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Derek DeGrate was born in Hampton, Virginia. July, 9th 1970. He is an inspirational and gospel recording artist and songwriter. He has been involved in the music industry since age 13. Derek began writing songs, performing (including singing, playing bass guitar, drums and keyboards ) at age 7. Derek has one son. Derek was born into a musical family. His father; Donald DeGrate Sr. Is a world-renowned gospel artist and his brothers are two members of the multi platinum group-Jodeci, "DeVante Swing" (Donald DeGrate Jr.) and "Mr. Dalvin" (Dalvin DeGrate) and are multi talented musicians, producers and writers as well. ==Discography and musical accomplishments== 1991 Derek DeGrate wrote and performed Bass guitar melody for the movie soundtrack ''Strictly Business''. Starring Halle Berry The bass guitar melody was featured on the song "Let's fly" which was performed by Jodeci. Derek DeGrate also was credited on JODECI's "Diary of a mad band" album, which a Bass Guitar melody was written by Derek DeGrate and featured on the song "fun 2 nite", recorded by Jodeci. 1992-1993 Derek DeGrate wrote a song for the major record label Homeland Records/Word Records(now a part of Epic Records) the song is titled "paid when he died". It was recorded by Don DeGrate and Strong tower, which Derek was also a member of the trio. The group was nominated for the "horizon music award", which is one of Gospel's largest ceremonies (taken place at the national quartet convention) the group was featured on a few of the Bill Gaither homecoming series" videos. The most popular video is "revival" of the Bill and Gloria Gaither video series, which the group performed "sold out", Which Derek is featured. The performance aired all over the world and to this day is still aired on TBN (Trinity broadcasting network) 1993-1994 Derek DeGrate]wrote 4 songs for the Homeland/Word Records label and signed a publishing deal with Centergy music group of Nashville Tennessee. The Songs were recorded by Don DeGrate and Strong tower and entered into the top 20 national charts of the "Singing News magazine" and "the U.S. Gospel news magazine". This year the group was again invited to perform at Bill Gaither's Homecoming series video recording. The group performed "I just wanna testify". Derek, along with the group performed live in Indianapolis, IN. at "Praise Gathering", an event produced and hosted by Bill Gaither. The event had a live audience of more than 20,000 people and viewed on television by more than 30 million people. 1995 Derek DeGrate signed another publishing Deal with Zion music group and wrote 3 songs for Don DeGrate and Strong tower which were recorded on the "transformed" album. The song "wait on an answer" became a top 20 hit and gained worldwide recognition. One of the most memorable moments is when Derek was approached by the famous "JD Sumner and the Stamps (who were Elvis Pressley's Singing partners and good friends) Asked Derek if they could record a song which Derek wrote. The song is titled "Just Ask Lazurus". Derek recalls, "A member of The Stamps came up to me and said " who wrote just ask Lazurus?" Derek said , "I did".. The guy from The Stamps said, "I want to talk to you about recording it!" Derek said "okay!" However, due to some business issues, the song was not recorded by them, but It excited Derek just to know that they wanted to record the song!!! 2002 Derek DeGrate released his first Solo album "The Other Brother" which was released by his own label; DuffStuff Records. The album landed an exclusive interview and review by (Gospelflava.com ) and by Linda Hobbs of Vibe magazine 2009 Derek DeGrate]released a followup album "the other brother part two" which was released by his own label; Duffstuff Records. The album is featured in USA today and (Singersroom ) 2015 Derek DeGrate released a solo album "Moving Forward", which is released by his own Label DuffStuff Records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek DeGrate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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