![]() ![]() The song also helped launch a new era of modern hymn writing.Īll of which came as a surprise to the song’s authors. ![]() That melody became the basis for “In Christ Alone,” which was released in 2001 and has become one of the most popular songs in Protestant churches, according to Christian Copyright Licensing International, which tracks songs sung in churches. So he sent a recording of the melody on a CD to Stuart Townend, an English songwriter he’d met a few months earlier at a church conference, in hopes Townend might be able to turn the melody into a serviceable hymn. This isn’t great, he thought at the time.īut it was the best he could come up with. The melody that changed Keith Getty’s life was first scratched out on the back of an electric bill in a humble flat in Northern Ireland. ![]() Keith Getty (left) and his wife, Kristyn. ![]()
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