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Larry Robert Hover (February 1, 1951 - ) is an American Christian recording artist, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is known as the Storyteller, using stories in song to illustrate Bible truths and principles.

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Early life

Family

Discography

Select discography

Other writings

External links

References

Early life

Larry Hover was born in Detroit, Michigan, the middle child of seven born to Lawrence Theodore (Pete) Hover (December 26, 1920 - October 9, 2009) and Margaret Ann (Peggy) Hover (February 16, 1923 - ). Pete worked at Service Bureau Corporation (a subsidiary of IBM) for his entire 60+ year career. Peggy was a mother and homemaker.

Larry began studying guitar at the age of seven. At fourteen, demonstrating a strong aptitude for music, he was hired at the Mount Clemens Conservatory of Music in Mount Clemens, Michigan as a guitar instructor.

At seventeen, he began his performance career playing banjo in sing-a-long pizza parlors in Detroit, Harper Woods and Traverse City, Michigan with his partner Ron Prowse on the honky-tonk piano. He later worked a variety of nightclubs and bars, playing folk music with guitarist partner Bill Jameson.

In 1973, Larry had a conversion experience, becoming a born-again Christian. The following year, he was invited to assume the worship leader position at the Fisherman's Net Church in Utica, Michigan, to fill the vacancy left by its departing leader, guitarist Dale Hurt. Larry remained in that position until his move out-of-state five years later.

In 1976, Larry was asked to handle the Master of Ceremonies duties at Jesus '76, a three-day, outdoor Christian music festival held in London, Ontario, Canada (a sort of Christian Woodstock). Due to the success of the event (the crowd numbering nearly fifteen thousand souls), the festival was repeated in 1977 and 1978, with Larry reassuming his Master of Ceremonies duties at both events.

At that time, Larry began writing exclusively Christian music. His song Everything Under the Son was adopted as the Jesus '76 theme song. It came to the attention of Andre Crouch, one of the featured performers at the festival, who later signed the song to his Lexicon Music catalog.

Having moved to Southern California in 1978, Larry worked as the "warm-up" performer at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, a large non-denominational church which hosted Friday night evangelistic concerts featuring many of the top Christian performers of that time. Thousands of young people would attend each week. Larry performed this duty for nearly two years (1979 - 1980).

Since 2001, Larry writes and performs exclusively original Christian music. He is best known as the Storyteller, as most of his musical compositions relate Christian truths or lessons through parables in song.

Family

In 1972, Larry married Lois Elaine Humphrey in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. In 1976, their daughter Leah Rene was born. After nearly sixteen years of marriage, Larry and Lois divorced in 1988.

A year later, in 1989, Larry married Teresa Jean Newcom of Burbank, California. They have no children together.

Discography

CDs

Storyteller 2005 Deville Records

Delivery Boy 2009  Red Letter Records

EPs

Mr. Clownie 2007  (Recorded live at the Redford Theatre, Redford, Michigan)

Tough Times 2013  Red Letter Records

Select discography

Larry's music has appeared on a number of other artist's recordings including Christian recording artist Pam Thum, Jill Phillips (later Jill Detroit), and The Bells (a Polydor Records pop group from Montreal, Canada, whose biggest hit Stay Awhile charted at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart). Larry's song Everything Under the Son was featured as the theme song on a compilation album for Jesus '76, a three-day outdoor Christian festival in London, Ontario, Canada. The song was later signed by Andre Crouch's Lexicon Music. To date, Larry has not recorded the song himself.

Other writings

In 2011, inspired by the pseudo-documentary film Religulous featuring comedian Bill Maher, Larry wrote a non-fiction work entitled ''I'm Supposed to Believe What? Answers to the "Religulous Questions of Comedian Bill Maher. He discussed his work with nationally syndicated radio talk show host Bob Dutko on The Bob Dutko Show'', aired in 2012.  The book was never publicly released, Larry considering his writings to be less for public consumption and more of a personal communication between himself and Mr. Maher.  Selected portions of the book were, for a short time, made available for download on Larry's official website.

External links

Official Website www.larryhover.com

References

Pam Thum, on her album Bless This Day, Shalom Records Catalog #SH-1145 Side One, recorded Larry's song Everything Under the Son. The Bells, on a single, Polydor Records Catalog #PD-15036 (POL-30363) recorded Larry's song You, You, You. www.redletterrecords.com Official website www.larryhover.com As record producer - CD liner notes - Storyteller, 2005, Delivery Boy 2009, Tough Times 2013 www.fishermansnet.org For Bob Dutko interview, see the MEDIA section of www.larryhover.com ''I'm Supposed to Believe What? Answers to the Religulous Questions of Comedian Bill Maher'' published in 2011 by R.H. Publishing, Troy Michigan

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