Christian Sebastia
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Christian Sebastia in 2015
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Christian Sebastia Almenar |
| Born | May 7, 1974 |
| Origin | Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela |
| Genres |
Praise & Worship, Gospel, Contemporary Christian |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger, singer, psalmist and Pastor |
| Instruments | Voice, Piano, Cuatro venezolano, Guitar |
| Years active | 1986 – present |
| Labels | Carismah Studios (2001 – present) |
| Associated acts | Marcos Witt, Jennifer Salinas, Juan Sebastia |
| Website | christiansebastia.com |
Christian Sebastia Almenar, better known as Christian Sebastia, was born on may 7 in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar, Venezuela. He is a singer, musician, producer and composer. From 2006 to 2015, Christian was as Pastor in the Church of Jesus Christ, along with his wife Eukarys Sebastia. Christian has come to stand out as one of the most famous Christian singers and producers in the musical scene of the Christian community in Venezuela and is a contemporary proponent of Praise and Worship also called Gospel music.
Christian Sebastia was the first Venezuelan gospel artist to perform for three consecutive days in the main auditorium of Madison Square Garden in New York, before a crowd of 25,000 people accompanied by North American artists such as Martha Munizzi and Alvin Slaughter.
Christian Sebastia is the first of 5 children of the marriage between Juan Pablo Sebastia and Aura Mercedes Sebastia. In 1969, after having finished their theological studies in Puerto Rico, they moved to Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, where they began their missionary work.
In 1996 he married Eukarys Piña, with whom he has three children: Sabrina Sebastia (1999), Samantha Sebastia (2003) and Christian Sebastia Jr. (2005)
The first production where Christian Sebastia participated as a singer was "La Familia" a production of 10 songs made in 1986 and produced by his father, interpreting 2 songs.
Sebastia was featured in the New Circus of Caracas where he interpreted the songs before an audience of more than 9 thousand people, a year later he gained the recognition of the Christian hearing Protestant in Spanish through the Protestant Christian radio for the time, Radio TransMundial. But it was in 2003 with the album "En Ti" that projected his music career as an artist, composer and producer to the international scene, in 2004 he was the first Venezuelan singer to participate in the "Noche de Gala" of Expolit and the theme “Me Alegraré y Gozaré” of the album "En Ti" was included in the track 12 of the compilation musical performed by Expolit titled "Llamados para este tiempo" where he shared space with the most renowned Christian artists of the time. Christian has been uninterrupted exhibitor at Expolit for 14 years, the largest Latin-American exhibition of Christian music and literature in the Hispano-America.
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