Skillet is starting to win mainstream music fans - TriValley Central
“I like to tell people that Skillet is biggest selling band that you’ve never heard of,” said Cooper at his home in Kenosha, Wis. Off stage, Cooper and his wife, Korey, who also plays guitar and keyboards, live far from the spotlight in Kenosha, a southern Wisconsin city of about 100,000 people where Korey grew up. She has family nearby and her father started a church in the... John Cooper helped start the band in Memphis 1996, but they’ve had lineup changes over the years. He joined in 2011, and “Rise” was his first album with the band. They’ve continually won over Christian rock fans, even being nominated in 2005 and 2007 for Grammy Awards in the best rock gospel album category. The song that helped cross them over to the rock charts was “Whispers in the Dark,” from the 2006 album “Comatose. ” They’ve since had several songs on Billboard’s rock chart. “No one really knows why our last album went platinum,” Korey Cooper said. “Rise” made its debut at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart and No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts. Source: www.trivalleycentral.com
