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Kellie Loder (born 1988) is an independent singer-songwriter from Newfoundland, Canada, who plays drums, guitar, and piano. She has released two Contemporary Christian music (CCM) albums: ''The Way'' in 2009 and ''Imperfections & Directions'' in 2010. With a voice that St. John's-based newspaper ''The Telegram'' has described as "powerful yet serene and soulful", she has been nominated for awards at the annual MusicNL awards in Newfoundland, as well as at the Juno Awards, Canada's top music prizes. Loder wrote her first song at age 16 about a cousin who had died in a traffic accident. She was studying nursing at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland when she released ''The Way'' in August 2009. Also that year, she won a talent-search contest hosted by YC Newfoundland, a Christian youth conference, and, as part of the award, was given time with music professionals who helped her with ''Imperfections & Directions'', which was released at the 2010 YC Newfoundland. Loder's nursing studies hampered her ability to showcase ''Imperfections & Directions'' by touring. Loder was nominated as Female Artist of the Year at the 2010 MusicNL awards, and then as Gospel Artist of the Year in 2011. ''Imperfections & Directions'' was nominated as Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year at the 2012 Juno Awards. ==Early life== Kellie Loder was born to Christina and Bob Loder in 1988,〔For Loder's parents names, see *For Loder's age, see 〕 and was raised in Badger, a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. She considers her first introduction to music to have taken place before she was born; her mother frequently played Michael W. Smith songs to her through headphones while she was still in the womb.〔 Loder claims to have "natural rhythm" and that she began emulating the drummer at her Pentecostal church by beating on a pew with pencils at the age of two.〔For the denomination of the Loder's church, see *For the origins of Loder's drumming, see 〕 At age 10, Loder was placed in her church's drumming ensemble. Loder's younger brother taught her three guitar chords when she was 14, and she received her first guitar later that year.〔For the age at which Loder began playing guitar, see *For the age at which Loder received her first guitar, see 〕 She began writing songs at age 16. Her first song, which was about a cousin who had died in a traffic accident, used lyrics from a poem by one of their mutual friends. With encouragement from her family, Loder concentrated on her singing and songwriting and performed this in addition to another she subsequently wrote for a friend's graduation.〔 Loder was raised as a Christian by her parents, and considers herself to have become serious about her faith in 2007, when she "started to accept () gifts for what they were... and just assumed it was () God."〔 After this experience, she began playing piano, and credited God with teaching her how to play. Loder favours the piano, considering it the most beautiful of the instruments she plays.〔 The first song she wrote after beginning the piano was "Giants", also for a graduating class; the song uses the story of Goliath as its theme, generalizing the story to apply to each individual's internal struggles.〔For the first song Loder wrote and the theme of that song, see *For the manner in which Loder used the story of Goliath in the song "Giants", see 〕 "Giants" eventually appeared on both of her albums: ''The Way'' and ''Imperfections & Directions''.〔For the information about ''The Way'', see *For the information about ''Imperfections & Directions'', see 〕 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「Kellie Loder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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