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"Audrey Nicole Assad" (born July 1, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and contemporary Christian music artist, she was born in Secaucus, New Jersey to a Virginian mother and a Syrian father and was raised in a Plymouth Brethren household. Assad grew up in a religious household but listened to secular music growing up through her mother's influence, including The Carpenters, James Taylor and Celine Dion, as well as French and Middle Eastern ... music from her dad's influence. Later she discovered and began listening to Christian music such as the Newsboys, Nichole Nordeman and Cindy Morgan. When she was 2 she started playing the piano, but it wasn't until she was 19 when she began writing and performing her own music. Assad played in local Florida venues with a style she described as folky and "average girl with a guitar/piano stuff". Her current style is a mix of religious and non-religious themed songs that draw from her Catholic faith as well as literary references from her love of reading literature and poetry. See more [+]