for King & Country
Appearing on Unity Main Stage Presented by Country Dairy – 2021
The GRAMMY® award-winning Australian duo, for KING & COUNTRY is comprised of brothers Joel & Luke Smallbone. October 2018 saw the release of their much anticipated third studio album, Burn the Ships, which debuted at #7 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Burn the Ships is a sweeping musical landscape that explores themes of new beginnings, forgiveness, hope, and love. The album recently earned the duo a GRAMMY® for album of the year. The single, “God Only Knows” reached #1 on the Billboard Audience chart and has accumulated close to 65 million global on-demand streams, increasing the duo’s career on demand streams to 661 million. Their collaborative version of the song with Dolly Parton earned a GRAMMY® for song/performance of the year.
To kick off 2019, Joel & Luke launched Part I of their burn the ships | world tour, performing in their Australian homeland for the first time and selling out every show, including the iconic Sydney Opera House. The tour then successfully traveled across the United States, including a stop in Muskegon, Michigan, to sell-out crowds.
Their previous album, the gold-certified RUN WILD. LIVE FREE. LOVE STRONG. debuted at No. 1 on iTunes, and produced two GRAMMYs®, four Dove Awards, a successful 60-date arena tour, and a world tour that has so far produced 22 sold out dates. They have garnered five No. 1 hits, nine Top 10 hits, and had songs featured on the Emmys, Super Bowl, Sunday Night Football and other high-profile events, including performances on The Tonight Show, Today Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! In October 2016, the Smallbone brothers released the indie film inspired by their No. 1 hit of the same name, Priceless, about human trafficking.
