Bethany Dillon has also toured with Steven Curtis Chapman, Sanctus Real, and is married to contemporary Christian recording artist Shane Barnard of Shane & Shane.
Website: www.bethanydillon.com
Photo: Bethany Dillon / Be Free Inc.
Interview:
Music was a huge part of my growing up. There was always something playing in the background at the house, whether it was Merle Haggard or Bonnie Raitt or Rich Mullins. And because of that, certain songs are now forever attached to important memories and defining moments of my life. I think the spiritual significance of music even in that aspect of my life and everyone’s life is immeasurable.
Good music has a way of planting seeds of truth in your mind, and you reap from it in your moments of need. Good music has a way of reminding you where you’ve been and giving you hope for tomorrow. On my hardest days, I can run from what’s really going on inside of me as much as I want, but it only takes a timely song to bring honesty to the surface. As a Christian and an artist, I’m constantly blown away by how music can create community, honesty, repentance, and hope where nothing else could breakthrough.
“I’m constantly blown away by how music can create community, honesty, repentance, and hope where nothing else could break through.”
– Bethany Dillon, singer-songwriter
