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Nov 2022
22m 30s

S3B1: Dreams of a Christian Music Supers...

Tara Jean Stevens
About this episode

You might not know this, but Sharon Kay Edwards, from season 3, once had dreams of becoming a Christian music recording artist. What happened to those dreams? What was the Christian music scene like in the ’80s and ’90s? And which Christian artists crossed over into mainstream superstardom?

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