Faith Filled Family Magazine November 2016 | Page 91

I understand you, Mike, and
John made a collaborative effort in writing ‘Follow
Through’. But when I listened
the record had a variety of
sounds. Is there some part
that when you listen you hear
each other’s influences? What
inspired some of the story and
empowering lyrics?
Life lessons empower the lyrics,
and we line those up with what
is biblical. Not just the things we
think are neat but things actually backed by scripture. Another
benefit with being a part of a band
is that there are 5 different guys,
with 5 different influences with 5
different sets of gifts and tools,
so with this record we thought
“wouldn’t it be fun to write from
this perspective?”
The body of christ is a diverse
group of people it seems like
christian music is the less diverse genre so we thought we’re
diverse people lets write songs
we are passionate about. There
are so many different sounds
and kinds of songs that mean
the most and will have a broader reach. We have latino, world
music, hip hop, rock, r&b, pop,
gospel, old spiritual, and it excites us because that is the body
of christ. Everyone in the group
has their fingerprint all over the
record. Thats what makes it
neat.
I totally agree with the neat
aspect. It’s very unique, and
thats what I was drawn to when
I was listening. There were
certain sounds that stood out
to me. But the overall feel of
the album was so diverse, and
there wasn’t a specific sound
that could be pinpointed on
the band based on this album.

Writing a record, we didn’t want
to do Unspoken #2. I remember a
quote from Lauryn Hill which was
a biblical truth, that if “you’re not
growing your’e dying.” So if our
music isn’t changing or evolving
it means we’re not living life. It
has to change, it has to evolve, it
has our DNA, our fingerprints on
it. If [the music] is not changing
or evolving then how is it fresh
and new to who we are now?
We are not the same people we
were 5 years ago, 3 years ago or
even when we wrote the first record. I hope the Lord uses it [the
record]. I have big dreams for it.
But again, God is sovereign and
I want Him to do what He wants
with it.

As Christians we don’t take the
same credit for it. We [Unspoken] have an independent label
where we are doing really great
things in a different way in our
industry. We have a good management team, booking agency,
and all these teams working with
us. All bands have this though.
So there is no formula or no way
that we can take credit for any of
it, other than we worked hard.

We have to remember success is
obedience. Success isn’t selling
100,000 records, even though
we love doing it. Success isn’t
selling 200,000 on the second
record. Success is being faithful to what God has called us
to. When you have those things
You saw quite a bit of success in mind, being in a band havwith your previous album. In ing the same heart, we give all
establishing who you are as a the praise and glory to God. We
band, and the greater accom- know we have nothing without
plishments you achieved, how Him. We give Him all the credit.
do you personally or collec- We really honestly believe that,
tively stay humble?
and we are grateful to be a part
There are so many gifted people of His plan.
in the world. I remember back in
the day, living in Philadelphia, For more on Unspoken, and to
Mike and I traveled around play- find tour dates near you, visit:
ing. We could go to a diner in the www.unspokenmusic.com
mall and hear the waiter humming to himself, or another per- To reach Unspoken through soson singing to themselves. Or cial media, click on any of the
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have me thinking “wow there
are so many gifted people in this
world.” The Lord spoke to me
very clearly at the Great American Diner in Philadelphia that
He wasn’t concerned about my
ability. He was concerned with
my availability. If I could be available then God could give me
whatever ability He would want
me to have. There are many
gifted people, and gifted Christian bands. Bands signed or unsigned.