Since blasting his way onto the Christian music scene with his band DC Talk in 1987, Toby McKeehan, best known by his stage name TobyMac, has been a staple and and inspiration among generations of Christian music listeners and aspiring artists.
Having released 10 solo albums following his band’s indefinite hiatus 25 years ago, TobyMac has collected multiple Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Dove Awards, and K-LOVE Fan Awards
TobyMac Performs ‘Nothin’ Sweeter’ at K-LOVE Fan Awards
At this year’s K-LOVE Fan Awards, TobyMac opened the show with a performance of his song “Nothin’ Sweeter” with Jon Reddick. This year TobyMac was nominated for Artist of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year for “Nothin’ Sweeter.”
During a media press conference that immediately followed his performance, TobyMac shared that he is still “powering through some grief” from the loss of his son Truett in 2019, his sister in 2020, and his best friend and Diverse City band member Gabe Patillo in 2024.
“But God is teaching me, more than anything, that moment by moment, no matter what,” each moment is divinely appointed from him. “I tend to look ahead,” he said after ChurchLeaders asked him to share what what God has been recently teaching him. “I know even on, like, writing songs and stuff I’m looking to the next thing. I just finished a record, I just put it out, [and] I’m already trying to write new ones so, like, it’s just the way I’m wired.”
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The “Faithfully” singer explained, “I think God is really bearing down on me to realize that every appointment throughout my day is him putting this person in front of me, or him giving me this moment of time for peace, or him speaking to me through someone.” TobyMac said, “So trying to just stay in that literal moment, and trying to serve God, not Toby.”
“if I dare call him Lord, that makes me servant, and a servant waits on the request of his Lord, and that’s how I want to live,” TobyMac concluded.
