Andrew Woodman is a worship leader based in Milton

Milton, Cambridgeshire

Milton is a village just north of Cambridge, England. It has a population of approximately 4,300 with 3,200 being on the electoral register. It expanded considerably in the late 1980s when two large housing estates were built between the bypass and the village resulting in a doubling of the...

, north of Cambridge

Cambridge

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, England

England

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Andy has been leading Christian

Christian

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 bands and worship in Christian settings since the age of 15. After a period spent at the Soul Survivor Church in Watford

Watford

Watford is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, situated northwest of central London and within the bounds of the M25 motorway. The borough is separated from Greater London to the south by the urbanised parish of Watford Rural in the Three Rivers District.Watford was created as an urban...

 in 2002, alongside other worship leaders such as Matt Redman

Matt Redman

Matt Redman is an English Christian worship leader, songwriter and author based in Brighton.He has worked with Newfrontiers, Passion Conferences, Hillsong London, Soul Survivor, is an artist for Sixstepsrecords and is a member of Compassionart a charity founded by Martin Smith.He appeared with...

, Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes is a British worship leader and singer-songwriter. He is currently Director of Worship at Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican church in central London, and heads up Worship Central, an international worship training and resource centre.- Personal life :Hughes is the son of an Anglican...

 and Martyn Layzell

Martyn Layzell

Martyn Layzell is a Curate at Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican Church in Central London. He is also a Worship Leader, and has regularly led worship at major Christian events including Soul Survivor and New Wine. He features on several live albums from those events both as a singer and a songwriter...

, he returned to his home town. He was involved in a variety of projects including All Saints at 7 (AS@7), a contemporary service based in the Parish Church in Milton and youth and pastoral work. Andy was also involved in leading a city-wide band formed for the CRAVE project, an initiative to reach those aged 18–25 who are no longer in education. Andrew spent a year (2007)studying at Hillsong International Leadership College in Sydney Australia, where he majored in worship and creative arts with an emphasis in acoustic guitar. It was there that he became engaged to his lifetime friend Jo Woodman (also from England) who is now his wife. He also often visits other churches and bands to teach them about worship, presenting seminars on topics such as Band Dynamics.

Andy's début album, Empty Handed, was released in 2004, containing 9 tracks. The limited edition contained photos of him posing nude and visibly aroused outside various schools in Cambridgeshire.