Award-winning Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman debuted his new song, “Forever the Love of My Life,” for attendees of a special event at Colorado Christian University (CCU) in Lakewood, Colorado, on Friday, Feb. 7.
Chapman was the featured guest in the second event in the newly launched President’s Speaker Series. He wrote his new song as a birthday gift for his wife, Mary Beth, and said it was his first time performing it publicly.
“It just came out,” Chapman told the audience at the McDonald Performance Hall Friday evening. “I wrote this song for my wife, for her birthday.”
Over 500 people came to see Chapman perform and to listen to a moderated conversation with Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman and CCU President Eric Hogue and First Lady Tammy Hogue.
Steven Curtis and Mary Beth Chapman at CCU
Steven Curtis Chapman is one of the most decorated artists in Christian music. He is the winner of five Grammys, 60 Dove Awards, and one American Music Award. He has had 50 No. 1 hits and has sold 16 million albums, with 10 of them being RIAA-certified Gold or Platinum.
Last July, Chapman was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Chapman told CCU students and staff that his induction into the Grand Ole Opry was particularly meaningful to him because he performed there in his youth, and his father had given up a dream of being a Grand Ole Opry singer.
The event with the Chapmans follows CCU’s inaugural event in its President’s Speaker Series, which was held on Friday, Nov. 15, and featured former Vice President Mike Pence and former Second Lady Karen Pence.
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During Chapman’s performance Friday, he played a number of his top hits, including the love song he wrote for Mary Beth five years into their marriage, titled, “I Will Be Here.”
