Billy Ray Hearn
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Billy Ray Hearn (April 26, 1929 â April 15, 2015) was the founder and chairman of the Capitol Christian Music Group (formerly EMI Christian Music Group) the world's largest Christian music label.
In 1954, Billy Ray Hearn graduated from Baylor University with a degree in church music. In 1972, Hearn started Myrrh Records, one of the first labels devoted to contemporary Christian music, at Word Inc., the label of Amy Grant. In 1976, he formed his own label, Sparrow Records, the label behind musicians Keith Green, John Michael Talbot, and Margaret Becker.
In 1992, Hearn sold Sparrow to EMI Music, the label of artists including Steven Curtis Chapman and BeBe & CeCe Winans. Hearn was a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and in 1999 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Gospel Music Association. Hearn was also founder and sponsor of the biannual Hearn Symposium on Christian Music at Baylor University. He died in 2015 of complications from heart disease.
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- Jesus Christ Is Risen Today / Now Let the Heavens Be Joyful / Christ the Lord Is Risen Today / Easte by Billy Ray Hearn
- Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive/O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings
- A Gift from God
- The City of David
- I Will Praise Him / Jesus Paid It All (Medley) by Billy Ray Hearn
- The Infant Jesus
- Miraculous Night
- Beneath the Cross of Jesus / When I Survey the Wondrous Cross / In the Cross of Christ I Glory (Medl by Billy Ray Hearn
- Hallelujah Chorus / All Glory, Laud and Honor / Holy, Holy, Holy (Medley) by Billy Ray Hearn
- I Know That My Redeemer Liveth / The Strife Is O'er, The Battle Done/I Know That My Redeemer Lives / by Billy Ray Hearn
- My Faith Looks Up To Thee / Lamb of Glory / Worthy Is the Lamb (Medley) by Billy Ray Hearn
- What Wondrous Love Is This / Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs / And Can It Be? (Medley) by Billy Ray Hearn
- I Know a Fount / O, the Blood of Jesus (Medley) by Billy Ray Hearn
- He Is Lord / Our God Reigns / All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name / Crown Him With Many Crowns (Medley by Billy Ray Hearn
