{"id":40934,"date":"2013-11-07T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_meet_tobymac_one_of_christian_musics_biggest_stars\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:00:07","slug":"washington_post_meet_tobymac_one_of_christian_musics_biggest_stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40934","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Meet TobyMac, one of Christian music&#39;s biggest stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, McKeehan stands as arguably the biggest star in Christian pop music. In the \u201990s, his groundbreaking group, dc Talk, made faith-based rap-rock that was brash enough to crack MTV, but wholesome enough to get them invited to Billy Graham\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, McKeehan\u2019s 10th solo album as TobyMac, \u201cEye On It,\u201d\u009d debuted at No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s album chart \u201d\u201d the first contemporary Christian music album to achieve that feat since 1997. Last month, McKeehan snagged four trophies at the Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, including artist of the year. After the show, Christian rap star Lecrae gushed to reporters, \u201cTobyMac is a legend.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But in late September, nobody on M Street recognizes McKeehan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/meet-tobymac-one-of-christian-musics-biggest-stars\/2013\/10\/31\/ab620922-40ab-11e3-9c8b-e8deeb3c755b_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, McKeehan stands as arguably the biggest star in Christian pop music. In the \u201990s, his groundbreaking group, dc Talk, made faith-based rap-rock that was brash enough to crack MTV, but wholesome enough to get them invited to Billy Graham\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40934\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,132,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-music","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}