The 31st Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 20, 2000 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 1999. The show was held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

, and was hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathie Lee Gifford is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run on the talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin...

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Award recipients

Song

• "This Is Your Time" by Michael W. Smith
  Michael W. Smith
  Michael Whitaker Smith is a Billboard top ten Billboard Hot 100 recording artist and Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian music. Smith also has achieved a considerable amount of...
  
   & Wes King
  Wes King
  Wes King , born in Winder, Georgia, is an American contemporary-Christian singer, songwriter, and musician. He is perhaps best known for his 1993 album The Robe. For a very brief period in the late 1980s, he attended Covenant College outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee...
  
  

Songwriter

• Michael W. Smith

Male Vocalist

• Steven Curtis Chapman
  Steven Curtis Chapman
  Steven Curtis Chapman is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist.After starting his career in the late 1980s as a singer/songwriter of contemporary Christian music, Chapman has since been recognized as one of the most prolific singers in the genre,...
  
  

Female Vocalist

• Jaci Velasquez
  Jaci Velasquez
  Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin Pop singer—in both English and Spanish languages....
  
  

Group

• Sixpence None the Richer
  Sixpence None the Richer
  Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...
  
  

Artist

• Steven Curtis Chapman

New Artist

• Ginny Owens
  Ginny Owens
  Virginia Leigh Owens is a Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. "Ginny" Owens was born in Jackson, Mississippi, with poor eyesight and has been blind since the age of two. She earned her bachelor of music education in 1997 from Belmont University, but found that most people were...
  
  

Producer

• Brown Bannister
  Brown Bannister
  Brown Bannister is a CCM producer and songwriter. Bannister released one album of his own, Talk to One Another, in 1981 on NewPax Records. It was reissued on the Reunion Records Label five years later, featuring a newer recording of the album's final cut, "Create In Me A Clean Heart"...
  
  

Southern Gospel Album

• God Is Good by The Gaither Vocal Band

Southern Gospel Recorded Song

• "Healing" from Faithful by The Cathedrals

Inspirational Album

• Be Still My Soul by Selah
  Selah
  Selah is a word used frequently in the Hebrew Bible, often in the Psalms, and is a difficult concept to translate. It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen"...
  
   (Jason Kyle, Todd Smith, Allan Hall)

Inspirational Recorded Song

• "I Will Follow Christ" from Clay Crosse by Clay Crosse
  Clay Crosse
  Clay Crosse is a Dove award winning CCM artist. He is probably best known for the single "I Surrender All."-Music career:...
  
  , Steve Siler

Pop/Contemporary Album

• Speechless
  Speechless (Steven Curtis Chapman album)
  Speechless is the ninth studio album from Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman. It was released on June 15, 1999, by Sparrow Records.It has been certified Platinum as of November 27, 2000, by the RIAA...
  
  by Steven Curtis Chapman

Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song

• "Dive" from Speechless by Steven Curtis Chapman

Contemporary Gospel Album (Formerly Contemporary Black Gospel)

• Anointed by Anointed
  Anointed
  Anointed is a Contemporary Christian music group from Columbus, Ohio, known for their strong vocals and harmonies, featuring siblings Steve Crawford and Da'dra Crawford Greathouse, along with former members Nee-C Walls and Mary Tiller . Their musical style includes elements of R&B, Pop, Rock,...
  
   (Keith Crouch, Tony Rich, Chris Harris, Mark Heimermann, Wayne Tester, Kern Brantley)

Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song (Formerly Contemporary Black Gospel)

• "Power" from The Prince of Egypt-Inspirational by Fred Hammond and Radical for Christ

Traditional Gospel Album (Formerly Traditional Black Gospel)

• Healing—Live In Detroit by Richard Smallwood with Vision

Traditional Gospel Recorded Song (Formerly Traditional Black Gospel)

• "God Can" from God Can & God Will by Dottie Peoples

Urban Recorded Song

• "Anything Is Possible" from Anointed by Anointed (Nee-C Walls-Allen, Steve Crawford, Da'dra Crawford Greathouse, Keith Crouch, John Smith, Sherree Ford Payne)

Country Album

• A Glen Campbell Christmas by Glen Campbell
  Glen Campbell
  Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
  
  

Country Recorded Song

• "Angel Band" from Vestal and Friends by Vestal Goodman, George Jones

Rock Album

• Time by Third Day
  Third Day
  Third Day is a Grammy award-winning Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell, guitarist Mark Lee and former member Billy Wilkins. The other band members are bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr...
  
  

Rock Recorded Song

• "Get Down" from Underdog by Audio Adrenaline
  Audio Adrenaline
  Audio Adrenaline was a Christian rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, Kentucky. During the band's 17-year existence, they were awarded two Grammy awards, multiple Dove Awards and they released 17 number one singles. They were regular performers at the...
  
   (Mark Stuart, Bob Herdman, Will McGinniss, Ben Cissell, Tyler Burkum)

Hard Music Album

• Point #1 by Chevelle
  Chevelle
  Chevelle is an American alternative metal trio that formed in 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The band was originally composed of two brothers and a local friend: Pete Loeffler , Sam Loeffler , and Matt Scott . Matt was later replaced by brother Joe Loeffler...
  
  

Hard Music Recorded Song

• "Mia" from Point #1 by Chevelle (Pete Loeffler, Joe Loeffler, Sam Loeffler)

Rap/Hip Hop Album

• Power by Raze
  Raze
  Raze may refer to:* Demolition* Raze, Haute-Saône, a town in France* Raze * Raze * Raze , a fictional character in the Underworld films* Raze , a made for TV film aired on syfy...
  
  

Rap/Hip Hop Recorded Song

• "They All Fall Down” from Grammatical Revolution by Grits
  Grits
  Grits are a food of American Indian origin common in the Southern United States and mainly eaten at breakfast. They consist of coarsely ground corn, or sometimes alkali-treated corn . They are also sometimes called sofkee or sofkey from the Muskogee language word...
  
   (T Carter, S Jones, R Robbins, O Price)

Modern Rock Album

• Candycoatedwaterdrops by Plumb
  Plumb
  Plumb may refer to:* Plumb, a carpentry term meaning a line which is exactly vertical, or perpendicular to a level horizontal line* Plumb-bob, a type of tool* Plumbing* Plumb, to measure the depth of water with a sounding line...
  
  

Modern Rock Recorded Song

• "Unforgetful You" from If I Left the Zoo by Jars of Clay
  Jars of Clay
  Jars of Clay is a Christian rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois.Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on vocals, Charlie Lowell on piano and keyboards, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars...
  
   (Dan Haseltine, Matt Odmark, Steve Mason, Charlie Lowell)

Instrumental Album

• Majesty And Wonder by Phil Keaggy
  Phil Keaggy
  Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...
  
  

Praise And Worship Album

• Sonicflood by SONICFLOOd
  SONICFLOOd
  Sonicflood is an American Christian Worship band from Nashville, Tennessee. Originally under the name Zilch, the band formed in 1997. The group took the name Sonicflood in 1998 as they became known as a praise and worship band following some line-up changes...
  
   (Bryan Lenox, Jeff Deyo, Jason Halbert, Dwayne Larring, Aaron Blanton)

Children's Music Album

• Larry-Boy: The Soundtrack by Veggie Tales (Kurt Heinecke, Mike Nawrocki, Masaki, David Mullen)

Musical

• A Christmas To Remember by Claire Cloninger, Gary Rhodes

Youth/Children's Musical

• Lord, I Lift Your Name On High by Karla Worley, Steven V. Taylor

Choral Collection

• High & Lifted Up by Carol Cymbala

Special Event Album

• Streams by Cindy Morgan, Maire Brennan, Michael McDonald, Sixpence None the Richer, Chris Rodriguez, Michelle Tumes, 4HIM, Delirious?, Amy Grant, Jaci Velasquez, Burlap to Cashmere, Point of Grace

Short Form Music Video

• This Is Your Time by Michael W. Smith (Amy Marsh)

Long Form Music Video

• The Supernatural Experience by dc Talk
  Dc Talk
  DC Talk , is a Grammy-winning Christian rock music trio. The group was formed in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1987 by Toby McKeehan, Michael Tait, and Kevin Max Smith. They have released five major studio albums together: DC Talk , Nu Thang , Free at Last , Jesus Freak , and Supernatural...
  
   (Eric Welch, Dan Pitts)

Recorded Music Packaging

• Streams by Various (Loren Balman, Chuck Hargett)

Bluegrass Recorded Song

• "So Fine" from So Fine by Lewis Family

Spanish Language Album

• Llegar A Ti by Jaci Velasquez

Enhanced CD

• Without Condition by Ginny Owens

Urban Album

• (insufficient number of eligible entries)

Bluegrass Album

• Kentucky Bluegrass by The Bishops