

While they were trying to gain a foothold in secular music, the Mazzei family was asked by a priest, the late Fr. Mario Del Signore, to sing at his Christmas Day Mass. Thus began their debut into the realm of religious music. No longer were there restrictions on their sound and harmonies. They finally felt at home. The various musical backgrounds of their past are now applied to their own Contemporary Christian Music compositions. Some examples are the "pop" feel to the songs Father Forgive Them This Heart is Closed, What Kind of Love is This and I Am With You Always, the "country" flavor of You, and the contemporary style of In Principio and Sanctus. Even old favorites such as Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art have been given a new identity. Their arrangement of the Italian folk song to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nome Dolcissimo, (given to them by Fr. Mario), is done in their own style; likewise, the classic Pachelbel's Canon in D.