Luke Munns

Luke Andrew Munns (born 20 September 1980) in the Northern Beaches of Sydney is a musician, record 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 surrendered his position in 2005 to pioneer the rock/indie/folk band Lukas as lead singer/songwriter. He is a member of Hillsong Church, Sydney and is a strong Christian believer. He is the oldest of four brothers. Munns was also the drummer for many Hillsong Church albums, and the band Able, which was composed of Marty Sampson, Michael Guy Chislett and Joel Houston, which won the Channel V Leg Up competition in 2001.

Biography

Early life

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

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 instead poured their efforts into Hillsong United.

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. In 2002 Munns designed the official UNITED logo which is still currently in use today and also designed the album artwork for Best Friend (2000), To the Ends of the Earth (2002) and More Than Life (2004).

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.

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  Lukas - 2006 Lineup

Discography

Hillsong Albums on which Munns has performed:

• By Your Side (1999)
• Everyday (1999)
• For This Cause (2000)
• Best Friend (2000)
• You Are My World (2001)
• King of Majesty (2001)
• Blessed (2002)
• To the Ends of the Earth (2002)
• Hope (2003)
• More Than Life (2004)
• Hillsong/Delirious? UP: Unified Praise (2004)
• For All You've Done (2004)
• Look to You (2005)

Recent appearances:

• Lukas - You & Me EP (2007)
• Mia Fieldes - There's A Reason (2007)
• Mia Fieldes - Minus The Walls (2008)
• GMF - Ride of Life (2008)
• Awakening '09 Conference intro music (2009)
• Hillsong - Colour Your World Women's Conference '09 promotional music (2009)
• Lukas - Shine Your Glory Single (2009)
• Everywoman Promo - Jack Diaz (2009)
• C3 - Send Down Your Love (2010)
• Presence Conference - Promo (2010)
• Hillsong - A Beautiful Exchange (2010)
• RICE Revolution Conference (2010)
• C3 - Undivided (2010)
• Loveis Album (2010)
• Abandoned Single Ft. Northie (2013)

References

1. ↑ "By Your Side". Special features (Hillsong Music). 2001. 

External links

• Lukas MySpace page
• Fresh 103.2FM Lukas EP Review
• Fresh 103.2 Fresh 103.2FM Artist of the Month
• Link to Northie's Music