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Student Sings National Anthem at Greenville Swamp Rabbits Game
[/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sherman.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SwankNationalAnthem.jpg” url=”https://www.facebook.com/ShermanCollegeofChiropractic/videos/10157000717983835/” url_new_window=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”3.0.105″ border_radii=”|5px|5px|5px|5px” animation_style=”zoom” animation_direction=”left” box_shadow_style=”preset1″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.105″]Sherman College third-quarter student Shawn Swank sang the national anthem at the Greenville Swamp Rabbits game on January 12 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena downtown (watch the video here). Swank, a singer since age five and songwriter since 14, has written, recorded and released several contemporary Christian songs, and he anticipates recording two more songs soon. His current releases include “Let God Judge Them” and “Turn to You.”
Swank says he and his brother, Bobby (who was born with spina bifida and paralyzed from the waist down for his whole life) always wanted to record music together. Sadly, Bobby passed away in 2008. But in 2015, Swank stumbled upon a producer who was able to make this dream a reality. “I am a percussionist and I never had a band to back me up,” Swank explained. “This producer could play everything, so I was able to record three songs.”
His first song, “Let God Judge Them,” he says, was meant “to challenge people to stop looking upon others and passing judgment based upon what can be seen.” Swank’s second song, “Turn to You,” was written about the struggles of addiction. “I wanted to share what can happen when an addict submits completely to God and turns the struggle over to Him,” Swank explains. “I was an alcoholic at one point, so I wrote this song based upon my own convictions. Nobody wants to go through the struggle of addiction alone. I just happened to turn my struggle over to a power that was so much greater than myself.”
Swank’s third song (which has not yet been released) is called, “Walk Through,” and it was written in 2006 while his brother was still alive. “He and I were going to sing it together,” Swank said, “but we never got the chance. The chorus says, ‘The gates of heaven are open and I’ll walk through.’ I recorded this song in remembrance of Bobby.”
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