Sorrowful woman marilla ness biography

Hers is the kind of Christian Music success story with a fact-is-stranger-than-fiction edge. A year-old housewife and mother of three goes into a recording studio with a group of amateur musicians.

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The resulting album is released, not by a big company; not by a small company; but by her husband who, when not running his engineering company, can often be found folding inlay cards on the kitchen table. The album is a big success: with several represses, a CD-reissue and bigger sales than most high budget rock gospel albums. So who is this housewife-turned-gospel-star success?

Now there's the real crunch. Few indeed are the Cross Rhythms readers who've heard the name Marilla Ness. It's not just the fact that Marilla 's sweet-toned balladry is light years away from the mosh pit and acid rave. Marilla is a Roman Catholic and it's only in very recent times that the Catholic Church is emerging from its religious music cultural prison.

As Brian Ness, the mastermind behind gospel music's most unlikely cottage industry, Merciful Love Music, explains: Today we're see the barrier between Catholic and Protestant breaking down Marilla ministry is pioneering acceptance to the idea that God can speak to us through the vehicle of music.

Marilla Ness: How a 50 year old housewife became Catholic music's biggest star MARILLA NESS is a singer of praise and worship songs who is helping to further break down the divide .

Marilla was born in Caledon, Northern Ireland and while still a small child moved to the Midlands. She'd been brought up in the Catholic Church but it was in the 70s that Marilla began to look for a deeper experience of God. I realised I wanted more of God. I began to read a lot, the lives of the mystics, and particularly the Bible which I'd never had any encouragement to read in my early church life.

And as I began to pray the Lord Jesus became more and more real to me. The music had started in the early 80s when a prayer group of which Marilla was a member decided they needed someone to lead them in worship. It was that hard, of course, but I persevered.