How Our Church Music Became Merengue, Gospel, and Spanish-Christian Pop
Tastes and People Changed at My Church In Modesto. I Learned To Change With Them.
My path to becoming a choir director and Christian recording artist began with a move from Guatemala to Modesto, California. It was 1992, I was 9 years old, and my grandmother had died. My grandfather, who was living in the United States, moved my mother and me to Modesto. Before long, we were worshipping at Revival Center, the Spanish branch (what we call a “daughter work”) of the United Pentecostal Church in Modesto. At the time, the church had about 20 to 25 members.
During those early years of the church, …
