From the album Cry for the Desert (StarSong, 1991)
Twila Paris has had an astonishing 32 #1 hits, five Dove Awards, three American Songwriter Awards, and sold over 2 million albums. This is the first of four of her songs that will appear in the top 100 of this countdown. She released her first album, Little Twila Paris, in 1965 at the age of 7; a collection of songs she sang with her family at evangelistic outreaches.
Here's what she says about How Beautiful: "I think, 'how did I think of that chord progression. What in the world made me stumble onto that?' I look back on some of the songs that I have written and I really do know that I'm not that smart!" She says. “I write from personal experience. Most of my songs are prayers from me to God and are very vertical … I believe that we all go through the same things though not at the same times.” However she does it, it works. Several of her songs such as He Is Exalted, We Will Glorify, Lamb of God, and We Bow Down, have made their way into modern church hymnals.
How Beautiful only peaked at #6 on the Adult Contemporary Christian Music Chart but has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest Christian songs of all time.
Here's what she says about How Beautiful: "I think, 'how did I think of that chord progression. What in the world made me stumble onto that?' I look back on some of the songs that I have written and I really do know that I'm not that smart!" She says. “I write from personal experience. Most of my songs are prayers from me to God and are very vertical … I believe that we all go through the same things though not at the same times.” However she does it, it works. Several of her songs such as He Is Exalted, We Will Glorify, Lamb of God, and We Bow Down, have made their way into modern church hymnals.
How Beautiful only peaked at #6 on the Adult Contemporary Christian Music Chart but has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest Christian songs of all time.
Here is the original album version of the song.
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