musician; evangelist
Education: Alameda College, AA, music, 1982; Friends International Christian University, BA, biblical studies, 1983; Faith Bible College, MDiv, 1985; Friends International Christian University, PhD, 1997.
Religion: Christian.
Military/Wartime Service: United States Air Force, 1965-68.
Ron Kenoly was born on December 6, 1944, in Coffeyville, Kansas, one of six sons. He has said that he hardly knew his father, who was in the military, but his mother, Edith, raised the children almost single-handed. Kenoly graduated from high school in Coffeyville and immediately moved to Hollywood. He joined the United States Air Force in 1965 and served for three years. While in the Air Force he married his wife Tavita; they have three sons. He attended Alameda College, graduating with an associates degree in 1982, and with a bachelors degree in Biblical Studies from Friends International Christian University (1983). Kenoly went on to graduate study at Faith Bible College (M.Div., 1985) and graduated with a Ph.D. in Ministry of Sacred Music from Friends International Christian University in 1997.
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Kenoly
began his musical education in church, singing in a children's choir.
He was serious about music from an early age and decided to become a
musician. While serving in the Air Force Kenoly joined a band called the
Mellow Fellows
and toured military bases performing Top 40 hits. Soon after leaving
the military Kenoly became a popular nightclub entertainer in Los
Angeles and had some success as an R&B performer, recording for
major record labels such as MCA and A&M. By the mid-1970s the
demands of Kenoly's career had begun to affect his family and personal
life. Kenoly attributes the recommitment of his life to Jesus Christ in
1975 to the personal crisis he suffered in the early 1970s.
Kenoly began trying to break into the gospel music scene in the late 1970s but had very little success until he produced his own album You Ought to Listen to This in 1983. He began his full-time ministry in 1985 when he became Minister of Music at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, California. Kenoly released his first gospel album for Integrity Music, Jesus Is Alive in 1991. His first eight live albums with Integrity sold over four million copies. In 2003 Kenoly re-signed with Integrity for an undisclosed seven figure sum, a record for the Christian music industry.
Recorded music has always been an important part of Kenoly's ministry, but it is for his meetings that he has been most celebrated. In the United States he regularly attracts congregations of 15,000 people, while in Bangalore, India, he performed for over 200,000 worshippers at a single meeting. For the performance recorded on his Majesty album (1998), Kenoly assembled a choir of 300 voices and a full orchestra to worship with a congregation of 8,000.
In 1999 Kenoly moved from California to Orlando, Florida, where he set up the Academy of Praise, a mentoring program for praise and worship leaders. With bases in England and Brazil, Kenoly established the Academy to have global influence. In music too Kenoly moved in new directions, releasing his first studio album, Dwell in the House in 2001 and setting up his own recording company to produce The Perfect Gift (2001) and Solo Para Ti (2002). Through these many projects Kenoly has become one of the most influential gospel singers and worship leaders, adapting his music and his worship style to new congregations around the world.
Since graduating with a Ph.D. in 1997, Kenoly has been dubbed "The Professor of Praise." He has won many awards for his music and his worship meetings, including being nominated five times for the GMA Dove Award for gospel music, and winning it once, for Welcome Home (1996). Kenoly has made guest appearances on The 700 Club, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Hour of Power, Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and Benny Hinn's This Is Your Day. Two of his albums and three of his live videos have hit "gold" status for sales, a remarkable achievement for Christian music recordings.
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Ron Kenoly (born December 6, 1944 in Coffeyville, Kansas) is an American Christian worship leader, singer, and songwriter
whose expressed mission is "to create an environment for the manifest
presence of God". His musical style is one of jubilant praise and
individual excellence on musical instruments. Although Kenoly himself
only plays on one of his recordings, he leads comfortably with his voice
and is always backed up by musicians and a large choir.
He holds several degrees, including a music degree from Alameda College, a Master of Divinity from Faith Bible College, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Sacred music from Friends International Christian University.[1] His music career began following time spent in the United States Air Force.[1] He was originally with a group called Shades of Difference, but family issues caused him to leave the group. His critical success came in 1992 when Lift Him Up became the fastest selling worship album to that point.[1] Welcome Home was also critically acclaimed, becoming Billboard's "Top Indie Contemporary Christian music album",[1] and winning a Gospel Music Association Dove Award for "Praise and Worship Album" in 1997.[2] He was signed to Integrity Music, but is no longer recording for them.
He began working in full time ministry in 1985. He started out as a worship leader at Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, California. Not long after that, in 1987, he was ordained and installed as Music Pastor. As worship leader, his sole focus was leading worship service. When he became Music Pastor, he became the shepherd over the entire music department at Jubilee Christian Center. In 1993, after the success of 2 Integrity recordings, he started receiving invitations from all over the world. Churches not only wanted him to come lead praise and worship, but also to help them develop their music departments. So shortly afterwards, he was named Ambassador of Music at Jubilee Christian Center. He was sent out from the church as an ambassador to the world to help churches develop and find the balance between worship and the Word. In 1996, he received his Doctorate in Ministry of Sacred Music. In 1999, he felt the call to move from California to the East Coast. So, he relocated the ministry to Central Florida where he continues to travel, speak, sing and teach and record. He sings over all the world.
Personal Information
Born on December 6, 1944, in Coffeyville, KS; married Tavita; children: Tony, Samuel, Ron JrEducation: Alameda College, AA, music, 1982; Friends International Christian University, BA, biblical studies, 1983; Faith Bible College, MDiv, 1985; Friends International Christian University, PhD, 1997.
Religion: Christian.
Military/Wartime Service: United States Air Force, 1965-68.
Career
R&B artist, recording with MCA and
A&M, 1968-78; student and teacher, 1978-85; Jubilee Christian Center
Minsiter of Music, 1985-99; Faith World Minister of Music, 1999-; Ron
Kenoly Ministries, and the Academy of Praise, founder.
Life's Work
Former soul singer Ron Kenoly is a charismatic worship leader whose music helped revitalize
the American evangelical movement and gospel music in the 1990s. Often
playing to gatherings of over 10,000 people at his "meetings," Ron
Kenoly is the most popular praise and worship leader of the early twenty
first century. Kenoly began his full-time ministry in 1985 and sold
over four million worship albums in the 1990s alone, grossing over
twenty-four million dollars. He has won many awards for his music and is
the founder of Ron Kenoly Ministries and the Academy of Praise, a
mentoring program for people involved in Christian music and in praise
and worship.Ron Kenoly was born on December 6, 1944, in Coffeyville, Kansas, one of six sons. He has said that he hardly knew his father, who was in the military, but his mother, Edith, raised the children almost single-handed. Kenoly graduated from high school in Coffeyville and immediately moved to Hollywood. He joined the United States Air Force in 1965 and served for three years. While in the Air Force he married his wife Tavita; they have three sons. He attended Alameda College, graduating with an associates degree in 1982, and with a bachelors degree in Biblical Studies from Friends International Christian University (1983). Kenoly went on to graduate study at Faith Bible College (M.Div., 1985) and graduated with a Ph.D. in Ministry of Sacred Music from Friends International Christian University in 1997.
Kenoly began trying to break into the gospel music scene in the late 1970s but had very little success until he produced his own album You Ought to Listen to This in 1983. He began his full-time ministry in 1985 when he became Minister of Music at the Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, California. Kenoly released his first gospel album for Integrity Music, Jesus Is Alive in 1991. His first eight live albums with Integrity sold over four million copies. In 2003 Kenoly re-signed with Integrity for an undisclosed seven figure sum, a record for the Christian music industry.
Recorded music has always been an important part of Kenoly's ministry, but it is for his meetings that he has been most celebrated. In the United States he regularly attracts congregations of 15,000 people, while in Bangalore, India, he performed for over 200,000 worshippers at a single meeting. For the performance recorded on his Majesty album (1998), Kenoly assembled a choir of 300 voices and a full orchestra to worship with a congregation of 8,000.
In 1999 Kenoly moved from California to Orlando, Florida, where he set up the Academy of Praise, a mentoring program for praise and worship leaders. With bases in England and Brazil, Kenoly established the Academy to have global influence. In music too Kenoly moved in new directions, releasing his first studio album, Dwell in the House in 2001 and setting up his own recording company to produce The Perfect Gift (2001) and Solo Para Ti (2002). Through these many projects Kenoly has become one of the most influential gospel singers and worship leaders, adapting his music and his worship style to new congregations around the world.
Since graduating with a Ph.D. in 1997, Kenoly has been dubbed "The Professor of Praise." He has won many awards for his music and his worship meetings, including being nominated five times for the GMA Dove Award for gospel music, and winning it once, for Welcome Home (1996). Kenoly has made guest appearances on The 700 Club, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Hour of Power, Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and Benny Hinn's This Is Your Day. Two of his albums and three of his live videos have hit "gold" status for sales, a remarkable achievement for Christian music recordings.
Awards
Angel Award for Lift Him Up, 1993;
Dove Award, for Praise and Worship Album of the Year, 1997; Cesar
Castellanos, President of the Missionary Charismatic International
Church in Bogota, Columbia, named Kenoly Psalmist of the Century.
Works
Selected worksAlbums
- Jesus Is Alive, 1992.
- Lift Him Up, 1993.
- God Is Able, 1994.
- Sing Out with One Voice, 1995.
- Welcome Home, 1996.
- High Places: The Best of Ron Kenoly, 1997.
- Majesty, 1998.
- We Offer Praises, 1999.
- The Perfect Gift, 2001.
- Dwell in the House, 2001.
- Solo Para Ti, 2002.
- (With Dick Bernal) Lifting Him Up, Word Publishing, 1996.
- Sing Out with One Voice--Ron Kenoly Songbook, Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1995.
Further Reading
Books- Synan, Vinson, Century of the Holy Spirit 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001, Nelson Reference, 2001.
- Wuthnow, Robert, All in Sync: How Music and Art Are Revitalizing American Religion, University of California Press, 2003.
- Charisma Magazine, February 1994.
- Washington Post, March 9, 1997; November 6, 2000, p. C8; November 9, 2000, p. M10; December 13, 2001, p. T26.
- Exodus On-line, www.exodusnews.com/Business/Business021.htm (May 7, 2004).
- "Ron Kenoly," Biography Resource Center, http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC (May 12, 2004).
- Ron Kenoly Ministries, www.ronkenoly.org (May 7, 2004).
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Ron Kenoly began singing in a Baptist church in his hometown, Coffeyville, KS, and after spending time working in the Air Force and raising a family, he became a successful charting singer in the early '70s in Los Angeles, but recommitted his life to being a Christian in 1975. Kenoly then received his master's degree in music at the College of Alameda in California, and became a voice teacher. He began to lead praise & worship services at a local Pentecostal church, and caught the eye of Integrity Records, which signed Ron Kenoly to a contract. His first album, Jesus Is Alive, was followed by the fastest-selling praise & worship album ever, Lift Him Up. Both that album and the next, God Is Able, were nominated for Dove awards. Kenoly has also released Sing out with One Voice, and in 1995 passed the one-million mark in total sales. In 1996, he released Welcome Home, his major label debut; Majesty followed two years later, and in 1999 Kenoly returned with We Offer Praises. Dwell In the House appeared in spring 2001. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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| Ron Kenoly | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | December 6, 1944 |
| Origin | Coffeyville, Kansas, USA |
| Genres | CCM |
| Occupations | Worship leader, singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Labels | Independent Previously Integrity Music |
| Website | http://www.ronkenoly.com/ |
He holds several degrees, including a music degree from Alameda College, a Master of Divinity from Faith Bible College, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Sacred music from Friends International Christian University.[1] His music career began following time spent in the United States Air Force.[1] He was originally with a group called Shades of Difference, but family issues caused him to leave the group. His critical success came in 1992 when Lift Him Up became the fastest selling worship album to that point.[1] Welcome Home was also critically acclaimed, becoming Billboard's "Top Indie Contemporary Christian music album",[1] and winning a Gospel Music Association Dove Award for "Praise and Worship Album" in 1997.[2] He was signed to Integrity Music, but is no longer recording for them.
He began working in full time ministry in 1985. He started out as a worship leader at Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose, California. Not long after that, in 1987, he was ordained and installed as Music Pastor. As worship leader, his sole focus was leading worship service. When he became Music Pastor, he became the shepherd over the entire music department at Jubilee Christian Center. In 1993, after the success of 2 Integrity recordings, he started receiving invitations from all over the world. Churches not only wanted him to come lead praise and worship, but also to help them develop their music departments. So shortly afterwards, he was named Ambassador of Music at Jubilee Christian Center. He was sent out from the church as an ambassador to the world to help churches develop and find the balance between worship and the Word. In 1996, he received his Doctorate in Ministry of Sacred Music. In 1999, he felt the call to move from California to the East Coast. So, he relocated the ministry to Central Florida where he continues to travel, speak, sing and teach and record. He sings over all the world.
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Discography
- 1983: You Ought to Listen to This
- 1991: Jesus Is Alive
- 1992: Lift Him Up with Ron Kenoly
- 1994: God Is Able
- 1995: Sing Out with One Voice
- 1996: Welcome Home
- 1998: Majesty
- 1999: We Offer Praises
- 2001: Dwell in the House
Personal life
He is cousins with American actor, Don CheadleReferences
- ^ a b c d Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (First printing ed.). Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. pp. 484–485. ISBN 1-56563-679-1.
- ^ "Dove Award Recipients for 1997". Published by the Gospel Music Association. Retrieved 2007-02-05.
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