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Winner of America's most prestigious musical Awardâ€"the Grammy®â€"Australian born REBECCA ST. JAMES has throughout the late '90's until present been considered to be a major defining female voice in contemporary Christian Music.

With the dawning of 2005, her groundbreaking album project Pray achieved RIAA gold record statusâ€"following in the footsteps of the previously gold certified RSJ album God.

In January 2005, she was again named "Favorite Female Artist" in Contemporary Christian Music by the more than 27,000 votes cast by readers of CCM Magazine, considered the flagship publication of the Christian genre. She repeated with "Best Female Artist of 2005" awards less than a month later with the more than 100,000 readers of Campus Life Magazine, and the hip Christian music website destination JesusFreakHide-Out.com. With sales of her music soaring around the globe, her signature blend of modern pop/rock sensibilities and lyrics of unwavering devotion, has blazed straight to the heart of an entire generation. Along the road of more than 200 concert dates a year, her path has led to 17 Top 10 singles--#9 of which reached the #1 spot on the charts.

In April 2004 she won yet another Dove Award--Christian music's highest honorâ€"for her participation in the "Special Event Album Of The Year"â€"the rock opera musical "!Hero"â€"in which Rebecca played "Maggie"â€" a modern day Mary Magdalene in the unique 23 member cast production set in the bleak streets of post modern New York.

CRW Magazine named Rebecca to the list of the "50 Most Influential People in Contemporary Music." Her book, "Wait For Me," now in a 9th printing reached the #1 spot on the prestigious CBA (Young Adult) book chart in 2003, with Rebecca's passionate, and often controversial, challenge to young people to "stand strong" with her on issues of sexual purity. She is closed out 2004 with the much anticipated release of her new book, "SHE,"on Tyndale. An impactful "where the rubber meets the road guidebook," for women of her generation, in "SHE" Rebecca gives a controversial and impassioned voice for a modern womanhood based on a return to biblical principles. The "teen" edition of the bookâ€"SHE TEENâ€"launched in September of this yearâ€"reaching the #1 spot on the Young Adult CBA chart its' first week of release. Her latest album If I Had One Chance To Tell You Something will be released in Novemberâ€"Thanksgiving Week by EMI. One of the most anticipated album releases of the year, it contains Rebecca's trademarked passion for unique self-written musicâ€"from rock and pop to symphonyâ€"it's music that sonically embraces her passionate lyrics of devotion and praise to God.

Looking ahead into early '06 --Rebecca will tour beginning in February in support of her new musicâ€"this time dynamically paired on the billing with her close friendsâ€"BarlowGirl. On April 5th she will co-host the Gospel Music Awards in Nashville with Kirk Franklin.

In the midst of all the acclaim, Rebecca St. James remains true to her mission. "I'm not called to be a star," said the articulate young Aussie in a major media interview. She openly admitted she considers her worldwide acceptance a ministry rather than a career. "God has called me to be a servant" said Rebecca.