Lacey Sturm

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Lacey Nicole Sturm (nÃÆ' Â © e Mosley , formerly Carder , born September 4, 1981) is an American singer and songwriter from Homestead, Florida , grew up in Arlington, Texas. He is one of the founders and former lead vocalist of the hard rock band Flyleaf. In February 2016, Sturm became the first solo woman to occupy the album charts of Hard Rock Albums with his debut release.

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Early life and education

Sturm was an atheist before becoming a Christian. He had thought of suicide and then ended up in a church where a man talked to him about what he believed to be the words of God, which led him to become a Christian.

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Careers

Flyleaf

In 2000, Sturm began playing with drummer James Culpepper. The pair worked with guitarists Sameer Bhattacharya and Jared Hartmann. In 2002, Pat Seals, the current Flyleaf bassist, merged, forming a group called Passerby . For legal reasons, they changed their name to Flyleaf in June 2004.

Sturm provides backing vocals on "Run to You" and "Born Again", two tracks on the third rock album of Kristen Kristen 2008 . Sturm received a pair of Grammy nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards for his work with Third Day: "Born Again" was nominated for Best Gospel Song and Best Gospel Performance.

Sturm also worked with Apocalyptica on their song "Broken Pieces" and with Orianthi on the song "Courage."

Sturm recorded the song, "Heavy Prey", for the Underworld: Awakening soundtrack.

On October 22, 2012, shortly before the release of New Horizons , Sturm revealed that he had left Flyleaf peacefully. The album was nominated for the 2012 Rock Album of the Year Dove Award.

Sturm revealed on his website in September 2013 that he signed a publishing deal with Baker Publishing Group. His first book was released in 2014 and the second is scheduled for release in October 2016.

The Whosoevers

The Whosoevers is a movement driven by what the founders see as an extraordinary need to encourage individuals and speak the goals into the lives of millions of people around the world. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2009 as a collaboration between Sonny Sandoval, Ryan Ries, and Brian "Head" Welch with a view to making a positive impact on music, skateboarding and art culture today. The ambassadors included Sturm, Annie Lobert, freestyle freestyle athlete Ronnie Faisst, and Islander band vocalist Mikey Carvajal.

Other jobs

Sturm has a role in the worldwide video Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, The Cross , released in November 2013. Lecrae and Sturm share a video in honor of Graham's 95th birthday. He sings the last song: "Mercy Tree". An accompanying album, My Hope , in which Sturm has two songs, "The Reason" and "Mercy Tree" was released.

Sturm has previously been involved with Hot Topic, modeling for their clothing line, LOVEsick.

He also appeared as a soloist at Franklin Graham's "Rock the Lakes", "Rock the Range", and the "Rock the River" evangelistic tour throughout mid-August and late September 2011 where he gave his testimony and sang two songs - a song written itself titled "The Reason", and an acoustic version of "Born Again" by Third Day. Sturm performs most of the "Rock the Lakes" and "Rock the River" events again in 2012.

Shortly after giving birth to his second son in August 2013, Sturm embarked on a nationwide speaking tour with Nick Hall of PULSE, a twin-city nonprofit organization. The ResetMovement is described on their website as empowering a generation to live completely for Jesus.

Sturm is the guest vocalist of the 2013 "Take the Bullets Away" by We as Human.

The reason is

In September 2014, Lacey Sturm's first book "The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living" was published. Sturm's book is an autobiography of his struggles in life, how he overcame them, and inspiration for those who fought themselves. "The day Lacey Sturm plans to commit suicide is the day when his old life is over.As an atheist who hates Christians, he thinks the church is a place for hypocrites, fans and fools.After a screaming match with his grandmother, he ends up in the back of the shelter, hated everyone in the room, but what happened in that room was the reason he was alive today. "

It was announced in March 2016 that her second book was entitled: Mystery: Finding Love in a Broken Lovers World will be available in October 2016. In this book Lacey shares her journey from a broken heart to wholeness with young women.

Solo

On October 13, 2014, Lacey announced via social media; Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, that he has a new band put together. "We are working on a solo project and we call it Lacey, the brilliant drummer Tom Gascon, the incredible bassist Ben Hull, my husband Josh Sturm who is a great guitarist and I have written some of my favorite heavy rock songs we will rock them for you tomorrow night I can not wait! "The band aired October 2014 at The Blind Tiger in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Her first solo album, Life Screams , was released in 2016 at no. 74 on Billboards 200 over the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. , No. 7 in Alternative and No Alternative Albums. 8 in Top Rock Album. In 2017, Sturm toured with American hard rock band Letters from the Fire.

In March and April 2018, Sturm plans to tour with Red, Righteous Vendetta and Messer.

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Personal life

On September 6, 2008, he married Joshua Sturm, guitarist for the Kairos band, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The couple had two sons together.

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Discography

Flyleaf

• Flyleaf (2005)
• Memento Mori (2009)
• New Horizons (2012)

solo album

• Life Screams (2016)

Single solo

Music videos

• "Rot" (2016)
• "The Soldier" (2018)

Guest appearances

• "Blank Page" - Resident Hero ( Feelings Before Impact )
• "Youth of the Nation" - P.O.D. ( Satellite ) (New Year's Live Eve MTV 2007)
• "Alive" - ​​â € <â € Satellite ) (New Year's Live Eve MTV 2007)
• "Lights Out" - P.O.D. ( Testify ) (New Year's Live Eve of MTV 2007)
• "Vendetta Black" - Resident Hero ( The White EP , View )
• "No Time" - Resident Hero ( View )
• "Born Again" and "Run to You" - Third Day ( Revelation )
• "The Nearness" - David Crowder Band ( Church Music )
• "Courage" - Orianthi (Believe II)
• "Corrupt Pieces" - Apocalyptica ( 7th Symphony )
• "Heavy Prey" - Geno Lenardo ( Underworld: Awakening (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) )
• "Pull Bullets" - We as Humans ( We as Humans )
• "Breaking Free" - Skillet ( Unleashed Beyond )

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Bibliography

• The reason: How I Found the Likely Life (October 2014)
• Mystery: Finding Love in a Broken Lovers World (October 2016))

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References

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