Dave Huff had to feel proud during the 1984 Grammy Awards show. He was the drummer in a Christian rock group called White Heart that was nominated for an award. Never mind the fact that the group didn’t win, or that the self-titled debut album for which it was nominated only sold 60,000 copies. (The fact is, White Heart considers that a pretty high sales figure by a debut group in Christian music.) Who’d have thought that an unknown group could have gotten even a Grammy nomination, much less an award? The band had never even toured as a group until the release of the album. In essence, the nomination alone (in the category of Best Vocal Performance by a New Vocal Duo or Group in Gospel Music) had brought the band much of what it had wanted from the outset—respect—and not just from the Christian radio market (in which […]

February 1986 Issue