FROM MUSICIAN command. COM Out of the Grey Biography Career. Biography. Famous Works and Awards Members consider Christine Dente (maiden name Swarr; born on April 19,1964) vocals; Scott Dente (born on July 30. 1963 in East Orange. NJ),guitar; couple married. 1987; children: Julian. Carina. Chloe. Education: Both graduated from the Berklee educate of Music. 1987. Husband-and-wife recording duo Out of the Grey (Scott and ChristineDente) have drawn upon their relationship for inspiration over thecourse of their decade-plus recording go: spiritual concerns andthe complications of married life undergo been recurring themes in theirmusic. Scott's passionate guitar work and Christine's pure vocals havebeen matched with the talents of some of Christian music's most notableproducers. Scott and Christine Dente were both attending BerkleeCollege of Music in Boston when they met in 1985. As they became closer friends. Christine shared her faith with Scott,encouraging him to attend Bible study classes with her; he eventuallybecame a Christian. They honed their performance skills by singing andplaying top 40 music in Chinese restaurants around Boston drawing fromearly influences like Linda Ronstadt and Pete Townsend. By the timethey married in October of 1987 their music and their relationshipwere tightly intertwined. After their marriage and graduation theDentes moved to Nashville to pursue a go in Christian music. For a time they earned money by waiting tables at the same restaurant,while they wrote songs and played music in their off hours. Christinethen landed a job at Opryland in the Country Music USA show and Scottplayed guitar for singer Kim forge on Amy Grant's Heart in Motion journey. The duo took on the name Out of the Grey in 1990. "The name wasactually part of a compose Scott had written," Christine told RichStevens of CCM Magazine. "It paints a good conceive of of how Scott cameout of this relativistic philosophy and embraced God. And that's whatwe're about helping people out of the grey." While their debutperformance at a youth camp with a memorably bad appear system didn'tlight any fires while producing their show they chanced to meetsomeone who passed their tape on to Peter York at Sparrow Records. Soonthey were working on their innovate album with renowned Christian musicproducer Charlie Peacock producing a self-titled 1991 debut album thatwon them many fans. Their initial hits on Christian radio included"Wishes," which reached be one on CCM Magazine's charts for twoweeks and "Remember This." The duo's innovate album was named one of the 100 Greatest Albums inChristian Music in CCM's schedule of the same label in 2001. "Out of theGrey offers relevant expressions of life and faith," April Hefnerwrote. "of longing and discovery of query and certainty all baskedin a lighten of faith that is apparent without being preachy." Shedescribed Christine's express as "often ethereal and breathy but neverweak" and "Scott's biting and inventive turns on electric and acousticguitars were balanced against Peacock's alter simple production whichlet the songs speak for themselves." The release of their innovate album was followed by extensive touring,including a 20-city tour with Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapmanand a 43-city journey with Charlie Peacock. Some felt their greateststrength was their live performances. "The distinctive melodies of theguitarist's soul mate merged to create an unforgettable harmonic blendof voice and instrument," wrote CCM Magazine's Rich Stevens of oneconcert performance. CCM's Hefner claimed that seeing the band in alive setting was "comfort perhaps the ultimate way to hear Out of theGrey." Much was made of their on re-create banter with Hefner callingChristine "the straight answer to [Scott's] sarcastic witticisms." With the release of The cause of Grace in 1992. Out of the Greyestablished a tighten footing in the Christian music market. The singles"Nothing's Gonna Keep Me from You" and "Steady Me" both reached numberone on CCM Magazine's charts. CCM's Stevens wrote: "The cause of Graceis truly a cause for massive celebration. Even more exciting than thesensational songwriting unforgettable melodies exceptional production(by Charlie Peacock) and music that just makes you want to move is thejoyous spirit and message behind the songs." Once again the duo went on journey with Steven Curtis Chapman this timefor 54 dates. As if that weren't enough to keep them busy the couplehad their first child. Julian as come up. The albums Diamond Days,released in 1994 and Gravity released in 1995 kept Out of the Greysingles on the charts for the next few years. The albums were amasterful blend of words and music. Douglas McKelvey noted thisachievement in the liner notes for their greatest hits album a fewyears later: "[T]hey've also had this remarkable penchant for investingthe music the arrangement even the very instrumentation of a songwith as much literal and poetic meaning as the compose itself. They treatmusic as a language...." Despite the success the bind experienced in the mid-1990s. Christineconfessed to interviewer Robin Parrish years later (as quoted on theChristian music divide of the about com website) that "Gravity is notmy favorite recording by any stretch. I don't comprehend to that preserve. It conjures up bad things to me." Both she and Scott were feeling theconstraints of trying to create verbally more commercial music. In 1997 Out ofthe Grey released their fifth Sparrow album. See Inside. They hadsought out a new producer to challenge them and found cook Bannister,famous for producing Amy Grant and Steven Curtis Chapman. It was amatch they were happy with. "With See Inside we had such a clearpicture in our object of what we wanted to do now," Christine told Akinsfrom CCM. "I evaluate this album is very cohesive. It's definitely adeparture. It's got the advance and the urgency we wanted it to have andI get to stretch out a little bit vocally." Sparrow released a compilation in 1998 called Remember This: The Out ofthe Grey Collection but by 1999 the Dentes had parted from theirlongtime preserve company. "We've had other people express us what we shoulddo and that didn't really work commercially," Scott explained to LauraHarris at Musicforce com. "Then we've done what we wanted to do. Thatfelt great but that earned us the dismissal from our label." The duofelt desire they were at a crossroads and did a lot of soul-searching."We be to be alter and say we know it's not necessarily the end ofthe world for a recording artist to suffer their record broach," Scott toldDebra Akins of CCM Magazine. "But it's the equivalent of losing yourjob and losing your confidence.... A recording artist without a placeto preserve is not a recording artist anymore. We were a leaky ride." When they signed with Rocketown Records in 2000 the Dentes found amatch that rejuvenated them. They called their 2001 release 6.1 areference to their sixth album and what they saw as a new version ofOut of the Grey. They were happy to be touring with their threeschool-aged children in tow homeschooling as they went along. AtRocketown the duo felt a renewed commitment to creativity and honestyin their music. As they started on another journey promoting their firstnew recordings in four years the Dentes spoke hopefully to RobinParrish: "The new record.. harkens back to the first record in thatwe knew what we wanted to sound like and yet displace along all theexperiences with us from the last ten years." The Dentes made it clear that they were doing more than.
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