BEN GLOVER

The music industry is littered with slim chances and near misses. Life savings spent on hopeful demos, delivered in well-designed or at least well-intentioned packages to the desks of highly critical record executives. Yet no matter how "by the book" an artist's résumé might seem, it still takes a special hand behind the scenes to create an open door — and courage to walk through that door into all that lies ahead. That's what it took for 22-year old singer/songwriter Ben Glover to realize his lifelong dream. "I've known since I was eight or nine years old that I wanted to be in Christian music," explains Glover, a Loveland, Colorado, native. "I didn't know what 'ministry' was when I was eight, but I knew I wanted to play Christian music because I loved God. I never really second-guessed myself — I just knew that's what I was going to do with my life."