Newsboys’ new lead singer, Adam Agee, has been re-recording vocals of the band’s songs that originally featured Michael Tait.
Agee stepped into the role of Newsboys‘ frontman after Tait unexpectedly informed the band last month that he was leaving the band, four days before a new tour.
Agee made a name for himself in the Christian music industry when his band Stellar Kart released its first album in 2005 and went on to win a Dove Award in 2007 for the song “Me and Jesus.”
In a recent interview with Eyewitness News’ Aaron Perlman, Agee shared that he has been working on re-recording vocals for songs the band has recently released, as well songs for the Newsboys’ follow-up album to “Worldwide Revival Nights.”
Agee joined the Newsboys as a guitarist and background vocalist in 2023 but told Perlman that he has known the members of the band for 20 years.
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“Tait kind of surprised us with some news about a month ago, and we had the beginning of our tour in about four days,” Agee said. “And so we kind of rallied together and tried to figure out what we’re going to do moving forward, and we put together a show.” Agee shared that the crowd “really rallied around” the band at the first show of the already-planned tour.
“It was just an amazing night,” he said. “There were 2,000 people in this arena, and it felt like 10,000 people singing along with all the songs. And it was, it was pretty special.”
Sharing what it felt like singing for a band he grew up listening to, Agee said, “I mean, not gonna lie, for me to be able to front the band that I had their posters on our wall when I was a kid—it’s pretty cool.”
Agee spoke to a recent video he and the Newsboys shared on Instagram that showed him re-recording the vocals of their hit single “How Many Times.”
“That was one of the things that we’ve been kind of scrambling to try to figure out and get done,” Agee explained. “That’s actually a song that was one of the first songs I wrote for this Newsboys project a couple years ago, and finally it’s getting released.” Agee said that he sang the background vocals on the song, but Tait sang the lead. “So we popped back into the studio and got that done real quick,” Agee said.
