REVIEW: Fernando Ortega “Shadow Of Your Wings” (CMT)
October 17th, 2006 | 
Reviews | Source: ChristianMusicToday.com (110)
There are some who only know Fernando Ortega for his inspirational radio hits dating back to This Bright Hour, his 1997 debut on Myrrh Records. But Ortega’s more fervent fans know him best as an interpreter of hymns, both from seeing him in concert and from his earlier albums. It’s this combination of soft-spoken creativity and tradition that has endeared the singer/songwriter to Christian audiences over the last 15 years.
And it’s a combination that works once again on The Shadow of Your Wings: Hymns and Sacred Songs, his second release for Curb Records. On the surface, this seems like another mere hymns collection, the same sort of barebones arrangements that first established Ortega in the early ’90s. Though at times it is exactly that, Shadow, which also includes a number of original compositions, also stands as one of his most ambitious projects to date. […read more]
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