On Sept. 27, 2022, Grammy and Dove Award-winning Christian worship music collective Maverick City Music put a “pause” on its relationship with member Dante Bowe due to “behavior” issues. That relationship has now resumed.
This past Saturday (May 17), ChurchLeaders attended the Lauren Daigle and Maverick City Music concert in Cincinnati. As Maverick City Music took the stage, Bowe was part of the collective once again and led nearly 6,000 fans in worship.
The 32-year-old Bowe, who is a both a Grammy and Dove Award-winning singer himself as a solo artist, became controversial in 2022 after fans questioned some of the material he was sharing on social media. One post was a nude video Bowe claims he “accidentally” uploaded to Instagram.
“It wasn’t salacious,” he told Pastor Jamal Bryant during an interview last October. “But it was a nude photo.”
While speaking with Bryant, Bowe dismissed rumors that he was drunk when he posted the photo. Bowe explained that he “always takes photos of [his] body” when he gets out of the shower to track his fitness progress.
Bowe said he wasn’t the only artist in Maverick City Music engaging in questionable activity and claimed that others were “doing all kinds of bad stuff.” But, he continued, “I was just the one that was, like, used as the poster child.” Bowe also said he believed the collective wanted to get rid of him because he was focusing more on his solo career.
Last December, Maverick City Music founders Norman Gyamfi and Jonathan Jay addressed why they “paused” their relationship with Bowe during a two-hour conversation with popular Christian YouTuber Ruslan.
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“Dante has addressed this himself, so there is no conjecture here. He’s admitted to the inappropriate photo on multiple platforms,” Gyamfi said. “So we didn’t want to be the people to put that out because, as we stated over and over, we saw him as family, right?”
Jay confirmed that Bowe’s image was “full frontal” nudity. Gyamfi said he immediately started receiving messages from mothers telling him that their 8-year-old daughters had seen it.
