Phil Wickham: Biography, Age, Family Life, Career, And Net Worth

Phil Wickham is a Contemporary Christian vocalist/songwriter and guitarist. He is from San Diego in California.

Biography

Philip David Wickham, the second of three children (brother Evan, sister Jillian), was nurtured in a Christian environment and began leading worship for his youth group when he was 13 years old. He is a San Diego, California-based Contemporary Christian artist, performer, and composer.

Wickham’s father is a worship leader as of this date, and both of his parents were members of the Jesus movement band Parable at one point. Evan Wickham, his older brother, is also a musician who used to serve at Calvary Chapel in Vista before becoming pastor of Park Hill Church in San Diego, California.

Phlilp Wickham was encouraged by his parents, John and Lisa (née Irwin), to study popular praise songs and to write his own.

In 2014, Phil Wickham’s music career was in doubt. He was diagnosed with a vocal polyp. Initial treatment didn’t work, so he had to undergo surgery, followed by eight weeks of silence.

Age

Wickham was born April 5, 1984

Education

He graduated from Calvary Christian School in Vista, California, in 2002.

Family Life

Wickham married his long term girlfriend, Mallory on November 2, 2008, and they have three girls and one boy.

Together with his family, he attends Harvest Christian Fellowship, and Greg Laurie is his pastor.

Phil Wickham: Biography, Age, Family Life, Career, And Net Worth
Phil & Mallory Wickham

Career

Wickham began his full-time music career in 2003, when he toured California and recorded his first album, Give You My World; following its release, Wickham signed with Simple Records. Wickham’s self-titled label debut was released in 2006.

Cannons, Wickham’s second release with Simple/INO Records, was released in 2007. Cannons was inspired in part by cannon explosions as well as C. S. Lewis’ book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from The Chronicles of Narnia series.

On August 8, 2008, Wickham released Singalong, a live worship album recorded at Solid Rock Church in Portland, Oregon, with 3,000 people in attendance. The album was released only on his website as a free download, and it had over 8,000 downloads in the first week. His self-titled album arrived at No. 25 on the iTunes Store Top Christian Albums chart two years after the release of Singalong.

Heaven & Earth, Wickham’s third studio album, was released on November 17, 2009. Wickham’s Christmas CD Songs for Christmas was made available as a digital download on his website on October 29, 2010. Wickham’s fourth full-length studio album, Response, was released on October 4, 2011.

Singalong 2, Phil Wickham’s second live acoustic CD, was released on October 30, 2012. Wickham’s fifth studio album, The Ascension, was released on September 24, 2013.

The album reached No. 39 on the Billboard 200, making it Wickham’s highest charting album. “This is Amazing Grace,” the album’s main track, reached No. 1 on the year-end Christian Airplay Songs chart in 2014.

Again Wickham released the first track, “Your Love Awakens Me,” from his upcoming album, Children of God, in February 2016.  Wickham’s seventh full-length studio project, Living Hope, was released in August 2018.

The album was his first to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart.  Wickham’s 10-track holiday album, Christmas, was released on October 4, 2019, along with the music video for “Joy To The World (Joyful, Joyful)“. Wickham joined Shane & Shane on their annual Christmas tour in both Texas and California that December. Christmas remained on the Billboard Christian Albums chart for 12 weeks, peaking at No. 24.

The critically praised and award-winning Hymn of Heaven, the artist’s eighth studio album, was released in June 2021. Its releases included “Battle Belongs” (No. 2 on the Hot Christian Songs chart), “House of the Lord(No. 1), and “Hymn of Heaven” (No. 2), as well as It’s Always Been You, which was issued as a promotional single. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums Chart in the United States and No. 6 on the Official Charts’ Official Christian & Gospel Albums Chart in the United Kingdom.

Phil Wickham: Biography, Age, Family Life, Career, And Net Worth

Nominations/Awards

Battle Belongs” was nominated for a GMA Dove Award for Worship Recorded Song of the Year at the 2021 GMA Dove Awards.
At the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, the album was nominated for a Billboard Music Award for Top Christian Album.

Hymn of Heaven won Worship Album of the Year at the 2022 GMA Dove Awards, the title track won Worship Recorded Song of the Year, and “House of the Lord” was nominated for two GMA Dove Awards: Song of the Year and Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year.

Tours

Wickham performs at churches all over the world. From late 2006 to early 2007, he toured with MercyMe and Audio Adrenaline on the “Coming Up to Breathe” tour.

He joined the David Crowder Band and The Myriad on the Remedy tour in late 2007.

Net Worth

Phil Wickham’s net worth is $5 million as of December 2022.

Social Media

Instagram: @philwickham

Twitter: @philwickham

 

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