For the third year in a row, multi-platinum selling artist TobyMac took home the BMI award for “Songwriter of the Year”, making it his fourth win in this category.

He shared the honour with Rodney Griffin and Bo Rinehart who also took home awards for the same title. Additionally, the award-winning artist’s hit songs “Get Back Up” and “City On Our Knees ” were recognised for being two of the Top 25 most performed songs on Christian radio over the past year.

In addition to being one of Nashville's top songwriters, TobyMac continues to mentor songwriters and artists such as Jamie Grace, through Gotee Records and is excited for what she is bringing to the music industry:

"Jamie Grace writes, sings and plays her own music. She has a style that can’t be put into a typical label box—a dash of reggae, a dash of folk, a dash of hip hop," says TobyMac.

"I’ve said it a million times, ‘If we’re ever going to be a shining city on a hill, we have to be diverse city.’ Jamie Grace is part of that diverse city. She’s such a natural, beautiful next step for our industry.”

The new female vocalist’s latest single “Hold Me”, also featuring TobyMac, was recently given the spotlight at iTunes as the Discovery Download.

Listeners welcomed Grace with open arms as over 188,000 downloads were received.

TobyMac is currently entertaining crowds in the thousands on the HipRockFunkandSoul Tour. Opening the show are the solo talents of ArchNemesiz, SHONLOCK, Nirva Ready, Toddiefunk, Tim Rosenau, SuperHeRose and Byron “Mr. Talkbox” Chambers otherwise known as the Diverse City Band.

For more information on TobyMac, please visit www.tobymac.com