Christian rocker Larry Norman once cheekily sang, "Why should the devil have all the good music?" He also could have asked, "Why can't Christian music get more respect?"Take Hillsong United, for instance, an eight-piece Australian rock band doubling as musical teacher, using songs to "connect people to God" and promote "love, freedom and grace for all people," said Joel Houston, the band's frontman and son of Hillsong founders Brian and Bobbie Houston.
Its February album, "Aftermath," topped Billboard's Christian albums chart in the U.S., but more impressively debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard Top 200, sandwiched between Jason Aldean and Justin Bieber.
Hillsong United is not only popular enough to have toured the world since 2007, it's also playing in arenas all over Europe and the US, including the Bradley Center, where the group will make its Milwaukee debut on Monday with the first show of Hillsong's latest North American tour. They will also be playing at the spectacular American Airlines Arena, home of the Miami Heat, on August 6.
Hillsong has been around since 1999, spun off from the youth music ministry of the popular Sydney-based Pentecostal mega-church, Hillsong.
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