威廉·麦克道尔的 music career is filled with family, church, 和 plenty of professional accolades. He leads his congregation in worship every Sunday as the lead pastor of Orl和o's 更深团契教会, makes regular trips across the world to promote 和 perform his worship music, 优先考虑他的婚姻和五个孩子. 威廉的六张专辑获得了多芬奖和恒星奖, 格莱美奖提名, 美国作曲家协会歌曲创作奖, 公告牌音乐奖提名, 并登上了公告牌福音音乐排行榜的榜首. He was also named one of Billboard's Top Ten Gospel 艺术ists of the decade. 他对音乐的热爱，加上他的 录音艺术 和 娱乐业务 degrees from 满帆, helped him earn the success he's enjoying today.

"I would say that music developed an interest in me," William states. His family was involved in music at church, 和 he started singing in the choir at just 10 years old. William continued participating in gospel music as he grew up in Cincinnati, 然后一个高中朋友告诉了他《og体育》.

威廉很感兴趣, but he decided to try a four-year degree program at a different college first. 他很快意识到《og体育》更适合他.

"There's not another institution like [满帆] anywhere in the world… It was very, very clear that if you wanted to excel in the industry 和 be exposed to the best of the best, 还有经验丰富的人, 你必须来这里,他说.

He signed up for 满帆's 录音艺术 program 和 earned his associate degree in 2000, then he made the switch from 满帆 student to 满帆 employee. William worked in the school's 招生 和 Career Development departments, but after a few years he decided to invest in his music dreams 和 pursue a second 满帆 degree in 娱乐业务.

“我心里有些东西, 让我来到满帆的初衷, 和 I knew that I needed another layer of equipping [with the 娱乐业务 degree] to get to where I wanted to be,威廉解释道. The program gave more depth to reading that he'd done on his own 和 instilled the confidence he needed to make the leap to professional music.

在威廉获得第二个学位之后, 他建立了“产房”录音室, 举办过几个格莱美获奖项目. He closed the studio to establish 更深团契教会. He also started recording his worship music 和 released his first album, 当我们敬拜时, 2009年初.

威廉在第一次出狱后就开始工作了. 2011年，他又推出了《OG官网》， 隐瞒什么 in 2013, 复兴之声 2016年， 复兴之声2 in 2017, all of which debuted at number one on the Billboard gospel music charts. William built on that momentum 和 told the story of 更深团契教会 with a book called 它的发生 以及他广受好评的2019年专辑， 呼求:现场敬拜体验. The album added to William's list of number one Billboard gospel music chart debuts 和 it received a Billboard 音乐 Award nomination.

说威廉很忙是轻描淡写的. He juggles fatherhood, church leadership, 和 his music career every day. He's traveled to nearly 50 countries, 和 one year he took almost 190 different flights. 然而，最难忘的日子仍然是意想不到的.

"I was hosting an event here in the city called A Red Carpet Christmas, where I had invited a bunch of A-list people in the gospel field,威廉回忆道. "So a bunch of Grammy-nominated gospel folks coming together to do this televised event to raise money for Feeding Children Everywhere. We were at the sound check 和 the head of my label called 和 said 'Congratulations on your Grammy nomination [for 隐瞒什么我不知道他们在考虑我, 我根本没想过格莱美奖, 但那是我被提名的那天."

William didn't map out his gospel career, but his dedication to his craft paid off. He says that other aspiring musicians need to go all in to make it in the music industry.

"This particular career is not one that people can succeed in without commitment. That's both in school 和 after school; you have to be one hundred percent committed… Everybody's path is different, 但如果你要继续追查下去, 你必须全身心投入."