Phil Wickham, Josiah Queen, Brandon Lake Lead 57th GMA Dove Awards

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Phil Wickham, Josiah Queen and Brandon Lake each won three awards at the 57th annual GMA Dove Awards, held October 6 at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena. Tauren Wells hosted the ceremony, which aired on TBN and TBN+.

Phil Wickham, Josiah Queen and Brandon Lake each won three awards at the 57th annual GMA Dove Awards, held October 6 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Tauren Wells hosted the event for the fourth consecutive year. The ceremony aired on TBN and TBN+.

Wickham was named artist of the year, and his album Song of the Saints won worship album of the year. He also won children’s recorded song of the year for “Follow The Light.” In accepting the worship album award, Wickham said, “God has given us reason after reason to worship him.” Tasha Cobbs Leonard won two honors, including contemporary Gospel album of the year for Tasha.

Queen won song of the year and pop/contemporary recorded song of the year, both for “Dusty Bibles,” and recorded music packaging of the year for Mt. Zion. Lake won songwriter of the year (artist) and pop/contemporary album of the year for King of Hearts. His country/roots recorded song of the year went to “The Jesus I Know Now,” written with Lainey Wilson, who performed the song with Lake during the show.

Jamie MacDonald won new artist of the year. Sarai Rivera’s “Tu Voz” was named Spanish Language Recorded Song of the Year.

Amy Grant and Natalie Grant paid tribute to the late singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. The pair sang “How Great Thou Art” and “I Will Always Love You” from the Bridgestone stage, with video of Parton’s past performances shown on screens behind them.