“When Carman resumed touring again a few years ago, he was concerned that no one would care that he was back. In 2013, 30 years after his first hit and on the heels of his cancer diagnosis, his fans raised $280,000 for him to go on a 60-city tour. He was nominated for four Grammys, named Billboard’s Contemporary Christian Artist of the Year in 19, and sold more than 10 million albums. It lets people know there is joy in being Christian.”Ĭarman, born Carmelo Domenic Licciardello and raised the youngest of three children in an Italian American family in Trenton, New Jersey, won seven Dove Awards. “I think an artist owes it to his audience to thrill them and impress them. “The music is the best means I have of reaching the most people in the quickest way to win them to Christ,” Carman said. 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. Carman.įor those who didn’t know him, the single name was repeated as a question. 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. Moses shook his stick Said now this meeting come to order Can I get a witness For the Lord tonight Abraham kicked it off Said I want y'all know That I knew him He gave a child to my barren wife Isaac waived his hand said Hey daddy I knew him too Jacob jumped up says Amen Grandpa, preach it Old dignified Solomon Adjusted his robe and said I knew him, He made me so smart I started to teach it Ezekiel said I knew him As a wheel within a wheel Job said man he healed me When I was almost dead Sampson said I knew him When some Philistines tried to jump me I took a donkey jawbone and busted a few heads Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said We knew him in the fiery furnace Jonah said man he gave me a second chance Daniel cried out I knew him In a hungry den of lions The Holy Ghost hit King David He just started to dance Lazarus got so excited He shouted Hey I knew him too Moses put down his stick Said hey who's the new kid Needless to say the room got real quiet When Lazarus said But I knew him In a way you all never did You see man I walked with him and talked with him I saw how his teachings awed the crowds Those famous tears of compassion I could actually see He used to come over to my house after church And my sisters would make him dinner And every month I even supported his ministry You see man I watched him confront the Pharisees I was there when he fed the five thousand I heard the people gasp when he healed the lame You see man I even remember the littlest things The things that most folks would forget Like the simple, loving way He'd just call my name Up at the grave stone rolled away With a loud voice Jesus started to say, Lazarus You see it just seems like yesterday I could hear that man saying my name Lazarus As a matter of a fact it seemed like today Lazarus Excuse me brothers I think I hear him calling me now Lazarus Jesus Lazarus……….Jesus Lazarus……….Jesus Lazarus……….Jesus Lazarus……….After a 40-year career in Christian music, Carman died in Las Vegas Tuesday night due to complications from surgery. When he died he went to where The saints of God did stay In the holding place They lived beyond the tomb And there he saw Elijah, Moses, Samuel, even Ruth And all the others jammed up in a room He turned around and saw Ol' Gideon standin' by the door He walked up and said hey brother What's this group here for Well Giddie said Well alright this is testimony night Have a seat man cause The meeting is starting soon While Mary and Martha Just wanted to see I am the resurrection and the Life He that believeth in me Though he were dead Yet shall he liveĪ certain man had died In the town of Bethany And Lazarus was his name The Bible says he was A man that Jesus loved And his sisters thought It was a shame Mary and Martha longed For Jesus healing touch To come and raise their brother Cause they loved that boy so much But Jesus had a plan not known to any man That would soon take away their pain They was waiting for Jesus To come and sayĬhorus: Lazarus, Lazarus, Lazarus Come Forth
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