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Died: Carman, Christian Showman Who Topped Charts with Triumphant Faith

After a 40-year career in Christian music, Carman died in Las Vegas Tuesday night due to complications from surgery. He was 65.

He was a one-name celebrity, and for those who knew him, the Christian singer and showman ranked in the highest echelons of American stardom, up there with the other mononymous divas: Madonna. Cher. Liberace. Carman.

For those who didn’t know him, the single name was repeated as a question. Carman? But if Carman’s star never quite secured its place at the zenith of American fame, he never let that dim his belief in his own celebrity, the awesome power of the concert-show-crusade-event, and his commitment to producing a pop spectacle for Jesus.

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“The music is the best means I have of reaching the most people in the quickest way to win them to Christ,” Carman said. “I think an artist owes it to his audience to thrill them and

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The death of American singer and songwriter Carman brings to an end the ministry of one of the most controversial figures in the decades-long history of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM).

For some he was an important musical pioneer who alongside easy listening balladry, helped introduce funk, rock and rap to US Christian radio listeners, and an important musical evangelist who led thousands to faith in Christ. For others, he was a clown prince whose over the top showbiz excesses in vast American auditoria made him an easy target for derision, while his questionable, and possibly dangerous, theology mixed fundamentalist belligerence and Pentecostal fervour.

Italian American Carman was born Carmelo Domenic Licciardello on 19 January 1956 in Trenton, New Jersey. As a teenager he played drums and occasionally guitar in his mother’s band. Then he embarked on the showbiz road himself as a nightclub singer, eventually working the Vegas circuit, though without much success.

In 1976 Carman’s life undertook a 180 degree turn when his sister took him to the annual

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Carman (Carmelo Domenic Licciardello) was born in New Jersey where he grew up in an Italian home full of music and laughter. As a boy, Carman played the drums and the guitar, and he began singing in his teenage years. As his career developed, Carman played clubs then went on to Las Vegas. It was after seeing an Andrae Crouch concert that Carman gave his life to Jesus Christ and embraced his new found faith in the living Savior. After five years of ministerial preparation, he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma where he began to develop his ministry headquarters for a worldwide outreach.

During the next two decades Carman changed the face of Christian music and evolved contemporary evangelism into what it is today. Carman established "Carman World Outreach," a non-profit organization that helps touch the lives of literally millions of people worldwide. Billboard Magazine recognized Carman's influence in Christian music by first naming him "Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year" in 1990. He has received numerous gold and platinum albums and videos. Even with all t