Nicole C. Mullen
Biography
Nicole Coleman Mullen (born June 26, 1967) is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mullen wrote her first song at the age of 12. She recorded her first solo album, Don’t Let Me Go, in 1991 with the independent label Frontline Records. Mullen continued her singing-songwriting-choreography career in the 1990s, singing backup for Michael W. Smith and for the Newsboys, writing for Jaci Velasquez, and working as a dancer/choreographer with Amy Grant. She also provides backup vocals in the music video at the end of the VeggieTales program, Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space!. She was signed to Word Records in 1998 by VP of A&R Brent Bourgeois.
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Mullen established a mentor group for girls called “The Baby Girls Club”. She and her former husband, David A. Mullen, were youth leaders in their local church, and participated in Across America summer camp for inner city youth. Mullen is active with the International Needs Network Ghana, an organization that works to free Trokosi slaves in Ghana.
Mullen is the only black artist to win the Dove Award for Song of the Year, in 1998. Her 2001 album, Talk About It, was her fourth album. The album includes the single and music video "Call On Jesus." Mullen won a 2001 Dove Award for Songwriter of the Year. In 2002 she released a Christmas album, Christmas in Black and White.
In 2004 Mullen released Everyday People, a studio album she produced with her ex-husband David Mullen, Tommy Sims, James "Big Jim" Wright, Andrew Ramsey and Shannon Sanders. It was released on September 14, 2004 on Curb Records, peaking at No. 41 on the Billboard Heatseakers chart on October 9, 2004 and No. 6 on their Top Gospel Albums chart on October 2, 2004.
Sharecropper's Seed, Volume 1 is the sixth studio album from Mullen. The album was released through Word, Warner, and Curb on April 3, 2007. "Convinced" was released as the lead single from the album, and peaked at No. 27. "One Touch (Press)" was released as the second single from the album. It was featured on the compilation, WOW Gospel 2008.
Mullen released the album A Dream to Believe In, Vol. 2 in July 2008, followed by the album Captivated, three years later. In October 2013 she released an album of hymns, Crown Him: Hymns Old and New. Her most recent album, Like Never Before, was released at the beginning of 2018. Mullen was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2011.
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