Mark Schultz Finds Life 'Broken & Beautiful'
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
With the father not sticking around, she must decide what to do with the unborn child. If she has the baby, can she finish school? Can she financially support the child? How about an abortion?[[In-content Ad]]She seeks guidance and thinks deeply about the matter. She determines that the best option for her is to give the baby up for adoption.
Schultz, who wrote the song from the point of view of the child later in life, sings, "I must have felt your tears/When they took me from your arms/I'm sure I must have heard you say goodbye/Lonely and afraid had you made a big mistake/Could an ocean even hold the tears you cried/But you had dreams for me/You wanted the best for me/And you made the only choice you could that night/You gave life to me/A brand new world to see/Like playing baseball in the yard with dad at night/Mom reading 'Goodnight Moon'/And praying in my room/So if you worry if your choice was right/You gave me up but you gave everything to me."
The song is off Schultz's latest CD "Broken & Beautiful."
When Schultz writes his songs, he writes them in a chapel in Nashville, he said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon. He'll put on a cup of coffee and wait for them to come. Sometimes they take longer than others. All of his songs on his albums were written at that chapel.
Schultz said he grew up in a small town in Kansas and went to college at Kansas State University. After school, in 1994, he decided to move to Nashville, Tenn., to try to start a music career. He didn't know anyone there.
For a year, he worked as a waiter. For the next six years, he served as a youth director at a church. It was while working as a youth director that he decided to go into contemporary Christian music.
He wrote songs for the youth and everyone responded well to it.
In 2000, after performing at the Grand Ole Opry, he signed a record deal. His first album, self-titled, was released in 2001.
"I think it's awesome," he said when asked to reflect back on it. When he writes songs, he said they are photographs of where he was at that time. When he listens to that first album, it takes him back to that period in his life.
Since then, Schultz said he's released about four studio albums and one live DVD.
"Each record is special in its own way," he said.
His new CD, "Broken & Beautiful," is his fastest-selling CD, he said.
Schultz is on tour promoting his latest release. Since he's got the touring down, it's not as hard as it was the first time around. On his first tour, he said, he got really burned out because he never did it before.
For anyone who goes and sees one of his shows, Scultz said they are "very well-rounded, high energy, but I tell the story behind each of my songs."
At one show, a woman approached him after the concert and told him that his show felt like they were all sitting around a fireplace at his home, listening to him play the piano.
But it's the audiences who dictate his shows. If they have lots of energy, the shows get better, Schultz said. The shows are a shared experience, he said.
"It's a little bit of everything," he said. "People are going to laugh and cry, too. It'll hit every emotion in the book. All will love it."
While on tour, Schultz is working on his book scheduled to be released in the spring. Titled "Inspiration to Go Further," the book is about the bike ride Schultz took this past year across America to raise money for orphans. The bike ride raised a quarter of a million dollars, he said.
Schultz will perform at the Honeywell Center, Wabash, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35, $24, $19 and $10. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Honeywell Box Office at 260-563-1102, or visit online at www.honeywellcenter.org
On the Net: www.markschultzmusic.com
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With the father not sticking around, she must decide what to do with the unborn child. If she has the baby, can she finish school? Can she financially support the child? How about an abortion?[[In-content Ad]]She seeks guidance and thinks deeply about the matter. She determines that the best option for her is to give the baby up for adoption.
Schultz, who wrote the song from the point of view of the child later in life, sings, "I must have felt your tears/When they took me from your arms/I'm sure I must have heard you say goodbye/Lonely and afraid had you made a big mistake/Could an ocean even hold the tears you cried/But you had dreams for me/You wanted the best for me/And you made the only choice you could that night/You gave life to me/A brand new world to see/Like playing baseball in the yard with dad at night/Mom reading 'Goodnight Moon'/And praying in my room/So if you worry if your choice was right/You gave me up but you gave everything to me."
The song is off Schultz's latest CD "Broken & Beautiful."
When Schultz writes his songs, he writes them in a chapel in Nashville, he said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon. He'll put on a cup of coffee and wait for them to come. Sometimes they take longer than others. All of his songs on his albums were written at that chapel.
Schultz said he grew up in a small town in Kansas and went to college at Kansas State University. After school, in 1994, he decided to move to Nashville, Tenn., to try to start a music career. He didn't know anyone there.
For a year, he worked as a waiter. For the next six years, he served as a youth director at a church. It was while working as a youth director that he decided to go into contemporary Christian music.
He wrote songs for the youth and everyone responded well to it.
In 2000, after performing at the Grand Ole Opry, he signed a record deal. His first album, self-titled, was released in 2001.
"I think it's awesome," he said when asked to reflect back on it. When he writes songs, he said they are photographs of where he was at that time. When he listens to that first album, it takes him back to that period in his life.
Since then, Schultz said he's released about four studio albums and one live DVD.
"Each record is special in its own way," he said.
His new CD, "Broken & Beautiful," is his fastest-selling CD, he said.
Schultz is on tour promoting his latest release. Since he's got the touring down, it's not as hard as it was the first time around. On his first tour, he said, he got really burned out because he never did it before.
For anyone who goes and sees one of his shows, Scultz said they are "very well-rounded, high energy, but I tell the story behind each of my songs."
At one show, a woman approached him after the concert and told him that his show felt like they were all sitting around a fireplace at his home, listening to him play the piano.
But it's the audiences who dictate his shows. If they have lots of energy, the shows get better, Schultz said. The shows are a shared experience, he said.
"It's a little bit of everything," he said. "People are going to laugh and cry, too. It'll hit every emotion in the book. All will love it."
While on tour, Schultz is working on his book scheduled to be released in the spring. Titled "Inspiration to Go Further," the book is about the bike ride Schultz took this past year across America to raise money for orphans. The bike ride raised a quarter of a million dollars, he said.
Schultz will perform at the Honeywell Center, Wabash, Dec. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $35, $24, $19 and $10. For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Honeywell Box Office at 260-563-1102, or visit online at www.honeywellcenter.org
On the Net: www.markschultzmusic.com
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