Origin Gravesend, UK Labels Vineyard Records UK | Years active 1990-Present Record label Vineyard Records UK | |
Occupation(s) Senior Pastor, songwriter, Musician Associated acts Great Big God, Fat and Frantic, Vineyard UK Genres Contemporary worship music, Pop music, Children's music People also search for Esther Alexander, Hannah Foster, James White, Calum Rees | ||
Nigel Hemming is a UK based Christian songwriter and musician known for writing on and producing the Great Big God series and his involvement on the Vineyard Come Now Is the Time to Worship and Hungry albums.
Background
After leaving university Hemming worked as a primary school teacher and as a musician. In the early 1990s, he was the keyboardist for the band Fat and Frantic, and performed at festivals such as Greenbelt and Reading and was part of the line-up when the band reformed in 2011.
Hemming became involved with recording for Vineyard Music UK when Brian Doerksen invited him to play keyboards on the Vineyard UK album Come Now Is the Time to Worship. Following the success of Come Now Is the Time to Worship Doerksen asked Hemming to co-produce Vineyard UK's second album Hungry. Hemming also co-wrote the song "The Rhythm of Heaven" that featured on the Hungry album.
The first Great Big God album was released in 2001. It was called Great Big God after the title song written by Nigel and Jo Hemming. Hemming co-produced the album with Brian Duane and wrote five of its songs.
Since the release of the first Great Big God album Hemming has produced and wrote on all six of the Vineyard Great Big God releases. He has now written over 30 children's worship songs and is widely regarded as having created "one of the most successful series of UK children's albums ever."
Hemming is a Vineyard Churches UK and Ireland pastor. He worked on staff at South Birmingham Vineyard throughout the early 2000s until moving in 2012 to become the senior pastor with his wife Jo at the Winchester Vineyard Church.
Hemming has been a director of Vineyard Music UK since November 2014.