| Backstage at the Doves |
| Louie Giglio winner of the Youth/Children's Musical category with "His Renown" stopped short of talking to the press to look at the camera. Thank you! |
| "Praise God and all this is for his name and his fame." Louie Giglio |
| Blind Boys of Alabama won for Traditional Gospel Album ~ Atom Bomb |
| Ed Cash- Producer of the Year & Special Album Event (Narnia) |
| John Morgan as President Bush "I believe that Christ has called each of us to image Him forth to the world." |
| Crista Wells Songwriter of the Year ~ "Held" |
| Israel Houghton Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song ~ "Not Forgotten" |
| Cindy Morgan |
| David Crowder - Rock/Contemporary Album ~ A Collision |
| Casting Crowns "We sing songs about real life and where we live and what we're learning is when we're transparent about the things that we're dealing with we start realizing everybody's dealing with the same stuff. I think that's what connects us the most." |
| Chris Tomlin Artist/Male Vocalist of the Year |
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| GMA 2006 |
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| Winners & Presenters of the 2006 GMA Music Awards |
Chris Tomlin took home an indescribable five Dove Awards. Congratulations!!! |
| Alison Krauss - Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year ~ "Living Prayers" |
| KJ-52 won for Rap/Hip Hop Album Behind the Musik "I realized a long time ago that I didn't have a lot to offer but I said Lord whatever I have is for you." |
| Relient K - Rock Album Mmhmm |
| Leonardo - Spanish Language Album ~ Leonardo |
| Mark Schultz on the screen backstage accepting his 1st GMA Music Award. |
| Assyria & Pele' "Sport and music to us is the same, the same passion." |
| Martha Munizzi "My heart is to cross as many borders and boundaries and link as many things together as we can through music." |
| Dave Ramsey "..your ministry grows by your experience." |
| Natalie Grant "Female Artist of the Year" "...pick up the book of truth and saturate your soul, and your mind and your spirit with the word of God who tells us who we are." |
| Grits |
| Shirley Caesar |
| The Crabb Family answers a phone call while questioned by the media. |
| Steven Curtis Chapman and his family celebrate backstage with his 50th Dove Award. "I am really speechless." |
| Brian Littrell winner of the Inspirational Recorded Song "In Christ Alone" told us that he has won many awards but this is the only one that is going on the mantle. |
| Mark Miller (Sawyer Brown) "God just opened the door...and I kept getting led down this road to produce." |
| Mark Schultz wins his first Dove award and a standing ovation from the media backstage. "What I love doing more than anything is writing songs." |
| Andrae' Crouch "He gets all the glory." |
| Building 429 were last year's GMA New Artist of the Year recipients. Currently they are headlining a tour with Tait, Hyper Static Union and Travel the Road and are promoting their second album release entitled "Rise." www.building429.com |
| Ken Bottenfield presenter |
| The Afters New Artist of the Year |
| Third Day Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year ~ Cry Out To Jesus |
| Jars of Clay "God has redeemed the whole of us our entire bodies, our entire minds and he asks us to live in the fullness of that. We've got to start getting used to the fact that we're going to be broken and yet at the same time capable of great things as we embody what God brings to us." |
| Kutless performed new single "Shut Me Out." |
| Cheryl "Salt" Wray |
| Kirk Franklin & Rebecca St. James were the co-hosts for the evening |
| "Worship of God is not a trend and I just want to continue to stay really focused on writing songs that the church can sing." Chris Tomlin |
| "I believe in the yolk shattering Holy Spirit with the power that is in Jesus Christ." Ed Cash |
