Gospel Music Association announces Dove nominees for Songwriter of the Year

The Gospel Music Association (GMA) today announced the final nominees for the Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year, to be presented at the 36th Annual GMA Music Awards.  The nominees are Gerald Crabb, Jonathan Foreman, Brendan Graham, Mark Hall and Rolf Lovland.  The winner of the Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year will be named during the awards show on April 13 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.  Tickets are available at www.gmamusicawards.com.

“The Songwriter of the Year is an important honor in gospel music.  We congratulate these nominees for their songwriting success in the past year, and more significantly, for the many lives they touched with their songwriting gifts,” said John W. Styll, president of the GMA.

In addition to other songs they have written, each songwriter is nominated in the Song of the Year category.  Crabb, a prolific Southern Gospel songwriter and father of the Crabb Family children, wrote the nominated song, “Through the Fire.”  Switchfoot lead man Foreman wrote both “Dare You To Move” and “Meant To Live.”  Hall, of Casting Crowns, wrote “Who Am I.” Graham and Lovland wrote the Selah recorded song “You Raise Me Up.”