Dan Macaulay is a Contemporary Christian music recording artist and contemporary worship leader from Brantford, Ontario, Canada. He now resides in Williamsville, New York. Some of his most well-known songs are: "Amazing", "Hope Is Here ", "From You For You", "Win With Love", "Live Like You're Free", "Listening (Light Of The World", and "Permanent".
Musical career
Macaulay released his debut albumCaptured Again as an independent artist in 2004. The album won two 2007 Shai Awards, Worship Album of the Year and Male Soloist of the Year. The song "Open Sky" from Captured Again was selected to be on the Canadian Christian Worship compilation which won a GMA CanadaCovenant Award in 2006 for Special Events/Compilation Album of the Year. He released a 4-track EP in 2009 called The Listening EP produced by Nathan Nockels. The EP received two 2009 GMA Canada Covenant Award nominations, Pop ContemporarySong of the Year for "Listening", and Worship Song of the Year for "Amazing". These songs were then included on the full-length album called "From You For You" released in April 2012. Macaulay's song "Win With Love" from The Listening EP was chosen by Worship Leader magazine's Song Discovery program and was featured in their March and April 2009 issue. Also, "Live Like You're Free" from the full-length album "From You For You" was chosen by Worship Leader magazine's Song Discovery program to be featured in their May 2012 issue. Macaulay was a finalist in the 2011 session II John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Gospel song category for his song "In Awe" found on the album '"From You For You"' Macaulay worked with Michael W. Smith on a cover of Michaels song "Breathe in Me" from Michael's 1995 album I'll Lead You Home. Michael played keyboard on the recording and produced the track along with Bryan Lenox. This recording was included on Macaulay's April 3, 2012 full-length worship release "From You For You". Macaulay received four 2012 Canadian Gospel Music Award Nominations, including: "2012 Praise & Worship Album of The Year" ; "2012 Praise & Worship Song of The Year" ; "2012 Modern Worship Song of The Year" ; "2012 Seasonal Song of The Year". Original Christmas song "Hope Is Here ", released by Macaulay in November 2011 was listed by Praise Charts.com at No. 9 on their list of the "Top 100 Christmas Worship Songs"
Discography
Albums
From You For You Worship Leader Magazine March 2012 Review )
