User:Bernie Herms

Producer, Composer, Songwriter, Grammy nominee. These are just a few words to describe, GMA’s 2009 Producer of the year and ASCAP’s 2007 Songwriter of the Year, Bernie Herms. His success in each of these areas has led to work with wellknown artists such as Brad Paisley, Jackie Evancho, The Canadian Tenors, The Military Wives, Casting Crowns, CeCe Winans, Natalie Grant, Sammy Kershaw, and Steven Curtis Chapman. In 2010, his work gained 8 nominations at the 2010 GMA Dove Awards, more than any other nominee, including nods for, Producer of the Year and Song of the Year. The 2011 Dove Awards granted nominations in the categories of Producer of the Year and Pop Contemporary Album of the Year. The 2012 Dove Awards came with a nomination and a win for Herms in the Inspirational Album of the Year category for the highly respected album, The Story.

Herms penned the multi week number one Casting Crowns hits “Praise You In This Storm” and “East to West” and his most recent song with Casting Crowns “Until the Whole World Hears,” reached #1 in January of 2010 and spent 34 weeks on the charts. Herms recently signed a production and publishing deal with the renowned producer David Foster and Universal Music Publishing. Herms’s “Already There” from Come to the Well (AC/CHR) reached No. 7 on the AC-Indicator chart, No. 10 on the AC-Monitored chart, and No. 12 on the Billboard National Christian Audience chart.