Talbot band live biography

Born May 8, 1954, in Oklahoma City, OK; son of Dick and Jimmie Margaret Talbot; married Nancy, 1971 (divorced, 1978); children: Amy Noel. Religion: Catholic. Singer, guitarist, banjo player, and lay brother in the Order of Secular Franciscans.

At ten, began playing in regional bands with older brother, Terry; by 12, had become a seasoned rhythm guitarist and vocalist; member of country-rock band Mason Proffit, 1969-1973; performed Christian music, 1976; released first album as a monk, The Lord's Supper, 1979; has performed with the London Chamber Orchestra; founded The Little Portion Hermitage, Eureka Springs, AR.

"My music changed radically when I became Catholic...," John Michael Talbot, a Third Order Franciscan friar who has sold more than two million records, told L.

Katherine Cook in the Christian Century. "That experience ... put me in touch with a broader spectrum of artistic experience." When the singer, who in his teens had played guitar and banjo with the country-rock ban