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Twila Paris Wright, D.D., (born December 28, 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a contemporary Christian songwriter, vocalist, and pianist.

As of 2006, she has released nineteen albums. Thirty-two of her singles have reached the Number 1 position on Christian radio national airplay charts. These include "He Is Exalted", "God Is In Control", "We Bow Down" and "The Warrior Is A Child". She has received five GMA Dove Awards, and three American Songwriter Awards.

Some of Paris' songs have been included in the hymnals by a variety of churches including the United Methodist church and various Charismatic churches. In recent years, Paris has focused on recording new versions of some of her worship standards and writing new praise and worship music in contrast to contemporary Christian pop songs that she released the latter 1990s.

Her uncle, Loren Cunningham is the founder of Youth With A Mission, while her family started Ecclesia College in Elm Springs, Arkansas, where her brother Oren Paris III is president and father Oren Paris II is chancello

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What Makes Twila Paris a Great Christian Musician?

I’ll never forget those hours as long as I live. On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was huddled in my basement office in the hospital where I worked. Every staff member was called in because of a threat made against the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower). All Chicago-area hospitals had to be on high alert. My marketing team dragged a small television in from another office as we scrambled to find information about what was happening. But my ears were glued to the radio in my office, tuned to a local Christian radio station, listening to their loop of Twila Paris’s “God is in Control.” It gave peace in a harrowing time, as I heard the lyrics reminding me that God does not forsake his children.

What makes a great Christian musician? Someone who writes and sings songs like “God is in Control” that draw people closer to God. Someone who seeks no glory but instead seeks that God be glorified. An artist who can take the truths of God’s word and combine them with a melody resonating with the listener. At the risk of sounding obvious

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Twila Paris

Twila Paris has released 22 albums, amassed 33 number one singles, and was named the Gospel Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year an astounding three separate times. Paris released her first full-length, Knowin’ You’re Around in 1981, and along the way she has written books, recorded children’s music, and created timeless worship songs. Her song “God Is In Control” won a GMA Song of the Year award in 1995 and her 1992 Sanctuary release won the GMA Praise & Worship Album of the Year, just to name a few of her accolades.

Twila Paris has helped to pioneer today’s praise and worship music and contributed greatly to making this informal style acceptable to normally more conservative churches. She is a well-rounded songwriter, displaying compositions with wide ranging spiritual application. And she’s much more than just a pop songwriter because familiar Paris songs, like “He Is Exalted” and “We Bow Down”, can also be found in many church hymnals. Twila says, “I want to encourage people to be faithful in what God has given them to do, however insignificant it