Glenn Kaiser

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Glenn Kaiser at the Cornerstone Festival (2004)

Glenn Kaiser (* 21st January 1953 in Beaver Dam , Wisconsin ) is an American Christian Blues - R & B - and blues rock - guitarist , singer-songwriter and pastor . Kaiser became known with the Resurrection Band and founded the Glenn Kaiser Band in 1999 . In addition to electric and acoustic guitar, he plays lap steel guitar and harmonica .

life and career

Glenn Kaiser was born the youngest of three children. His parents separated when he was nine years old. At the age of twelve he became active in the Milwaukee music scene . Kaiser belonged to a total of twelve different groups until he was nineteen years old; among them were two bands led by him.

Glenn Kaiser grew up a Lutheran experimenting with drugs before joining the revival movement around his eighteenth birthday . “ Nothing else gave me so much happiness or sense of purpose until I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart and become absolute Lord of my life. ”( Glenn Kaiser , German:“ Nothing gave me so much joy and determination as my request to Jesus Christ to redeem me and be my Lord ”)

Kaiser joined the Jesus People in Milwaukee, later in Jesus People USA renamed. In their USA Traveling Team he met his future wife Wendi Herrin. Her brother, John Herrin Jr., and Glenn Kaiser joined the Jesus People pastoral team before they were 25 years old. The Jesus People USA are the organizers of the Cornerstone Festival , at which Glenn Kaiser performed repeatedly with various groups.

Glenn Kaiser as lead singer of the Resurrection Band

Glenn Kaiser's most successful and best-known group is the Resurrection Band, founded in 1971, which originally traveled through the United States under the name Charity as part of the USA Traveling Team of the Jesus People. In the spring of 1972 the group renamed itself the Resurrection Band and shortly thereafter relocated its activities to Chicago. Kaiser married Wendi Herrin in June 1972, who was also a member of the Resurrection Band . Wendi and Glenn Kaiser have four children together.

In 1994, Glenn Kaiser published the book The Responsibility of the Christian Musician .

The Resurrection Band disbanded in 2000 after nearly thirty years. Shortly before, Kaiser founded the Glenn Kaiser Band as a blues-rock trio in 1999 together with Roy Montroy and Ed Bialach . Performances have taken the group to Europe several times, including Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands in 2012. In 2008 the former Resurrection Band performed again for the 25th anniversary of the Cornerstone Festival.

Glenn Kaiser plays the guitar models Fender Stratocaster , Epiphone Sheraton and Gibson Les Paul .

Discography (selection)

Resurrection band

Glenn Kaiser Band

  • 2000: Winter Sun
  • 2001: Carolina Moon
  • 2003: Blacktop
  • 2005: GKB Live
  • 2008: Octane

Solo recordings and publications in other line-ups

  • 1990: Trimmed and Burnin ' (as Kaiser / Mansfield)
  • 1993: Slow Burn (as Kaiser / Mansfield)
  • 1993: All My Days
  • 1994: Spontaneous Combustion
  • 1995: Into the Night (as Kaiser / Mansfield / Howard)
  • 1997: Throw Down Your Crowns (1997)
  • 1998: You Made The Difference in Me
  • 1999: Time Will Tell
  • 1999: Blues Heaven
  • 2002: Ripley County Blues
  • 2002: No Greater Love (as "Glenn Kaiser and Friends")
  • 2002: Trimmed and Burnin '& Slow Burn (as Kaiser / Mansfield)
  • 2006: Bound For Glory
  • 2006: Blues Heaven II
  • 2011: Cardboard Box
  • 2016: Long Way From My Home

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Gerber, Lothar Mack: He is the real "Kaiser". February 24, 2006, accessed August 19, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b c Mark Allan Powell: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music . Hendrickson Publishers, August 2002, ISBN 1-56563-679-1 , pp. 467-469.
  3. ^ Glenn Kaiser: The Responsibility of the Christian Musician . Cornerstone Press, Chicago 1994, ISBN 0-940895-22-6 .
  4. ↑ 'Glenn Kaiser Band' European Tour March 2012. The Metal Resource / Grrr Records, January 6, 2012, accessed on August 19, 2014 (English).
  5. ↑ Review: HM Magazine ( Memento from July 13, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Brian Vincent McGovern: Album Reviews: GLENN KAISER You Made the Difference in Me . In: HM Magazine . No. 72, July-August 1998, ISSN  1066-6923 .
  6. ↑ Review: HM Magazine ( Memento from July 17, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Doug Van Pelt: Album Reviews: Glenn Kaiser time will tell . In: HM Magazine . No. 78, July-August 1999, ISSN  1066-6923 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Glenn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaver Dam