Mitch McVicker

Mitch McVicker is a Contemporary Christian Music artist who attended Friends University in Wichita, KS in the early 1990's, and it was there that Mitch met and befriended the late Rich Mullins.

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After graduating from college in May of 1995, Mitch moved to New Mexico and helped Rich on the Navajo Indian Reservation, where Rich taught music, eventually touring and writing songs with Mullins. With Rich and Rich's longtime friend and song collaborator Beaker, Mitch co-wrote the musical The Canticle of the Plains, based on the life and teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi. Mitch also sang lead vocals on four songs of this project, completed in the fall of 1996, There You Are, Heaven Is Waiting, Things Even Angels and You Are All.

Related Topics:
Beaker - The Canticle of the Plains - Saint Francis of Assisi

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Mitch began recording his first solo project in the summer of 1997, a self-titled album, with the help of Rich Mullins and Mark Robertson. But tragically, on the night of September 19, 1997, while travelling on Interstate 39 in IL, enroute to a benefit concert in Wichita, McVicker was seriously injured in the auto accident that took the life of his close friend, Rich Mullins.

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After several weeks in intensive care at Saint Francis hospital in Peoria, IL, Mitch was transfered to a rehab hospital in Topeka, KS, his hometown. Mitch was unable to resume work on his debut album for several months, but eventually released the album in 1998. Two songs off the album earned airplay across CCM stations across the country, Take Hold of Me and Here and Now.

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Also in 1998, Rich's last songwriting effort, the Jesus Record, was released, which included My Deliver, written by both Mullins and McVicker, earning Mitch a Dove Award for song of the Year, 1999, which he shared with Rich.

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Subsequent recordings include Chasing the Horizon, released in 2000, and Without Looking Down, released in 2002.

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