Krystal Meyers' bio

Krystal Meyers (born July 31, 1988 in Orange County, California) is a American Christian rock / Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter and musician.
Krystal (the daughter of Rick Meyers, creator of the popular Bible study software e-Sword) started singing around her home at the age of two. She sang her first solo in church at the age of five, started writing songs by age ten and was playing the acoustic guitar by thirteen, later releasing her self titled first album "Krystal Meyers" at age sixteen in 2005. Her second album, "Dying For A Heart", was released on September 19, 2006 and her third "Make Some Noise" was released on September 9, 2008 and was later used by NBC in promoting its fall 2008 line-up. and a sampling of her music was used on ABC's high-impact Sunday-Night Lineup.

Born in California, she and her family later moved to Eugene, Oregon, (where her brother Josh was born), and when she was six she and her family moved from there to Franklin, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb.

While at Barefoot Republic youth camp, at the age of fourteen, before entering the ninth grade, she wrote "Anticonformity" (the song she says got her started) with a friend, Hannah Dwinell. When she entered the ninth grade she says she saw her peers falling into drugs and sex and then "anticonformity" became "really real" to her: [What's important is] "becoming the person God wants you to be and refusing to become the person that the world wants you to be...and to pursue the plan that God has for you... I know exactly what you're going through... I just want to encourage you."
“I knew I would be doing music ministry ever since I could talk,” she says. “A lady in our church told my mom ‘Your daughter is going to travel the world and be a missionary.’ That’s what this is—a mission field and music is the outlet... My faith means everything to me,” she says. “It’s who I am. It’s the basis of everything I do. Jesus Christ is everything. He’s given me peace and joy that is so unreal that I just have to sing about it. It comes out in my music. I have to share what I believe! ...I want God to be speaking through my music. So I stepped back and prayed about it. I surrendered the whole writing process to God.” In Japan, where Krystal's first record went gold, she has been on the cover of "Nylon" Japan, "AERA English" magazine, twice (their second issue in 2007 and their eleventh issue in 2008) and Tower Records' "Bounce" magazine. Krystal has also been on the cover of "In Rock" which is Japan's version of "Rolling Stone" magazine,and in the United States she has been on the cover of "Vision" magazine and "ONCOURSE" magazine and she has done world-wide modeling for UNIQLO: One of their Television commercials which was also used on the Internet and she did print and Internet modeling for UNIQLO's "Style Book".
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*Note: Yes, Krystal is American and sings in English, but she is a mainstream celebrity in JAPAN.* close