Peter Furler Launches Solo Career Ahead Of Debut Album 'On Fire'
Former Newsboys lead singer Peter Furler officially launched his new solo career over the weekend with a performance at Australia's Easterfest 2011. Peter will release his debut solo album 'On Fire' on 21st June 2011, with the album's first single 'Reach' available to buy now from iTunes.
With multiple Grammy nominations and Dove awards, sales of five RIAA Certified Gold records, over seven million albums sold and 25 Number 1 songs, Peter Furler returns to music after ending his long tenure in 2009 as the lead singer of Newsboys, the band he founded in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia.
"I didn't have a clue what I was doing next," Furler reflects of leaving Newsboys. "I'd been doing 100-plus shows a year, writing, then finishing a record for more than a decade. It was good, but it was a merry-go-round that was never going to stop. Artistically and creatively, I began to see that God didn't make the horse to win at the races, but for his pleasure - to watch it run. I had a definite yearning to get back to nature, to express myself creatively, to do something just for the joy of it."
"The songs never really stopped. They kept coming," Furler says. "I'd take a long walk, and a song would come into my head… There is a fire shut up in my bones that I have not been able to hold in since I was a child. For me, I find its release through melody and testimony. We all need to be reminded that God is personal," Furler says as 'Reach' struck a very personal chord with him. "The One who created the heaven, the One who is everywhere and all knowing yearns deeply for us... He cares for us individually, where we are."
At Easterfest, Furler performed songs from the new album as well as some of the biggest hits he has written including 'He Reigns' and 'Something Beautiful'. He was joined on stage by long time friend and former Newsboys guitarist Paul Coleman, plus Me In Motion front man Seth Mosely who worked on the new album. Peter also unveiled his wife Summer as the new keyboard player in his band.
'On Fire' Track Listing:
01. I'm Alive
02. Reach
03. Glory To The King
04. Never Ending Love Song
05. Matter Of Faith
06. All In Your Head
07. Closer (Featuring Steve Taylor And Some Other Band)
08. Faster And Louder
09. Psalm 23
10. Hold On
11. Greater Is He (Featuring Phil Joel And Bill Furler)
