Steven Curtis Chapman was born in Paducah, Kentucky on November 21, 1962. He is a songwriter and a Contemporary Christian musician. He has won five Grammy awards and 56 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. He and his wife Mary Beth Chapman founded Show Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to caring for the world's forgotten and abandoned children by providing financial assistance to families wishing to adopt, as well as increasing awareness of the orphan crisis and funneling resources to orphans both domestically and internationally. They also write the Shaoey and Dot series of children's picture books. They have six children, three which were adopted from China.