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About Sanctus Real

Toledo, OH rock



Sanctus Real
Pieces Of A Real Heart

Street Date: March 9, 2010

Sanctus Real is:  Matt Hammitt, vocals; Chris
Rohman, guitar; Mark Graalman, drums; Dan
Gartley, bass; and Pete Prevost, guitar.
OVERVIEW

ONLINE / MOBILE

MySpace Plays: 6,124,758 Views: 2,243,933
Friends: 77,903
iLike: 68,176 fans
Twitter: 4,254 followers
Facebook: 18,856 Fans
YouTube: 24,898 channel views, Whatever You’re Doing
video – 352,257 views
Street Team:Part of The Movement 27,869 active members
Band Sites: www.sanctusreal.com, SanctusReality.com

GRAMMY nominated, Dove Award winning Sanctus Real
creates compelling, authentic music.  The band strives to
live up to the meaning of their name: to be Holy (Latin
meaning of “sanctus”) in all they do, but also “real” as
they interact with fans, and as they live out their lives as
Christians.  

Billboard Top 200 Best Seller:  
350,000+ ALBUMS scanned  
390,000+ digital SINGLES scanned

Digital Sales:   
“Forgiven” Digital Track: 21,457downloads

Discography
2010 Pieces Of A Real Heart Sparrow Records
2008 We Need Each Other Sparrow Records
2006 The Face of Love Sparrow Records
2004 Fight The Tide Sparrow Records
2002 SAY IT LOUD  Sparrow Records

Awards and Nominations
2009 GRAMMY Nomination for We Need Each Other

2006 “The Face of Love” wins MTVu’s “Freshman 5” contest

2006 R&R names Sanctus Real the Most Played CHR radio
Christian artist of 2006; “I’m Not Alright” Tops CRW Yearend
Rock Chart

2005 Dove Award for Fight The Tide (8 total career Dove
Nominations)

2004 CCM readers name Sanctus Real “Best New Artist”

2004 ChristianMusicToday.com names Sanctus Real one of
year’s Best Bands, Fight The Tide among Best Albums, Matt
Hammitt among the Best Male Vocalists.

2004 R&R names Sanctus Real the Most Played Rock radio
Christian artist of 2004
!"Forgiven radio single : #7 National Christian Audience
Chart, #10 AC Monitored, #4 AC Indicator, #4 CHR
!"7 #1’s at CHR plus 7 Top 5 singles. 3 AC Top 20 singles.  
#1 Singles    Top 5 Singles
Forgiven   Forgiven
Beautiful Day   Say It Loud
Everything About You  Audience of One
Fight Song   Alone
I'm Not Alright   Things Like You
Don't Give Up   Closer
We Need Each Other  The Face of Love


Sanctus has aggressively toured the US for over 10 years,
and has developed a strong, established touring base. They
have consistently played all the top US festivals and are a
mainstay at many of the major festivals.  

Touring History
2010
!"Winter/Spring headline tour with Addison Road, Above the
Golden State, Me In Motion and Speaker Sammy Adebiyi
2009
!"Fall Headlining tour with Phil Wickham & Addison Road
!"Co-Headlining Spring tour with Matthew West (1100 avg)
2008    
!"Spring Tour w/ THIRD DAY (35 cities)
!"Fall Headlining tour with Tenth Ave. North (650 avg)
2007    
!"Winter Jam tour (35 cities, 8,000+/ night)
!"Fall Tour with Steven Curtis Chapman (30 dates)

2006 & before:  Toured with Jeremy Camp, Hawk Nelson,
The Afters, Relient K, Pillar, Festival Con Dios, and many
more.


Management: Dan Spencer / Matt Balm  
(615) 279-3695, dan@flatoutentertainment.com

Booking:  Mark Claassen, Elite Talent Agency, LLC. 615-
983-6600, www.Eta-Live.com  

Publicity:  Rick Hoganson, Hoganson Media, 615-459-
9870, Hoganson@comcast.net