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Marty Goetz has been called a modern day psalmist. His songs are
scriptures beautifully set to music, leaving listeners spiritually moved,
inspired and educated. With melodic and fresh acoustical/classic arrangements,
Marty Goetz has the ability to lead you into a place of true intimacy with God.
Though Marty would never refer to himself as 'anointed' the endless letters
he receives confirm that God is moving through him and his music.
In 1965, when thirteen year-old MARTY GOETZ stood at the bimah of Cleveland's
Temple on the Heights for his Bar-mitzvah and solemnly sang the ancient words
of the Torah, no one -- least of all Marty -- could have envisioned that some
twenty years later he would be singing to God, this time as a featured
performer at Billy Graham's 1991 Rally in Central Park. For, although Marty
knew that music would always be a part of his life, God was something he
thought he could now leave behind.
As half of 'Bert & Marty', he sang at clubs and dinner
theatres around Pittsburgh while studying English at Carnegie Mellon
University. There was even a non-singing guest appearance on 'Mister
Rogers' as Smokey Bear. After graduation, he and Bert set out for
New York City, determined, as Marty remembers, 'to give it two weeks to
become a star or I'd go back to Cleveland and the family furniture
business.' Just one week later, Marty and Bert found themselves performing
at hotels in the Catskill Mountains. At the end of the summer they were
named 'Best New Act of 1974'. Then Bert found Jesus. Horrified at
his partner's born again experience, Marty broke up the act and returned
to New York City. He worked steadily as a songwriter and cabaret
entertainer until 1978, when he shifted his ambitions from Broadway to Pop
and moved to Los Angeles. Provoked by the increasing numbers of
born-agains in his life, he began reading the Bible, 'looking for
loopholes'. A few short weeks later, sitting alone one night on a friend's
balcony, looking down on the lights of Sunset Boulevard, he realized with
certainty that 'the Jesus of the New Testament was the Messiah my people
have been longing for'. Within a year, Marty began performing with
Debby Boone and soon began to establish himself as a strong and passionate
voice for Messianic believers within the church. He has ministered
before congregations as diverse as Jack Hayford's Church on the Way, Coral
Gables Presbyterian, Chicago's Moody Church, David Wilkerson's Times
Square Church, and the First Baptist Church of Kingston, New York.
Ministries such as Focus on the Family, Insight For Living, TBN, Promise
Keepers, Billy Graham Training Center/The Cove and CBN have invited Marty
to come and share his musical gifts and talents. Marty has been
recording music steadily since 1985, and today lives outside of Nashville,
Tennessee with his wife Jennifer and their daughter Danyel
Misha.
For more information contact: Marty Goetz
Ministries, Inc. P.O. Box 411 Franklin, Tennessee 37065
http://www.martygoetz.com/
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