Luke Munns
| Luke Munns | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Luke Andrew Munns |
| Born | September 20, 1980 |
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Rock |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, songwriter, performer |
| Instruments | Drums, vocals, acoustic guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Hillsong Music, LUKAS |
| Associated acts | LUKAS, Able, Hillsong, Hillsong United (band), C3 Church Sydney, Worship Central |
| Website | www |
Luke Andrew Munns (born 20 September 1980) in the Northern Beaches of Sydney is a musician, record producer and songwriter, known as the key worship drummer of Sydney based worship band Hillsong United, the worship band of Hillsong Church's youth group. Luke was one of original members of Hillsong United but surrendered his position in 2005 to pioneer the rock/indie/folk band Lukas as lead singer/songwriter. He is a member of Hillsong Church, Sydney and is a strong Christian believer. He is the oldest of four brothers. Munns was also the drummer for many Hillsong Church albums, and the band Able, which was composed of Marty Sampson, Michael Guy Chislett and Joel Houston, which won the Channel V Leg Up competition in 2001.
On 12th March 2012, Luke married his longtime sweetheart Christina Wardle, and they have a daughter Olivia Lily Munns (Born September, 2013).
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Biography
Early life
Munns began playing piano, and wrote his first song at the young age of three years, and focused his efforts to playing drums and guitar from the age of seven.[1]
Able
Munns joined the Hillsong United band at age 13. At the same time as this, Munns met with fellow Hillsong United members bass player Joel Houston and guitarist and vocalist Marty Sampson and younger member Michael Guy Chislett. The band went through a name change from Consecrated to Able and in 2001, the band was selected by Channel V as its Leg Up competition winners. With the winnings from this competition, Able put together The Able EP at a recording studio in Byron Bay, but shortly after releasing the EP, the band broke up and instead poured their efforts into Hillsong United.
Hillsong United
Munns' first debut with the Hillsong United as their live recording drummer was in 1999. As part of Hillsong United music team, Munns has toured in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has also contributed to the main Hillsong album recordings as well, which are led by worship pastor Darlene Zschech. Songs he has written are sung in churches worldwide and have been translated into 32 languages, including Korean and German. His drumming has been featured on Hillsong albums that have quickly risen on both the Australian and American Christian music charts.[1] In 2002 Munns designed the official UNITED logo which is still currently in use today and also designed the album artwork for Best Friend (2000), To the Ends of the Earth (2002) and More Than Life (2004).
LUKAS
In 2004 Luke pioneered the new indie/folk band LUKAS and recorded 6 songs in his home studio. Since then the LUKAS Demo EP has had over 400,000 downloads worldwide. He then toured around Australia on a support solo tour with Australian/NZ folk artist Brooke Fraser and then went back into the studio to record the You & Me EP with producer Brendan Anthony (INXS, Midnight Oil, Jimmy Barnes, Brianna Carpenter (Australian Idol) in Studios 301, Sydney.
Luke returned to his worship roots in 2006 and LUKAS transitioned into a worship movement, releasing their new singles 'Shine Your Glory' and 'Lost At Sea'.
The single's Abandoned featuring Australian electronic music producer and DJ Northie (2013), For God So Loved (2014), Heaven On The Earth (2014), all debuted at number one on iTunes Inspirational Charts, Australia, and Beauty For Ashes reached number five.[2]
Darlene Zschech commissioned Luke to write, record and release For God So Loved (2014) for Easter for their church HopeUC, based on the Central Coast, Australia.
LUKAS have toured in New Zealand, USA and Singapore, mainly holding worship encounter nights and church team training sessions, and have main staged Blackstump Festival, Big Exo Day, Parachute Festival and Hillsong Conference. They also performed Feels Like Home on MTV for the NOKIA Be Heard competition and placed 2nd out of all unsigned bands in Australia.[3]
Marking their 10th year anniversary, LUKAS released a limited addition hard copy CD album of only 500 copies.[4]
Many past LUKAS members have gone on to be part of the main Hillsong Worship band and Hillsong United (band) teams including Paul Mabury (Drums), Harrison Wood (drums), Simon Kobler (drums) and Matt Hann (bass guitar).
January 24th 2015, LUKAS recorded a live worship session at The Grove Studios, set for release late 2015, filmed and directed by cinematographer Paul Moss (Director of Photography for Masterchef, The Bachelor, Biggest Loser, Shark Tank).
Luke has been signed to Hillsong/Shout Publishing from 1998 until present.[5]
The LUKAS YouTube Channel has had over 216,000 views.[6]
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Lukas - 2006 Lineup
Discography
Hillsong Albums on which Munns has performed:
- By Your Side (1999)
- Everyday (1999)
- For This Cause (2000)
- Best Friend (2000)
- You Are My World (2001)
- King of Majesty (2001)
- Blessed (2002)
- To the Ends of the Earth (2002)
- Hope (2003)
- More Than Life (2004)
- Hillsong/Delirious? UP: Unified Praise (2004)
- For All You've Done (2004)
- Look to You (2005)
Recent appearances:
- Lukas - You & Me EP (2007)
- Mia Fieldes - There's A Reason (2007)
- Mia Fieldes - Minus The Walls (2008)
- GMF - Ride of Life (2008)
- Awakening '09 Conference intro music (2009)
- Hillsong - Colour Your World Women's Conference '09 promotional music (2009)
- Lukas - Shine Your Glory Single (2009)
- Everywoman Promo - Jack Diaz (2009)
- C3 - Send Down Your Love (2010)
- Presence Conference - Promo (2010)
- Hillsong - A Beautiful Exchange (2010)
- RICE Revolution Conference (2010)
- C3 - Undivided (2010)
- Loveis Album (2010)
- Abandoned Single Ft. Northie (2013)
References
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- ↑ http://thelukasband.com/music
- ↑ http://thelukasband.com/about
- ↑ http://lukasband.bigcartel.com/product/lukas-10-year-anniversary-limited-edition-sampler
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/luke-munns-mn0000642774/credits
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/thelukasband
