Ozark Revival Quartet

I grew up in Minnesota….not a lot of Gospel Music up there…… I met my wife Janet in MN and then we moved to Colorado for 13 years.  While living in CO I had the opportunity to sing at Denver First Church of the Nazarene.  This was a large church that used to host a number of different artists and that was the first time I ever heard a Southern Gospel Group (The Cathedrals).  Shortly after hearing them I was approached by Legacy Quartet to sing Tenor. We traveled all over Colorado and Arizona and toured South Korea and Australia.  

In 1998 we moved to NWA and attended Fellowship Bible Church.  I remember telling the worship leader at the time that I was really interested in getting into another Southern Gospel group and that I probably wouldn’t get too involved at Fellowship.  Couldn’t find a group until 19 years later with ORQ. Fortunately, I was able to get involved at Fellowship and left the vendor world and became a full-time worship leader for 5 years at Fellowship.  

Since then I’m back in the vendor world helping clients around the country manage their business at Walmart.  I have 2 children who are both married and living in Northwest Arkansas and 2 wonderful grandchildren that we get to spend a lot of time with.

I was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA.  I married my beautiful wife, Kathy, in 1985.  I have been through a few trials, first with the loss of  our youngest son.  Then after 33 years of marriage, I lost my Kathy.  This road has not been easy, but God has been there every step of the way.

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I have been singing all of my life beginning in church. I started my own group in California called The Golden State Quartet.  We traveled all over until I moved to Oklahoma in 2005.  Since then I have sung with The Melody Boys Quartet, The Songfellows Quartet and the Blackwood Quartet.  I am looking forward to what God has in store for me with Ozark Revival Quartet.

I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and was always involved in music and sports.

I moved to Northwest Arkansas in 1990.  So Arkansas is home now, even though I am a University of Kansas Jayhawk, which is where I earned my degree in music. I was heavily involved in musical theater and had considered a Broadway career, but quickly realized that  I wanted a family more than a career in performance.

I have been married to my wife, Sandy, for 38 years.  We have three grown children and three granddaughters.  Sandy and I have been attending Fellowship Bible Church of NWA for 34 years and have been in small group leadership that whole time.

I helped develop and opened MarketPlace Grill in 1995.  I have operated restaurants in Arkansas for 30 years. I love music, the outdoors, cooking, martial arts, and I am a general aviation pilot. 

I enjoy using my gifts to serve the greater church, in music, leading small groups, and mission trips.

I grew up listening to my Dad butcher many of Southern Gospel Music’s BEST songs, he could not carry a tune in a bucket! Little did I know that the seed was planted in me at an early age to be a bass singer in a quartet. And here I am!!

Away from Ozark Revival I have spent the last 30 years doing “radio”. Now, being on the air is fun….it’s hard to call it “work” but I have found a great passion in helping the many non-profits in the area as they strive to make positive differences in the lives of people here in the area.

My wife Tara and I attend New Heights Church when I am not singing. 

I have one daughter and two small grandsons that I am in the process of spoiling!!

And I am owned by an English Bulldog named Lulu….she allows me to get out from time to time!!