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MARGARET BECKER

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Margaret Becker (born July 17 1959) is an American Christian rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has had fourteen #1 Christian radio hits, won three Dove Awards, and been nominated for four Grammy Awards.

Biography
Becker was raised in Bayshore, New York, and began playing in coffeehouses while teaching music and taking opera lessons. Having graduated from James Madison University with a degree in communication, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1985, and signed to Sparrow Records as a songwriter; soon after she toured with Rick Cua as a backup singer and sang on Steve Camp's 1986 album ''One on One (Steve Camp album)|One on One''. The next year she landed a recording contract|contract as a solo artist, and released her debut album, ''Never for Nothing''. The single "Fight for God" was her first hit, and her second LP, ''The Reckoning'', followed with two more hits, "Light in the Darkness" and "Find Me".

Becker began working with producer Charlie Peacock starting with 1990's ''Immigrant's Daughter'', and a string of successful albums followed, including a Spanish language LP. She won two Dove Awards in 1992, for Rock Album (''Simple House'') and Rock Song ("Simple House"). However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Becker occasionally encountered controversy in the world of Contemporary Christian music because she ... read all