lindagrayMUSIC
THE STORM & RED SEA
We picked Matt's place, Birds of the Air Studio Los Angeles to do our STORM photo session
Want to see 'the boys'?
I'm not sure why we should show you a picture of his dogs instead of his beautiful wife, but I don't have a picture of Beth. . . so . . . . .
Speaks for itself.
His is the old story of 'boy sits in cowboy-star grampa's studio looking at all those buttons'. It was love at first sight.
Raised with a music industry legacy . . . in the music industry town of Los Angeles, Matt grew up on sound, simultaneously learning engineering, mixing and playing the guitar at an early age.
His natural talent for all of these skills gave him access to years of work in the major studio scene of Los Angeles, some of his credits involving engineering, mixing, producing and instrumentation as well as lots of successful work in commercials. He worked with recording greats such as Santana, Neil Diamond, Player and the ‘Hit Man’ David Foster, as well as Japanese hit-maker Ami Ozaki.
His conversion 10 years ago gave him a heart for the Church and a love for the music of the Lord.
Thank you, Matt, for joining me on the STORM collection.
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The Story of RED SEA
The
Charter:
Two walls of living water
standing in absolute obedience to God
Standing apart
and forming one unified purpose
that
many may pass safely
between us
The Story of RED SEA:
It's amazing how this happened. . . how Matt and I became RED SEA.
My husband Frosty, producer of all my work, volunteered to help on the sound board at church. Not a simple one, but a Yamaha C7ML digital board that required some training. His trainer? Matt Hyde. During one of their many conversations, Frosty heard a track Matt had been putting together and commented, “I wish you could do that for one of Linda’s songs.” His response? “Bring me a file”
The result of his work, his professionalism, natural talent, his godliness, and his response to my songs [“Bring me another”] impressed us so strongly, I just started handing off my newest song to him. From that point on, every couple of weeks a surprisingly sophisticated well-crafted arrangement appeared as an MP3 on my e-mail.
A collection was emerging and Frosty’s mind automatically gravitated toward releasing a CD of our work. We spoke to Matt right away about naming him as one of the artists on the work with me. He refused, saying he hadn’t heard anything from God about that and he was a ‘behind the scenes’ guy.
A month went by and I got word from God that he had named us. As a duo, we had a name. He told me the name. I said, thank you my dear God and friend. I believe you. I love the name and the idea, but if I tell Frosty and Matt this, I don’t think they will be convinced, especially after that conversation with Matt a month ago.
I asked God if I could do an Isaiah 7 challenge and he agreed. The deal: Either Frosty or Matt had to present the name to me before the album was done, or I would just go on record as the artist and be disappointed. Disappointed mostly because at that point, I’d have to assume the whole idea was mine i.e. I hadn’t heard the Voice I thought I recognized by now.
I put a calendar on my bathroom mirror and started checking off the days.
Twenty-one days later, Frosty handed me a paper with these two words written on it: RED SEA.
What could Matt say? except. . .”I like it”.
Exodus 14:21-22 ESV
V21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
V22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
