Philip David Wickham is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and musician from San Diego, California. He has released fourteen worship albums. He has also led worship at Soul Survivor. His single "This is Amazing Grace" has been certified Platinum by the RIAA and it topped the 2014 year-end Christian Airplay chart.
Wickham began a full-time music career by touring California and recording his first album, Give You My World, in 2003. After that release Wickham signed with Simple Records. Wickham released his self-titled label debut in 2006.
Wickham's second release with Simple/INO Records, Cannons, was released in 2007. Cannons was partly inspired by cannon explosions and C. S. Lewis' book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from The Chronicles of Narnia series. Wickham stated in an interview with ChristianityToday.com,
"The album is about how the universe is exploding with the glory of God, and we are compelled to join in with its song." The 10th track from Cannons, "Jesus Lord of Heaven", has been translated into seven different languages.
On August 8, 2008, Wickham released a live worship album, Singalong, recorded at Solid Rock Church in Portland, Oregon with 3,000 in attendance. The album was released as a free download, only available from his website, and received over 8,000 downloads within a week of being released. After the release of Singalong, his self-titled album hit No. 25 on iTunes Store Top Christian Albums sales, two years after its initial release.
In February 2016, Wickham released the first single, "Your Love Awakens Me", from his album, Children of God, which was released later that year. Living Hope, Wickham's seventh full-length studio project, was released in August 2018. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, his first album to do so.
In 2023, Wickham released his next studio album I Believe which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Contemporary Christian Music Album.
Wickham released a new version of
Rich Mullins' 1988 song
Awesome God in April 2025 titled "What an Awesome God". The single became a success and became his first Billboard Hot 100 entry and topped Billboard's Christian Airplay and AC Airplay charts.
Wickham voiced King David in the animated biblical film David, which was released in theaters on December 19, 2025 by Angel Studios.
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: Philip David Wickham
: San Diego, California, U.S.
: 2002-Present