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It should also be remembered that an artist's personal religious affiliation can have absolutely nothing to do with what genre they sing in. Christian rock refers exclusively to music that is about Christianity. Christians may (and often do) sing in other genres as well.
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== [[Music]] ==▼
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* Bible Rap, or as its aficionados call it, "Holy Hip-Hop":
{{quote|The Bible is the holy book
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** Their song "We're in a Parody Band" labels themselves as part Weird Al and part Billy Graham.
* [[Relient K]] is a Christian punk-pop band with a penchant for quirky lyrics and, early on especially, pop culture references. They've become a bit more vague, but they are still in the genre.
** They even did a cover of "[[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]" which - while not actually a religious song - was originally written by Christian cartoon show, ''[[Veggie Tales]]''.
* One of the pioneers of the genre was [[Petra]], founded in 1974. Their name is Greek for "rock", and that's pretty much the only descriptor of their style that's vague enough to remain accurate throughout their history (in the '80s alone, they went from sounding like [[Kansas]] to being a heavy metal band), with synthesizer-fueled pop-rock somewhere in the middle. They got a ''lot'' of flak early on for daring to play rock music (which many Christians at the time were still uneasy about), and levered a couple [[Take That]]s to their accusers in response.
* KJ-52 is a comedy rapper as much as he is a Christian rapper.
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* Another seminal figure in Christian Rock is guitarist Phil Keaggy. There's a popular incorrect urban legend about an interviewer asking [[Jimi Hendrix]] how it felt to be the world's greatest guitar player. He responded by saying, "I don't know, you'll have to ask Phil Keaggy." Incorrect because Keaggy was still unknown by the time Hendrix died.
* ''Day of Fire'' is a repeatedly stated Christian Rock band, whose songs are so rock that it's hard to notice the christian references, unless they directly throw it in there, and even then it's hard to notice sometimes (Rain Song comes to mind). Having a guitarist tour previously in a non-christian rock band certainly helps with the sound. Unfortunately, they recently went on hiatus.
* During the 1990s punk resurgence, one of the bigger marquee names was a band called [[Mx Px]]. They were on MTV's ''
* [[Sixpence None the Richer]] started as a Christian Rock band before finding mainstream success in the late '90s.
* [[Barlow Girl]]. Their single, "I Need You To Love Me," is to date the longest number one hit in CCM radio history.
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* Mercy Me, which wrote crossover hit "I Can Only Imagine" and is still tremendously popular in Christian rock/pop circles.
=== [[Theater]] ===
* Before many of these examples were the Bible-themed rock musicals of the early seventies, ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' and ''[[Godspell]]''. The albums of music from these shows (and later from the movie versions of each) showed many record executives that there really was a market for Christian Rock/Pop.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===▼
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* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had the [[Hair Metal]] band [[Quiet Riot]] become the Christian metal band "Pious Riot".
{{quote|"Christian rock's just like regular rock; you just replace the word "Jesus" with "baby"."}}
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