Michelle Tumes

Michelle Louise Tumes (born 1971) is an Australian contemporary Christian performer from Adelaide. In 1993, she moved to the United States and she released four studio albums, Listen, Center of My Universe (2000), Dream (2001) and Michelle Tumes (2006).

Career Tumes was born in 1971 and grew up in Adelaide. She has a younger sister and a younger brother. She participated in school plays, was in choir, and as a child sang at lunchtime in the schoolyard for her classmates. Tumes grew up Baptist however as a teen she was part of a charismatic church. Her father was a minister and she got involved in playing worship music for church when she was 10 or 11. Occasionally she would "do an item" (perform a special) at church. She went to a university (uni) in Australia studying dentistry. "In Australia you go straight into your course, you don't do an under-grad", she said. While in a Santa Clarita, California church parking lot in 2008 and 2009, a man who worked for Disney asked her if she recorded demos. That led to her working with him and "20 other" writers and individuals on "Fly to Your Heart" from Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. Selena Gomez sang the song for the film. A highlight from her time there she says was working with performers who were studying at the Malibu, California campus of Pepperdine University.

Personal life Tumes and Douglas Higgins, a music engineer who also works in film and television, married on 26 December 1999 They left Nashville in 2001. She signed with Warner Chappell Music (working on music for Alessandro Safina) and also wrote two songs for Jump5. She and Aaron Benward (a singer-songwriter who is an executive producer on God. Family. Football.) are making a film about Brush Creek Academy in Jay, Oklahoma, northeast of Tulsa, winning the eight-man football state championship.

Discography

Albums Studio albums Listen (1998, Sparrow Records) Center of My Universe (2000, Sparrow Records) Dream (2001, Sparrow Records) Michelle Tumes (2006, Levantar Records)

Compilations and EPs Very Best of Michelle Tumes (2006, Sparrow Records) Christmas Is Here (2007, Levantar Records) Greatest Hits (2008, EMI CMG Label Group)

Other appearances Hear and Beyond, Various Artists ("Listen"), 1996 Experiencing God, Various Artists ("All Your Works Are Wonderful"), 1998 Listen to Our Hearts Vol. 1, Various Artists ("What a Wondrous Love Is This" and "Heaven Will Be Near Me"), 1998 Get Real Music Sampler, Various Artists ("Heaven Will Be Near Me"), 1998 Heaven and Earth: A Tapestry of Worship, Various Artists ("For the Glory of Your Name" and "My Dwelling Place"), 1999 To Have & To Hold: 15 Songs of Love & Marriage, Various Artists ("My Constant Love"), 1999 Streams, Various Artists ("Hold On"), 1999 Thomas Kinkade: Music of Light (features Rob Mathes and Tumes), 2000 Keep The Faith 2000, Various Artists ("He's Watching Over You"), 2000 The Mercy Project, Various Artists ("Sanctuary"), 2000 Hear It First New Music Sampler, Various Artists ("Dream"), 2001 Your Love Broke Through: The Worship Songs of Keith Green, Various Artists ("There Is a Redeemer"), 2002 Lost in Wonder: Voices of Worship (features Tumes, Susan Ashton, and Christine Dente from Out of the Grey), 2005 The Wonderful Cross, Various Artists ("In Christ Alone" and "Beautiful Savior (All My Days)"), 2007 90's Ultimate Collection, Various Artists ("For the Glory of Your Name"), 2007 The Worship Lounge, Various Artists ("Your Love Falls Down"), 2008 Worship for the Evening, Various Artists ("For the Glory of Your Name" and "Love Falls Down"), 2008 Be Still & Know: Peaceful Voices for Quite Moments Various Artists ("Christ of Hope"), 2009 Meditate & Worship, Various Artists ("He's Watching Over You"), 2009 No Greater Love (Soundtrack), 2009