God's Music

Kurt Carr is an American gospel music composer and performer. While living in the city of Hartford, Connecticut he served as Minister of Music at The First Baptist Church of Hartford located at the time on Greenfield Street. Kurt credits Archbishop LeRoy Bailey as a positive influence in starting his professional gospel career, as Archbishop Bailey enabled Carr to perform his own music during church services

Kurt Carr was born in the early 1960’s in Hartford, CT, where he grew up in a family who believed in Jesus, but were not deeply involved in church. At the age of 13 Kurt found himself being drawn to the church more and more. He became an active member in the church’s music department. At the age of 17 he realized that he was being called to do something even higher with his life. After High School, Kurt entered into the music program at the University of Connecticut, where he studied classical music and earned a Fine Arts degree. From there he began to go further and further with his music.Kurt Carr is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity,Inc.