For King & Country

Career Highlights -For King & Country

Some of for KING & COUNTRY’s current hits include ‘joy.’, ‘Burn the Ships’ and a remix of their song ‘God Only Knows’ with Dolly Parton. They had initially reached out to Dolly after seeing her Netflix movie ‘Dumplin’ because they loved her work so much. Dolly quickly accepted the offer to work with the brothers when ‘God Only Knows’ was sent to her. The timing was perfect as she had recently told her manager that she wanted to work on more faith-based projects and also considers herself to be a Christian musician.

Dolly felt like it was a blessing because she said that after listening to the song, that it “touched her so deep”, and continued to say, “It was like God spoke.” After recording the remix with Dolly, the brothers were in awe and Joel commented that it felt like that was how the song was always meant to be sung.

Christian Studio Albums

For KING & COUNTRY have produced three studio albums as Christian musicians so far, ‘Crave’ in 2012, ‘Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong’ in 2014 and ‘Burn the Ships’ in 2018. ‘Crave’ peaked at No. 4 on the Top Christian Albums Billboard chart and No. 15 on the Top Heatseekers chart. ‘Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong’ peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 2 on the Top Christian Albums chart. It was also certified with a RIAA: Gold. ‘Burn the Ships’ peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums chart and No. 3 on the Official Christian & Gospel Albums Chart.

Christian Music Awards

In 2015, for KING & COUNTRY won two Grammy Awards; one for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album and one for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. They have also won five GMA Dove Awards, one in 2013 for New Artist of the Year, two in 2015 for both Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year, one in 2016, for Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year and in 2019, for Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year.

In 2012, iTunes selected ‘Crave’ as their Breakthrough Christian & Gospel Album of 2012. In 2013, at the K-LOVE Fan Awards, for King and Country received the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award and in 2019 they won Group or Duo of the Year and Song of the Year.

Touring has been a fundamental part of the duo’s rising popularity as Christian musicians, performing with the Winter Jam Tour Spectacular and The Proof of Your Love Tour featuring Jason Castro and Dara Maclean in 2012. 2014 saw for King and Country touring with the hugely popular Casting Crowns. They were also a part of the 2015 and 2016 Winter Jam Tours. Following the success of the 2014 tour, they again performed with Casting Crowns in the Glorious Christmas Tour.

Relationship with God  

According to KING & COUNTRY God is a Someone who guides us through the challenges of life. By simply praying and showing faith, Joel and Luke believe that God will be there to put us on the right path.

Their faith was tested when years ago, Luke was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a bowel disease that affects your digestive tract. He missed 40 shows of For KING & COUNTRY’s world tour recovering. In 2015, Luke went into remission, much to the relief of his brother, his family and his fans.

Recalling that time in his life, Luke says,