Joel Houston

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Joel Houston (born September, 1979) is the Hillsong United Creative Oversight/Producer at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. He is the son of pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston and grandson of Frank Houston. He is one of three children. He has a brother named Benjamin and a sister named Laura. As part of the Hillsong United music team, he has not only participated in the creation of the albums (being a main leader and songwriter), but has produced them as well. As part of United, he has helped lead worship conferences all over the world, visiting North America, South America, Africa and Europe. Houston has also contributed to the main Hillsong church recordings as well, which are led by worship pastor Darlene Zschech. Many of the songs he has written or co-written are sung in churches worldwide and have been translated into 32 languages, including Korean and German. His music has been featured on Hillsong albums that have quickly risen on both the Australian and American Christian music charts.[1], [2]

[edit] Discography

Albums on which Houston has written and performed songs:

• Everyday(1999)
  • "Everyday"
• For This Cause (2000)
  • "For This Cause"
  • "Everyday"
• Best Friend (2000)
  • "Best Friend"
• You Are My World (2001)
  • "My Best Friend" with Marty Sampson
• Blessed (2002)
  • "One Desire"
• To the Ends of the Earth (2002)
  • "All About You"
  • "All"
  • "To The Ends Of The Earth" with Marty Sampson
  • "Am I To Believe?"
• Hope (2003)
  • "To The Ends Of The Earth" with Marty Sampson
• More Than Life (2003)
  • "One Way" with Jonathon Douglass
  • "Evermore"
  • "Open Up The Heavens"
  • "Where The Love Lasts Forever"
• For All You've Done (2004)
  • "One way" with Jonathon Douglass
  • "Evermore"
• Look to You (2004)
  • "Salvation Is Here"
  • "Tell The World" with Jonathon Douglass and Marty Sampson
  • "Shout Unto God" with Marty Sampson
  • "'Til I See You"
• God He Reigns (2005)
  • "Salvation Is Here"
  • Yours Is The Kingdom"
  • "Tell The World" with Jonathon Douglass and Marty Sampson
• United We Stand (2005)
  • "The Time has Come"
  • "From The Inside Out"
  • "Revoultion" with Scott Ligertwood, Marty Sampson, Brooke Fraser, Michael Guy Chislett
  • "No One Like You"
  • "The Stand"
• Mighty to Save (2006)
  • "The Freedom We Know" with Matt Tenikoff and Marty Sampson
  • "From The Inside Out"
• All of the Above (2007)
  • "Point of Difference"
  • "Break Free" with Matt Crocker and Scott Ligertwood
  • "Desperate People" with Michael Guy Chislett
  • "Solution" with Matt Crocker
  • "My Future Decided" with Jonathon Douglass
  • "Never Let Me Go"

[edit] See also

• Hillsong Music
• List of Hillsong albums
• List of Hillsong songs

[edit] External links

• Hillsong Music Australia
• Hillsong United Website
• Personal Myspace page
• Christianity Today interview
• A Passion For His Presence article at Beliefnet
• Fresh 103.2 Interview
• BBC Heart-throb rock gods united in song