Bands Include:
The Kry - Union Of Saints - I53 - Brand Of Hero - Rebecca Hawkins - 诗篇赞美乐队 (Psalms Praise Band)
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Bands Include: The Kry - Union Of Saints - I53 - Brand Of Hero - Rebecca Hawkins - 诗篇赞美乐队 (Psalms Praise Band) |
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THE KRY The Kry is: Jean-Luc Lajoie – Lead vocal and acoustic guitars.
Yves Lajoie – drums and backing vocals- Yves and Jean-Luc were born in Quebec
City, Canada. They started playing music at a young age. Yves got his first drum
kit and jean-Luc his first guitar at around age 5. They grew up playing music in
their parent’s basement and, invested quite a bit of their teenage years
playing, writing and dreaming about the day when they could do this for a
living! The Lajoie brothers did their first official show when Yves was 15 and
Jean-Luc was 14. It was an all Beatles music concert. During their late teens
they started a new band which they called “One Way” (only, at that time, it was
the wrong way). After writing original songs and practicing cover songs they
started playing the bar scene in Quebec. That got old and they started dreaming
about making it big in the USA. They knew that the one place on earth to “make
it” was called Hollywood. In the summer of 1988, Jean-Luc got as hold of a
cousin who had moved from Quebec to live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She offered to
help them move toward the “Promised Land” of Hollywood. That sounded good to the
aspiring young musicians. Little did they know that they were on their way to
meet their Savior. After more than a year of the bar scene in Albuquerque, the
band was going nowhere. The guys were getting along less and less, and the money
was not being saved, but was spent on a partying lifestyle. Jean-Luc decided to
get some extra work. One day, as he was looking for his usual rock station on
his Walkman, he went “too far” on the dial and ended up on a Christian station.
His ear caught what the preacher was quoting; “unless a man is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of Heaven”. That aroused his curiosity and so he stayed
there to listen to what this guy was saying. He eventually went to the church
and after a couple of times he went forward at an altar call. One Way broke up
and Yves, feeling sorry for his brother and his newfound faith, decided to stay
in the US with him. Jean-Luc shared with him but Yves was heavily into the
partying scene and was not interested. Yves eventually moved to Houston, TX. He
was up late one night channel surfing and he stopped on a Christian TV station.
The next couple of nights he kept tuning back to that station. His curiosity was
peaked as well by the message that was being shared. God was knocking! The TV
preacher was sharing the simple message of the gospel. Yves’ heart was taken.
The preacher was leading the people watching in a prayer to accept Jesus into
their hearts as Lord and Savior. Yves decided that he would do the same thing
his brother had done just nine months ago. He had now become a new creation. The
next day, Yves called his brother to tell him what had happened and asked him to
come and get him out of Houston to go back to Albuquerque. They started going to
Calvary Chapel of Albuquerque and started growing in the Lord. The youth pastor
of that church needed some musicians to help his Tuesday night youth group
meeting. He asked Jean-Luc and Yves to join him in leading worship. They had
regular meetings with the leaders in the youth group. Pete Nelson (guitar for
The Kry until 2000) and Jean-Luc got together after a leader’s meeting for the
youth group at Pete’s house and wrote a song together: “Letter of Love”. This
became a song on their first album. After that, the three of them started
writing songs and playing around the city for different youth rallies. The rest
is HIS-story. God has never stopped doing new and exciting things. Many years
later things have changed. Their sound has changed. Their location has changed
from Albuquerque to San Diego to Chino Hills. Their lives have changed. Their
purpose, however, remains the same. Their purpose is to provide believers with a
tool (music) to reach the unsaved and to provide a place (concert) to hear the
message of Jesus. They want to see people come to Christ through the conviction
of the Holy Spirit. The heart of The Kry has always been to be ministers of The
Word through the powerful medium of music to bring people to knowledge of God’s
character and give them an opportunity to hear and consider the gospel of Jesus.
In concert, they usually give everyone an opportunity to know Christ as their
personal Lord and Savior and experience the freedom of living on earth with the
hope of Heaven. They consider themselves ministers first who have been given the
vehicle of music as a natural platform to present a portion of their ministry.
Both Yves and Jean-Luc currently serve as pastors at their home church, Yves as
a college and career pastor and, jean-Luc as a Worship Pastor/leader. They
obviously have a love for worship and are also working on new music all the
time….look for their new album in the coming months…. Thanks for reading! The
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