Life Story This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. If you know of a Christian testimony story or video online, please email us the link so we can post it on our site. Since then He has given me true peace, my professional surfing career, true friends and a ministry that used surfing to share the love of Jesus with young people all over the world.Īt Life Story Foundation, we are continually looking for inspirational videos and stories that describe a person's life before and after they found their Christian faith. That night, right there in my room I asked Him to change my life, and He did. I knew I needed to live my life the way God wanted me to, so I prayed to God. I had already experienced for the previous 17 years what life is like when I chose to resist God and try to do things my way. I could either obey Him and be blessed, or I could resist Him and be miserable. if yo are willing and obedient, you will inherit the best of the land, but if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword."Īfter reading that scripture, I knew that God was giving me two choices. I flipped open the Bible and the very first scripture I read was Isaiah 1:18, :though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. One night I decied to read the Bible that had been sitting, gathering dust, on my desk. His funeral will be Monday at the Presbyterian Church in Farmington.Bryan Jennings: As I was growing up, my friends and I were doing what many teenagers are doing today - drinking,having sex before marriage and swearing. He also operated a website and wrote a memoir, "An American Band: The America Story." Just last month he signed copies of the book at a Christian bookstore in Farmington. there are quite a few of his albums available on CD. bradley, go to amazon and type in dan peek. The vinyl is as common as dirt and the albums arent available on CD. Milton Peek said his son continued to write songs and record in the studio in his Farmington home until his death. BradOlson said: Dan did record a lot of Contemporary Christian Music albums as a result of his becoming born again and they sold very well. He moved to Farmington, an area where his father was once stationed, that same year. Beckley and Bunnell sang harmonies on the song, "Love Was Just Another Word." It marked the last time the three recorded together, according to Billboard, though they occasionally reunited on stage.Ī fire in 1978 burned Peek's home and belongings in California. 1 on the Contemporary Christian Music chart and was nominated for a Grammy Award. His first solo album in 1979, "All Things Are Possible," reached No. He left America in 1977 and turned to Contemporary Christian music. "He was a Christian and he just got tired of the rat race," his father said. In the late 1970s, Peek became disenchanted with the travel and lifestyle. "The three of them were Air Force brats," Milton Peek said. He met Bunnell and Beckley in the late 1960s. The founding member still crafts the occasional song while maintaining a weekly blog at his Web site, which is accessible at. His father was in the Air Force and the family frequently moved. As the band America crisscrosses the United States in celebration of its 40th anniversary, one-third of that original trio Dan Peek remains a semi-retired musician. Man serving life sentence for child sexual abuse escapes Texas prison He also had a home in the Cayman Islands. Peek had lived in Farmington since 1978, soon after he left the band. "Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all," Beckley wrote on the group's website. Peek played lead guitar on many of the songs, and wrote some of them, including the 1974 hit "Lonely People." 1 hit "Horse With No Name." Other hits followed: "Tin Man," ''Sister Golden Hair," and "Daisy Jane," among them. The group's first album in 1971 included the No. "We created lasting music together and experienced a life that we could never have imagined." "It was a joyous time for the three of us, full of excitement and laughter," Bunnell wrote on the band's website after learning of Peek's death. All told, America had three platinum and three gold albums, along with eight Top 40 hits, from 1971 through 1975. After signing a record contract, America was an almost instant sensation with songs featuring tight harmonies over catchy tunes. Air Force, had met the two other members of America - Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley - while attending high school in London. Dan Peek suffered from arthritis, but it wasn't known if that was a contributing factor. The cause of death was not known, and an autopsy was planned. Peek's wife, Catherine, found him dead Sunday in bed in his home in Farmington, Mo., about 60 miles southwest of St. Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band America and singer of high harmonies on hits that included "A Horse With No Name" and "Ventura Highway," has died, his father said Tuesday.
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