Luke Munns

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Luke Munns
Birth name Luke Andrew Munns
Born September 20, 1980 (1980-09-20) (age 27)
Origin Flag of Australia Sydney, Australia
Genre(s) rock
Occupation(s) Producer, songwriter, performer
Instrument(s) Drums, vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Years active 1999 – present
Label(s) Hillsong music, elevensenses
Associated acts LUKAS, Able, Hillsong United (band)
Website [1]

Luke Andrew Munns (born 20 September 1980) in the Northern Beaches of Sydney is a musician, producer and songwriter, known as the key worship drummer of Sydney based worship band Hillsong United, the worship band of Hillsong Church's youth group. Luke was one of original members of Hillsong United but left in 2005 to pioneer the rock/indie/folk band LUKAS as lead singer/songwriter. He currently attends Christian City Church, Oxford Falls and is a strong Christian believer. He is the oldest of four brothers. Munns was also the drummer for the band Able, which comprised of Marty Sampson, Michael Guy Chislett and Joel Houston, which won the Channel V Leg Up competition in 2001.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Munns began playing piano at the young age of three years old, and focussed his efforts to playing drums from the age of seven.[1]

[edit] Able

Munns joined the Hillsong United band at age 13. At the same time as this, Munns met with fellow Hillsong United members bass player Joel Houston and guitarist and vocalist Marty Sampson and younger member Michael Guy Chislett. The band went through a name change from Consecrated to Able and in 2001, the band was selected by Channel V as its Leg Up competition winners. With the winnings from this competition, Able put together The Able EP at a recording studio in Byron Bay, but shortly after releasing the EP, the band broke up and poured their efforts into Hillsong United.

[edit] Hillsong United

Munns' first debut with the Hillsong United as their live recording drummer was in 1999. As part of Hillsong United music team, Munns has toured in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has also contributed to the main Hillsong album recordings as well, which are led by worship pastor Darlene Zschech. Songs he has written are sung in churches worldwide and have been translated into 32 languages, including Korean and German. His drumming has been featured on Hillsong albums that have quickly risen on both the Australian and American Christian music charts.[2] In 2002 Munns designed the official UNITED logo which is still currently in use today and also designed the album artwork for Best Friend (Hillsong United album) (2000), To the Ends of the Earth (album) (2002) and More Than Life (2004).

[edit] LUKAS

In 2004 Luke pioneered the band LUKAS and recorded 6 songs in his home studio. Since then the LUKAS Demo EP has over 400,000 downloads worldwide. He then toured around Australia on a support solo tour with Australian/NZ folk artist Brooke Fraser and then went back into the studio to record the You & Me EP with producer Brendan Anthony (INXS, Midnight Oil, Jimmy Barnes, Brianna Carpenter (Australian Idol) in Studios 301, Sydney.

LUKAS (from left to right: Sam O'Donnell, Troy Munns, Luke Munns, Chris Whitehall

LUKAS You & Me front cover art

[edit] Discography

Hillsong Albums on which Munns has performed:

Recent appearances:

  • LUKAS - You & Me EP (2007)
  • Mia Fieldes - There's A Reason (2007)
  • Mia Fieldes - Minus The Walls (2008)

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NAME Munns, Luke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20 September 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH