contemporary Christian music
"a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music" -- wikipedia
Music
Calibrations measure the music of the artist or band but omit contributions beyond that context such as hired songwriters, guest performers and other collaborators.
Sinéad O'Connor
Throughout her music career, she spoke about her spiritual journey, activism, socio-political views, as well as her trauma and mental health struggles -- wikipedia
Enya
Noted for her modern Celtic music, she is the best-selling Irish solo artist and the second-best-selling Irish musical act overall after the rock band U2 -- wikipedia
Bee Gees - I Started A Joke
Priority request. Video of a 1997 performance in Las Vegas embedded.
Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town
Anti-woke anthem banned on Country Music Television rose to #1 on iTunes downloads.
Music to be Born By
This soothing, 70-minute soundscape, originally created for the birth of Mickey Hart's son Taro in 1983, was intended to transform the coldness of a hospital birthing room into a warm, rhythmic environment for the process of labor and birthing -- request
Michael Buble – Feeling Good
Birds flying high / You know how I feel / Sun in the sky / You know how I feel / Breeze driftin' on by / You know how I feel / It's a new dawn / It's a new day / It's a new life / For me
I Don't Want To Be – Gavin DeGraw
36 million views on YouTube. Calibrated by request.
Suddenly – Billy Ocean
Love song from the 1980s.
Lord Don't Give Up On Me, by Merle Haggard
Lord, don't tune me out, don't go away / I'm just a wandering pilgrim, all alone / And lord, I'm only halfway home. (video embedded)
cello
Request: The string instrument said to have the same range as the human voice.
Kim Walker Smith (music)
Request: Kim Walker Smith’s voice brings me to a place of complete worship inside me to God. I feel it has the power to heal my mental states of mind when I’m listening to her music.
I Will Follow You Into The Dark, by Death Cab for Cutie
Priority request: The song has 280m plays on Spotify, 31m views on YouTube. I've heard it at weddings, but it also seems like it could be played at a funeral.
heavenly music: Cantique de Jean Racine
The nineteen-year-old composer set the text in 1864–65 for a composition competition at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, and it won him the first prize -- wikipedia
Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch
Goodbye to you / Goodbye to everything I thought I knew / You were the one I loved / The one thing that I tried to hold onto -- chorus