Birth name David John Hensman Record label Big Sky Music Name Dave Hensman | Labels Big Sky Music Instruments Vocals, Guitar | |
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Website www.davidjohnhensman.com Role Singer ยท davidjohnhensman.com Albums Find Me/Blessed Are the Lost Ones, These Are the Days Genres Contemporary Christian music, Contemporary worship music | ||
David John Hensman is a Canadian Christian singer-songwriter, minister, businessperson and politician from Mission, British Columbia, Canada.
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Musical career
Hensman began writing and performing his own songs during the late 1970s and through the 1980s with three different bands: Fish Tank, Last Harvest Band and the Alpha Omega Band. The latter being a Christian rock ministry focused on evangelism.
His most notable musical contributions began in 2006 when he released the album These Are The Days. It received some critical acclaim and was nominated for the "Praise and Worship Album of the Year" by the Canadian Gospel Music Association and "Gospel Recording of the Year" by the East Coast Music Association.
Then in 2009 he released the album Find Me/Blessed Are The Lost Ones. The album cover design won the Covenant Award for "Album Design of the Year" and two other nominations: "Praise and Worship Song of the Year" (You Alone) and "Modern Worship Song of the Year" (Author of our Faith). The album was nominated "Gospel Recording of the Year" by the East Coast Music Association.
Albums
Songs in other projects
Business career
He purchased Teamwork Property Management in 2003, a company located in Abbotsford, British Columbia that provides management services to Strata Corporations in the Fraser Valley.
Political career
In 2001 Hensman ran for political office in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows district during the British Columbia general election as a member of the Unity Party. He lost to Ken Stewart the BC Liberals. In 2012 he became a councillor for the city of Mission