Brandon Heath, the Christian music singer, is a contemporary Christian musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released two studio albums: Don't Get Comfortable (2006) and What If We (2008). He is best known for the number one hits "I’M Not Who I Was” and Give Me Your Eyes”. He was nominated four times at the Dove Awards of 2008 and won in the "New Artist of the Year" category. His second album was nominated for "Gospel Album of the Year" at the 51st Grammy Awards of 2009.Brandon, the Christian music singer began his career by writing songs as a teenager. His first independently released album, Early Stuff (2004), was a compilation of his earlier songwriting. After also releasing Soldier in 2004, he signed with Reunion Records to release his first main studio album, Don’t Get Comfortable, in late 2006. The album's first single, "Our God Reigns", received a Dove Award nomination in 2007. Brandon’s the Christian music singer, song "I’M Not Who I Was” became number one single, staying on top of Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart for several weeks. It received two Dove nominations, including "Song of the Year". Heath returned in mid-2008 with a second project: What If We. The albums first single "Give Me Your Eyes” was released in July 2008 and ended the year as the second most-played song on R & R magazine's Christian CHR chart for 2008. The song received two GMA Dove Awards in 2009: "Song of the Year" and "Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year".
Brandon Heath Knell, the Christian music singer, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His father was a police officer, and his mother was a hair dresser. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and Brandon was raised by his single mother for five or six years before she remarried. Brandon, the Christian music singer, said that during his early life, he grew bitter towards his family, but in high school he decided to "[come] to the Lord because I wanted to learn how to forgive my dad for some mistakes that he made when I was younger. I had to forgive both of my parents for not sticking together." He was given a guitar as a Christmas gift at the age of 13, and around the same time he began writing his first songs. Brandon was a choir member at his school, Hillsboro High School in Nashville, and was encouraged by his teacher to pursue music.
Brandon, the Christian music singer, grew up non-religiously but was invited to attend a Christian Young Life camp as a teenager. While attending the summer camp at age 16, Brandon said he "heard about Jesus for the first time"; he said he never really went to church until attending the camp, and claimed that Young Life "showed me Christ and got me plugged in to a church”. After high school, he became a leader for the camp and is still involved with Young Life across the United States. Brandon attended Middle Tennessee State University and earned a BA in English. After his guitar was stolen in early 2000, he compiled a demo CD of his songs for sale to help pay for a new guitar.
