Search - Artist/Band: Fernando Ortega

• Name: Fernando Ortega
• Decades Active: 2000
• Genre: Gospel
• Styles: CCM, Contemporary Christian, Gospel
• Moods: Sentimental, Calm/Peaceful, Dreamy, Relaxed

Title	Release
Christmas Songs W	10/21/2008
Shadow of Your Wings/Fernando Ortega W	07/29/2008
The Shadow of Your Wings: Hymns and Sacred Songs W	10/24/2006
Beginnings W	02/25/2005
Fernando Ortega W	08/10/2004
Hymns of Worship W	02/11/2003
Hymns and Meditations WA	01/01/2002
Meditations of the Heart WA	01/01/2002
Meditations of the Heart Encore WA	01/01/2002
Night of Your Return WA	01/01/2002
Storm WA	2002
Camino Largo	2001
Home	02/29/2000
Give Me Jesus	1999
The Breaking of the Dawn WA	10/27/1998
This Bright Hour WA	02/03/1998
In a Welcome Field	1991

Classically trained as a pianist but also steeped in the Hispanic tradition of his New Mexico homeland, gospel singer/songwriter Fernando Ortega recorded more than a half-dozen LPs for various labels before signing to Myrrh/Word in 1997, as part of a Christian musical renaissance which saw a variety of musical traditions entering the liturgies of mainline churches. An aficionado of American and irish folk as well as the Spanish-oriented music he grew up with, Ortega also studied early music and hymns as part of his education. He recorded on his own for several years before signing to Myrrh, and worked with producer John Andrew Schreiner for his major-label debut, 1998's This Bright Hour. Home followed two years later. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide