Chris Quilala
American Christian musician

Chris Quilala

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American Christian musician
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22 November 1982(Redding, Shasta County, California, USA)
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Introduction

Chris Quilala is an American Christian musician and worship leader with the Jesus Culture band. He primarily plays Christian pop and contemporary worship music.

Personal life

Quilala met his future wife, Alyssa, when she was seventeen and he was twenty-five while they were in a church in Pasadena. They have five children together: Ella, Aria, Jethro (d. 2014), Liv and Maddex.After Chris and Alyssa's son Jethro died in December 2014, they wrote the song Miracles, which appeared on Jesus Culture's 2016 album Let It Echo.The Quilala family resides in Sacramento, California.

Music career

He has been part of the Jesus Culture movement, since he was fourteen years old in 1996.He has been featured on many Jesus Culture albums, including Everything (2006), We Cry Out (2007), Your Love Never Fails (2008), Consumed (2009), Come Away (2010), Awakening: Live from Chicago (2011), Live From New York (with Martin Smith) (2012), Unstoppable Love (2014), and Let It Echo (2016).Quilala's debut solo album, Split the Sky, was released on November 11, 2016Recently, Quilala co-wrote the song 'Your Love Awakens Me' with Phil Wickham. It appears on Wickham's Living Hope album (2019).

Along with being a guitarist, Chris is also a drummer.He started his musical career playing drums for Bethel Music.He was the drummer for the albums For the Sake of the World (2012) and Be Lifted High (2011) as well as Brian & Jenn Johnson's albums, We Believe (2006) and Where You Go I Go (2008). He also featured on Bethel's debut album Here Is Love (2010) performing the song "King of Wonders".

Discography

Albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
USChrist.
Split the Sky
  • Debut album
  • Released: November 11, 2016
  • Label: Jesus Culture/Sparrow Records
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
8

Singles

As lead artist

Single Year Peak
positions
Album
US Christ.
Christ. Digital
"Because of Your Love" 2016 Split the Sky
"Won My Heart"
"After My Heart"
"You Cannot Be Stopped" 2019 35 20 non-album single
"Nothing But Good" TBD

As a featured artist

Single Year Peak
positions
Album
US Christ.
Christ. Airplay
Christ. Digital
Christ. Stream
"Fierce" 2016 14 15 16 22 Let It Echo
"Miracles" 50

Other charted songs

Single Year Peak
positions
Album
US Christ.
"Halls of Heaven" 2017 47 Love Has a Name