Mitch McVicker

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Mitch McVicker is a Contemporary Christian Music artist who attended Friends University in Wichita, KS in the early 1990's, where he met and befriended the late Rich Mullins. After graduating in May of 1995, Mitch moved to New Mexico, eventually touring and writing songs with Mullins.

McVicker released 2007 album Love will rise. The musical style and vocals have been compared to those of Mullins.

With Mullins and song collaborator Beaker, Mitch co-wrote the musical The Canticle of the Plains, based on the life and teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi. Mitch also sang lead vocals on four songs of this project, completed in the fall of 1996, There You Are, Heaven Is Waiting, Things Even Angels and You Are All.

Mitch began recording his first solo project in the summer of 1997, a self titled album, Mitch McVicker, with the help of Mullins and Mark Robertson. But tragically, on the night of September 19, 1997, enroute to a benefit concert in Wichita, McVicker was seriously injured in the auto accident that took the life of his close friend, Rich Mullins.

Mitch was unable to resume work on his debut album for several months, but eventually released the album in 1998. Two songs off the album earned airplay on CCM stations across the country, Take Hold of Me and Here and Now.

Also in 1998, Mullins' last songwriting effort, The Jesus Record, was released. It included My Deliverer, a song written by both Mullins and McVicker which earned Mitch a Dove Award for song of the Year, 1999, which he shared with Rich.

Subsequent recordings include Chasing The Horizon released in 2000, and Without Looking Down released in 2002 and Love Will Rise in 2007. Mitch wrote a month of devotionals in the book 365 Meditations For Young Adults. He continues to do between 100-200 concerts a year with fellow Christian artists Brad Layher and Joe Curet.

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McVicker suffers from double-vision as a result of the car accident with Rich Mullins. He wears one white sock and one black sock and no shoes when he performs.

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