Jill Phillips

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Singer/Songwriter Jill Phillips

Jill Phillips is a CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) artist based out of Nashville, who brings a folk-rock sound. Phillips got her start in the music career when she graduated from Belmont University in 1998. Her first self-named album was produced by grammy-award winning Wayne Kirkpatrick who was known for producing such singers as Amy Grant, Garth Brooks, and Susan Ashton. Kirkpatrick said that it was "the honesty of her (Phillips) songs, the charm of her voice, and the strength of her character that drew me to her as an artist -- I knew that being involved with someone like that would be time well spent."

For the most part of her start, Phillips toured with Caedmon’s Call and Bebo Norman, but soon Phillips made her jump from the sidelines by recording her next album, God and Money, by herself. Her second album would also be her biggest break into the CCM industry and was raved by CCM Magazine as reader’s choice for Independent Artist of the Year in 2002.

In 2003 Phillips was signed by Fervent Records and she released her third album, Writing on the Wall, which was aided by the collaboration of many other artists including Bebo Norman and Stephen Mason of Jars of Clay.

Two years later, in 2005, Phillips released a speciality album called Kingdom Come. And then would go on to record her fifth and most recent album Nobody's Got It All Together, which was released in early 2006.

In 2006, Phillips founded the Square Peg Alliance with 12 other independent Christian artists in order to cross-promote each other's music.

She currently tours her new album, while retaining plenty of time for her two children. Jill is also a self-proclaimed cook, loves to visit The Outer Banks of North Carolina and is an avid watcher of Meet The Press.