Dance music isn’t the easiest business to make into a career.  Trust me, I’ve been a DJ for over 9 years now, and I’m still trying.  However, it’s a dream that many of us still hold onto, and strive to achieve.  The biggest thing that holds back many young, aspiring DJs and producers from taking that next step from amateur to professional is knowledge of the industry.

A while ago, Carey Jarvis gave us a brief history of Christian dance music. This month I want to share with you how I feel about where we are today. Some of this is great and other parts of this will probably draw some criticism from our forum members. The short answer is we are doing better, but we have a long way to go as a whole, but let’s take a detailed and hopefully non-bias look at things.

In the previous issue, I wrote a somewhat emotional article about the foundation we ought to have as Christians involved in the music industry. This article is going to be a bit less emotional. It’s going to deal with the ins and outs of our industry and how we might improve what we’re doing. I’m going to point out a few bad things and a few good things, and we’ll get to hear some thoughts from people in the industry itself. Hopefully, these things can be useful for everyone in working toward a new position in the music industry.

The music industry has become a pretty major passion of mine, thanks to my career and ministry in radio. Anything I do is a result of what the industry is doing, whether it’s good or bad. For the last six years that I’ve been developing my career in radio and mass media, I’ve had no choice but to keep my fingers on the pulse of the music industry.