Christian Artist Crowder Says People Identify with Drake & Beyonce More Because Outsiders Say Things Better Than 'The Church Does' [INTERVIEW]

Popular folk-tronica worship artist David Crowder has had a successful career so far, bridging the generational gap in worship music and appealing to all people. In a recent interview with BREATHEcast he opened up about all music and the power it has to influence people.

Crowder just celebrated his first career solo No. 1 with the song "Come As You Are" and he right off the bat shared with BC his love for all types of music. "I love music and so most people that are making it I am a fan of so it's a privilege to get to do such a thing," he said.

Along with a booming solo career, Crowder is apart of the Passion CD projects and says because of his close relationships with everyone involved they have a blast together when creating music.

"I've known so many of them folks for most of the years I've been doing this so every time we are together it's got a real sense of family and knowing one another and [We] are able to cheer each other on in a special way," he shared, "Being that much of our music is so different from one another I'm always anxious to see what kind of songs are being cooked up and watch them go down and see what hits and what's going to be part of what the church is going to sing for a while."

"It feels like family, a bunch of friends getting together making music like a bunch of college students. I don't know how to have any more fun than that," he continued.

Crowder then went on to talk about how music influences everyone whether we know it or not. During his Neon Steeple Tour he and his band take the audience on a brief musical journey in which he breaks and plays popular mainstream songs.

"Me as a fan of music, I love to see collaborative moments. The Grammys, this past year, half of what's fun about watching those things is not necessarily who's gonna win, but seeing what collaborations, like who's gonna be on stage together," he said, "It's a blast to see artist squished together in the same place, what it sounds like, looks like, and how it comes across."

Crowder maintains that although he is a public figure in the Christian community people do not really know him entirely. "What is known of me from a public sense is just a real tiny sliver of who David Crowder is. The tour that we're on right night we play all of 30 minutes, that's what everybody knows as David Crowder, that 30 minutes but there's a whole lot of life that happens that's the same as everybody else," he admitted.

"Life for me is exactly what happens for everybody else. You're struggling trynna [sic] get through this thing, trynna follow this person Jesus, messing up constantly, failing constantly, life's throwing all kind of things at you and trying to figure out how to stay above water during all of it," he went on to say, "Music for me is an expresser of that journey, of that struggle, of the community that's around me that helps me follow the person Jesus and get through life here on planet earth."

Many believers often confuse anointing with passion and Crowder says most of these secular mainstream artists are so relatable simply because they are being real.

"You can hear Beyoncé sing two notes and all of sudden you are moved as a human and you don't know anything about her life, and you know that she's a super star but then something is in her voice that's real expresses what's real in you," he stated, "So I think the more you can get your authentic self, whether it be the way you write or hauling a porch around with you. The more of yourself you can get in front of people the distance between the platform and the people is lessoned."