

Voting for the winners will run from Aug. This year’s nominees were chosen from more than 2,000 submitted entries. Together we lift one voice – the sound of heaven.” Although our musical styles may be different, our mission is the same. Today we announced this year’s theme, Sound of Heaven.

“For the past few years, we’ve chosen a theme for each show that represents our community and why we celebrate. “Congratulations to this year’s impressive list of Dove Awards nominees,” GMA president Jackie Patillo said in a statement. There are just five nominees in each of the other categories. Top nominees include songwriter and producer Jeff Pardo with nine nods Matthew West and Maverick City Music with seven nods each Anne Wilson, Ben Glover, for KING + COUNTRY, Jeff Sojka, Jonathan Smith and Phil Wickham with six nods each and Brandon Lake, Winans, Chandler Moore, Chris Brown (not the R&B star), Jonathan Jay and Steven Furtick with five nods each.īrown and Furtick collaborated on two songs that are in the running for song of the year: “Jireh” and “Rattle!” Brown and Furtick were among the writers of last year’s winner in this category, “The Blessing.” Eleven songs are vying for song of the year. Winans is vying to become just the second Black solo artist - and the first Black female artist - to win in the category. He has yet to publicly comment on Cataphant’s allegations.For KING + COUNTRY is vying to become the first act to win artist of the year three years running. Who did I find out all these things from? Everyone.Īt the time of publication, Gawvi had deleted all posts on his Instagram page, including the statement announcing his divorce. I have known about his actions for at least a year, maybe more. It wasn’t a knee-jerk thoughtless reaction. I want to clarify a couple things about why I spoke out about Gawvi. She concluded her string of tweets by writing, “I did this because I’m standing up for my friend who was incorrectly represented in that lying a– statement that painted a false picture of why Gawvi LEFT his wife for someone else. When someone refuses accountability and is a text book narcissist, there is no ‘addressing in privately.'” “I want to defend all my friends because I KNOW they tried and tried. “Secondly, EVERYONE confronted him,” she continued. Who did I find out all these things from? Everyone. “I have known about his actions for at least a year, maybe more. “It wasn’t a knee-jerk thoughtless reaction,” she wrote of her original tweet. The next day, Cataphant further clarified the situation surrounding Gawvi’s divorce and why she chose to speak out after he shared his statement. “For my next project I’m going to make a collage of all the unasked for di– pics he sent to women while he was still married.” “ Years ago I made album artwork for she tweeted on Saturday. And if you know me, you know I hate divorce and I’m not here to promote it.”įollowing his announcement, visual artist and designer Cataphant took to Twitter to defend her friend Azucena. “There is no scandal to gossip about, just 2 adults that made decisions that lead to this point.

“We did everything we could to make it work for years, but after seeking the support of friends, family and counseling, I came to an extremely hard decision to move forward in a direction that I felt would be healthiest,” he wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post that was shared by The Crew. A post shared by Reach Records the weekend, Gawvi revealed that his marriage to wife Brianna Azucena ended in 2020.
