Lecrae wins his first Grammy Award

11 Feb 2013 | News

Lecrae has won "Best Gospel Album" at the 55th Grammy Awards in America, for his album "Gravity".  Although supposidly he missed accepting the award and giving his speech because he was detained on the red carpet.

"Gravity" debuted at no.3 on the Billboard charts last year.

Other winners in the Gospel categories were:  Mary Mary, Matt Redman, Israel & New Breed, and tobyMac.

TobyMac won "Best Contemporary Christian Music Album" for his album "Eye On It".  It debuted no.1 on the Billboard charts last year.  He talked to Washington Post about how he's pleased that some of the walls between the Christian market and mainstream consumers are coming down.  “Jesus didn’t hang out in the church,” tobyMac said. “He hung out with the people, where they were. And that’s to me where Christian music should be.”

Here's a list of all of this year's Gospel Grammy nominees and winners.