NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Ed Cash won songwriter of the year honors and his composition "Made to Worship" was named song of the year Saturday at BMI's 2008 Christian Music Awards.
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(Photo: BMI / File)Prolific producer and songwriter Ed Cash was saluted by BMI during the annual Christian Music Awards with the Song and Songwriter of the Year Honors.
Broadcast Music Inc., a performing rights organization, recognizes the writers and publishers of the most-performed songs on Christian radio and television during the previous year.
Awards were presented in five categories: Christian rock, contemporary Christian, inspirational, urban gospel and Southern gospel.
Cash won the songwriter award for "Made to Worship," "Holding Onto You" and "How Can I Keep from Singing."
The night's other big winners included gospel luminary Donald Lawrence; contemporary Christian star Aaron Shust; genre-bender tobyMac; Christian rock outfit Red's Jasen Rauch and Anthony Armstrong; urban gospel singer Kirk Franklin; Jars of Clay members Dan Haseltine, Charlie Lowell, Steve Mason and Matt Odmark; and Mark Hall, the 2007 Christian songwriter of the year.
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