Sorry, friends, the fan boy in me has to gush! Check this out!!!! p.s. Someone says “Come here to Nashville!” Believe me, if I could, I would! I am gonna catch Mandisa in concert, mark my words. Someday, friends, someday.

Neither “Weird Al” Yankovic nor Lady Gaga are Christian, so I doubt many of my regular readers would’ve expected to see this on GannsDeen.com, but it would be a crime if I didn’t share these three minutes of brilliance with you. Presenting Perform This Way, Yankovic’s send-off to Gaga’s Born This Way. I couldn’t stop...

(This blog entry falls under my standard informal one-personal-blog-entry-per-month policy.) When I graduated from college, I created a simple three-word motto that captured what I believed was my purpose in life. Erudio et iuvo. Educate and entertain. Thirteen years later, I realize God continues to offer me opportunities to live it out, but I have diluted it for lack of direction. I think it’s time to really focus on that and...

Contemporary Christian female solo artist Mandisa has released a third album, What If We Were Real, which has now found its way onto Philippine shores, courtesy of House of Praise, at Php495. What If We Were Real features the carrier single, Stronger, which is Mandisa’s first-ever solo #1 hit, peaking at #1 on Radio and Records’ MediaBase chart for three weeks running; to date, Stronger has run at #2 on Billboard’s Hot...

Contemporary Christian singer Mandisa makes it five weeks in a row on my Christian Top 10 with Good Morning, while two new debuts make the chart this week: Dara MacLean at #5 with Suitcases and Byron Chambers at #10 with Everything Works Together. Over on the secular chart, Jessie J’s Price Tag makes it three weeks in a row as K-Pop boy band SHINee debuts at #10 with their Japanese cover of their Korean original, Replay. This...

While I work for a church in Greenhills for a living, I am Divo-ted to making music. I am a Christian songwriter. I wrote my first song when I was 12 years old, penning a cheesy little ditty called Fly Through Love, brought about by a prepubescent fascination with Deborah “Debbie” Gibson. Since then, I’ve written and arranged many songs, most of which were for God, but inspired by a wide range of secular artists, from...