This episode explores Sandi's journey from shy beginnings to becoming a powerhouse vocalist with 40 Dove Awards and 5 Grammys. Through interviews with music industry professionals and heartfelt performances, viewers witness Sandi's resilience through personal struggles and her unwavering commitment to delivering messages of faith and love through her music. The series culminates in a powerful message of redemption and grace, leaving viewers inspired and uplifted by Sandi's incredible story.
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Remember the Music | The Sandi Patty Story | Remember the Music | November 17, 2025
- Course! [laughter] >>i'm playing it. >>are you? >>i'm playing in
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- The orchestra for you. >>you are? >>yeah. i'm playing my
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- Cello for you. >>oh! i'm so happy! >>yeah, you don't know
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- How happy that makes me.
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- [music]
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- >>hello, my name is jaci
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- Velasquez and i'd like to welcome you to this 13-part
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- Series ‘remember the music'! sandi patty-what a voice! in
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- Fact, she's simply known as the voice long before “the voice”
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- Became a hit television show. she's one of the most highly
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- Acclaimed performers in contemporary christian music.
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- Sandi has been celebrated with a whopping 40 dove awards, 5
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- Grammys, multiple platinum and gold records, and more than 12
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- Million units sold worldwide. when the statue of liberty was
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- Rededicated in 1986, sandi shot to stardom when her rendition of
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- “the star-spangled banner” aired on abc, and the world stopped
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- Spinning and said, who is that. sandi and her record producer,
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- Greg nelson, reminisce about when arranger david clydesdale
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- Asked sandi how high do you want the end note? sandi said, please
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- Don't write it above a ‘b' on the last note. she came into the
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- Studio and clydesdale had written a d flat on the end.
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- Sandi asked him, what in the world happened? he goes. my pen
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- Slipped but don't worry, you're never gonna have to sing it
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- Again. well, let's just say sandi's vocal range has never
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- Been the same from singing that song again and again. lucky for
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- Us, as her fans. [music] sandi never set out in life to become
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- A recording artist. but as god ordered her steps, she landed at
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- Anderson university in indiana, and started singing background
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- Vocals for local recording studios to make ends meet. enter
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- Bill and gloria gaither hearing some of those recordings and
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- Sandi's life would never be the same. sandi patty: music was
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- Just something our family, we just were always singing or
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- Always playing the piano in church and growing up and that
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- Was just kind of my life, really. you know, i never really
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- Started out to do this. i wanted to teach school and i have
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- Always loved music. music has always been so special for me
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- Because i was kind of a shy kid. and so i found my voice through
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- Music. i'd hear a song and i'd think, ah, that's what i want to
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- Say but i'm too shy to say it. and when i was in high school,
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- Did some singing, college did some singing, but it was really
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- In college that i met bill and gloria gaither. and bill called
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- One day and said, hey i produce work at, you know, their studio
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- And we're looking for a backup singer, and would you be
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- Interested? well, let me pray about it. yes! [chuckles] and so
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- I started traveling with them and it was just, it was great!
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- They're still very dear friends. bill gaither: you know, somebody
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- Told me a long time ago, if you do your job and do it well,
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- You'll finally work yourself out of a job. and i take quite a bit
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- Of pride in that i guess, because i can remember sandi,
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- When she first came to us, she was doing studio work because
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- She's such a great singer and could sing high and low in any
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- Part. and she came out as our vocal backup group. can you
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- Believe that? i mean, sandi patty in your backup group? you
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- Know. but on the second half we would say, hey, sandi, come
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- Here, sing. so she happened, she had just recorded dottie rambo's
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- Song “we shall behold him”. she would sing it every night and
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- Totally knock it out of the ballpark. and i'll never forget
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- The day when i sat down with her and i said, sandi, i think the
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- Tail's wagging the dog here. if you'd like to go, we'd love to
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- Keep you, but if you'd like to go, please go, and go with our
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- Blessing. >>the one song that just always makes me giggle a
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- Little bit is “how majestic is your name”. because greg nelson
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- Was my producer at the time and i remember him coming to my
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- House in indiana and playing me a whole bunch of demos. and he
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- Played this song “how majestic is your name” that michael w.
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- Smith wrote. and i was talking to michael w. smith and i said
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- I'll never forget in my little living room in anderson, indiana
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- You played the cassette and it was michael playing “how
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- Majestic is your name”. and that was kind of a brand-new style at
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- The time. and greg said, you know, it's kind of new but i
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- Think this kid is gonna go somewhere. [laughter] [music]
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- ♪ oh, lord our lord
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- ♪how majestic is your name in all the earth ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord our lord
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- ♪how majestic is your name in all the earth ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we praise your name ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we magnify your name ♪
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- ♪ prince of peace mighty god ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord god almighty ♪
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- [music]
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- >>come on! you've got to sing it with me!
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- [music]
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- ♪ oh, lord our lord
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- ♪ how majestic is your name in all the earth ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord our lord
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- ♪ how majestic is your name in all the earth ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we praise your name ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we magnify your name ♪
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- ♪ prince of peace mighty god ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord god almighty almighty ♪
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- ♪ [oh, lord our lord
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- ♪ how majestic is your name in all the earth] ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord our lord
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- ♪ how majestic is your name in all the earth ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we praise your name ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we magnify your name ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we praise your name ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord we magnify our name ♪
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- ♪ prince of peace mighty god ♪
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- ♪ oh, lord god almighty ♪
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- [music] [applause]
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- [music]
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- Jaci velasquez: welcome back!
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- Sandi's manager, mike adkins, used to promote boxing on espn
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- When some folks came along and said, hey, we'd like you to
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- Promote some concerts for contemporary christian music.
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- Mike had never even heard of ccm, but he agreed, and
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- Ironically his first concert to promote was a lady. you guessed
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- It. it was sandi. fast forward to years later mike had a
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- Thriving artist management business and was maxed out on
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- His client roster. he had just come out of a staff meeting
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- Where he told his staff, i don't care who calls, do not bring a
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- New client to me. and then the phone rang and this voice on the
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- Other end said, mike, this is sandi. they hadn't talked in a
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- While, but after talking a few minutes mike forgot all about
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- His former resolve, and when sandi asked him if he would
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- Manage her, he said immediately, yes! when mike was asked what
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- Would you say is the magic of sandi patty? he said, mike
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- Adkins: yeah, that one's easy. i mean, you take this incredible
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- Vocalist with the biggest heart of anyone you would ever meet
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- And then you sprinkle that on to this athlete that is, ah, has a
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- Killer, i've always said a lot of times you try to get a crack
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- In the door for folks to walk through, and let's try this, and
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- For sandi, it's not peep inside, it's kick the door down and just
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- Right over the top. and she goes in and once she decides that
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- This is right and this is something that we want to do,
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- Then you know, it's 4th and goal in the 4th quarter of the super
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- Bowl. the amazing thing is that these people in here have come
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- Through life. no one asked us or blessed us to the point that
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- Just because we're an artist or managers or in the business that
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- Life doesn't exist. >>yeah. >>and we've all been through
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- Life. we're still going through life. evie tornquist karlsson:
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- Now i have a question for you. sandi patty: okay. >>how about
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- All the young women around this entire globe, not just america,
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- That have listened to you and, yes, i'm getting very emotional,
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- [chuckles] have listened to you through these years? and god's
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- Given you an ability to sell a song, and you know how i mean
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- That. when you share “we shall behold him” or any one of the
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- Songs you've done, and there have been so many, you come
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- Across with that you're able to deliver the message almost like,
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- Like you were talking it, but it's even better because you're
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- Singing it and it sounds so amazing. >>i was just telling
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- Someone today, and i learned this a lot from listening to
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- You, >>no! sandi patty: because you have to tell the story.
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- >>yeah, yeah. >>if the only thing that separates the music
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- Is the message, >>it is. >>and if you don't understand the
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- Message first, it's hard to communicate the message, but you
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- Have to communicate the message. and so the lyrics are so
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- Important. the spirit of the story. “we shall behold him” is
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- About seeing our lord and savior face to face. i don't have a
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- First-hand feeling what that's like, but i know it's gonna be
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- Awesome! and so that's the story! [music]
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- ♪ we shall be changed ♪
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- ♪ in a moment
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- ♪ and we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face to face
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- ♪ we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ yes, we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face to face
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- ♪ in all of his glory ♪
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- ♪ we shall behold him
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- ♪ oh, yes we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ face to face ♪
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- ♪ my savior and lord
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- ♪ we shall behold him ♪
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- ♪ our savior and lord
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- ♪ [savior and lord]
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- ♪ savior and lord ♪
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- [music] [applause]
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- [music]
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- Jaci velasquez: sandi patty is a
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- Survivor. she's been married to
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- Her husband, don peslis, for nearly 20 years with 8 beautiful
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- Children between them. twenty-five years ago she went
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- Through a very public divorce from her manager husband that
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- Shocked the ccm industry before marrying don. it was an
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- Extremely difficult period in her life. she remembers doing an
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- Interview during that time and the interviewer asked her, so
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- What do you think your kids are learning during this tough time?
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- She was a little flippant in her answer and replied, you know
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- What, honestly, i think all they're learning is that life is
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- Tough and you're going to make mistakes, but god is faithful,
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- And you know what, that is not so bad. at the height of her
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- Career, sandi was doing 200 concert dates a year. that's a
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- Long time to be on the road away from your family, but sandi was
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- Always grateful that she got to do something that she loved so
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- Much. the traveling was hard, being on the road and missing
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- Her kids was hard, not knowing what time zone you're in at
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- Times and being exhausted was hard, but it's the work that she
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- Clearly loved. sandi patty: well, it's definitely work, but
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- It's such a pleasure to go to work. ah, but we were serious.
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- We were very serious about it and we were serious before even
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- One note began, one lyric was sung, one rhythm section was
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- Laid down. we said god may this communicate to those who hear
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- That they are lovely and that you love them and that you have
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- Given your life for. that was, everything filtered through
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- That, everything. when we sat and listened to songs,
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- Everything filtered through that. i, you know, i grew up in
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- The church, but where it came from was my own relationship
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- With christ that has continued to grow over the years. and
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- There have been seasons where i have really messed up bad, but
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- It has always been my heart's desire to remind people that
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- Jesus loves them. somebody asked a great theologian once, what do
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- You consider the most profound truth in all of christendom? and
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- He thought for a moment and then he simply sang “yes jesus loves
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- Me, the bible tells me so”. i mean, it is as basic and as
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- Profound as that. and i think if i could say to anybody, i would
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- Say that life is tough, and we're not always gonna get it
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- Right. but god is so faithful. and he is there when life is
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- Good, and he is especially there when life is tough and he calls
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- Us to him, closer to him, all throughout the process. evie
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- Tornquist karlsson: preach it, sister! wonderful! [applause]
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- [music]
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- ♪ i've always heard there is a land ♪
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- ♪ beyond the mortal dreams of men ♪
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- ♪ where every tear will be left behind ♪
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- ♪ ah, but it must be in another time ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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- [music]
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- ♪ there'll be an everlasting light ♪
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- ♪ shining a purist holy white ♪
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- ♪ and every fear will be erased ♪
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- ♪ but it must be in another place ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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- ♪ so i'm waiting
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- ♪ for another time and another place ♪
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- ♪ where all my hopes and dreams ♪
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- ♪ will be captured with one look at jesus' face ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh my heart's burning ♪
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- ♪ my soul keeps yearning ♪
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- ♪ sometimes i can't hardly wait ♪
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- ♪ for that sweet, sweet someday ♪
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- ♪ when i'll be swept away ♪
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- ♪ another time and another place ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh oh, oh oh, ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, ♪
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- ♪ oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
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- [music]
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- Sandi patty: it is an odd thing, really, to have done
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- This long enough to hear stories of other singers who've come
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- Along and have said, you know, you are who i listen to; you are
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- Who i wanted to try, in my singing, to capture the emotion.
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- That is a little surreal to me, but then i also want to honor
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- The responsibility of that and make sure that the story that is
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- Always communicated is a story, first and foremost, about the
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- Goodness and faithfulness of god. second, that it resonates
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- And is played out in my own life. there's a line in “i've
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- Just seen jesus” that i sing with larnell, it says ‘all that
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- I've done before won't matter anymore'. and it doesn't mean
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- Just the tough stuff. evie tornquist karlsson: no. >>it
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- Means the good stuff, too. >>yes, it does. >>that's not
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- Gonna matter. >>no. >>'i've just seen jesus and i'll never be the
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- Same again'. >>oh, that's good. >>i, that is where i try to live
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- Every day is to be an extension of god's grace in his mercy.
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- First, to myself, but then be an extension of that to other
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- People. and i loved those lyrics 20 years ago, but i understand
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- Them now. >>oh, yeah. [music] jaci velasquez: thank you so
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- Much for joining us. it's so amazing how much god loves us.
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- And so comforting to know it's not based on our performance or
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- Anything we have done. it's all about the cross and what he has
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- Done for us. we hope you've been uplifted and inspired in your
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- Faith by hearing about sandi's phenomenal journey. please join
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- Us next time for more heartfelt stories about your favorite,
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- Legendary ccm artists. god bless you and we'll see you soon!
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- [music]
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- ♪ it was his voice she first heard ♪
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- ♪ those kind, gentle words ♪
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- ♪ asking what was her reason for tears ♪
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- ♪ and i sobbed in despair ♪
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- ♪ my lord is not there ♪
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- ♪ he said, child, it is i i am here ♪
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus
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- ♪ i tell you he's alive ♪
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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- ♪ our precious lord alive ♪
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- ♪ and i knew yes, i knew ♪
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- ♪ he really he saw me, too ♪
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- ♪ he really saw me, too ♪
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- ♪ it was
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- ♪ it was as if till now ♪
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- ♪ i'd never lived
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- ♪ all that i'd done before ♪
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- ♪ won't matter anymore ♪
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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- ♪ and i've just seen jesus ♪
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- ♪ and all i've ever done before ♪
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- ♪ won't matter anymore ♪
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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- ♪ and i'll never be the same again ♪
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- ♪ i've just seen jesus ♪
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- [music] [applause]
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