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Short Name: Ken Medema
Full Name: Medema, Ken, 1943-
Birth Year: 1943

Ken Medema (b. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1943) is a song writer, composer, recording artist, and story-teller through music. Blind from birth, Ken began playing the piano at age five and studied classical music by reading Braille. He graduated from Grand Rapids Christian High School and studied music therapy at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. As a music therapist in both Indiana and New Jersey, he began writing songs for hurting teenagers, an experience that helped to launch a career of writing songs on Christian life that has taken him to venues large and small all over North America and beyond. He responds to what he hears and sees in his heart at particular events, often improvising songs on the spot, offering compassion, honesty and desire for integrity in both worship and life. In 1985 he began Brier Patch Music, which continues to publish his music and recordings, including 26 CDs.

Bert Polman

Wikipedia Biography

Kenneth Peter Medema (born December 7, 1943) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who has been performing in the United States, Canada, and Europe for more than forty years. Some of his best known songs began as live improvisations. Medema was born almost blind; his eyes only let him tell light from shadow and see outlines of major objects. He began playing the piano when he was five years old, and three years later began taking lessons in classical music through braille music, playing by ear and improvising in different styles.

Texts by Ken Medema (20)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
We pray for peace, for peace among the nationsKen Medema, b. 1943 (Author)2
Use these gifts to lift the lowlyKen Medema (Author)2
Teach me to stop and listenKen Medema (Author)English2
Someone is waiting right outside your doorKen Medema (Author)English2
Out of the babble that surrounds usKen Medema (Author (st. 1))4
Out of need and out of customKen Medema (Author)English7
Lord, listen to your children prayingKen Medema (Author)English32
Let us see the tongues of fireKen Medema (Author)2
Let truth and mercy find here Ken Medema (Author)2
In unity we lift our songKen Medema (Author)English5
I saw a tree by the riversideKen Medema (Author)2
I am the vine, you are the branches, Those who remain in meKen Medema (Author)2
Good morning, God, the night is goneKen Medema (Author)English2
God, we give to you our offeringsKen Medema (Author)2
God, I am beaten, battered and bruisedKen Medema (Author)2
Giving to you gratefullyKen Medema (Author (sts.))2
Fools don't get itKen Medema (Author)3
Every day is a victoryKen Medema (Author)English2
Come, let us reason together, That's what God saysKen Medema, b. 1943 (Author)9
All my life I've sung a jealous songKen Medema (Author)3

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