Releasing next month, Beauty Will Rise is a collection of 12 songs from Steven Curtis Chapman--created in the past 18 months since the loss of his daughter Maria, in a tragic auto accident.

Part lament, part praise, part grief, part hope, part wrestling and part pondering, Chapman has described the songs as his "personal psalms."

Due to the intensely personal nature of the project, Chapman made the album in a total vacuum while traveling across the country on tour last fall and spring. During that period he wrote of being "in the middle of part of the beauty that God is bringing from the pain and ashes of our last year."

Chapman said he began the process a couple of months after his daughter's May 2008 death, "not really knowing if I would ever feel like I could sing, stand on stage again or express the emotions, the grief and the loss in music."

Sparrow Records has been promoting the album--to be distributed by EMI CMG Distribution--through a national media campaign and the release of a CD single to Christian retail stores and digital markets.

Read more in the Nov. 9 issue of Christian Retailing magazine.

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