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Integrity writers honored at ASCAP awards ceremony Print Email
Written by Shannon Walker   
Wednesday, 01 April 2015 03:27 PM America/New_York

ASCAP-awardsIntegrity Music writers Travis Ryan and Matt Hooper were honored at the 2015 ASCAP Christian Music Awards for their song “We Believe,” which they performed during the ceremony.

“We Believe,” a No. 1 radio single for the Grammy Award-nominated group Newsboys, was recognized as one of the top five performed songs for 2014. In addition to writing for Integrity, Ryan and Hooper also record for the label.

Ryan will release a new live EP this summer that will be recorded at his church, LifePoint in Smyrna, Tennessee. Hooper, based in the UK, wrote and was featured on the LIFE Worship song “Dance Again,” which has garnered more than 10 million views on GodTube. (Shown in the top left photo are left-to-right: ASCAP's LeAnn Phelan, Integrity Music Creative Director Mike Murray, Matt Hooper and Travis Ryan.)

Integrity Music is the worship music recording and publishing home to a variety of artists and ministries around the globe including: All Sons & Daughters, Paul Baloche, New Life Worship, Planetshakers, Lincoln Brewster, LIFE Worship, Worship Central, Travis Ryan, Covenant Worship, NCC Worship, Dustin Smith, Desperation Band, Bluetree, Christine D’Clario, Stu G, Beth Croft, Sheldon Bangera, Danilo Montero, Jacobo Ramos, and Dove Award winning and nominated songwriters Jennie Lee Riddle, Israel Houghton, Jared Anderson, Michael Farren and Michael Neale.