Every once and awhile, I wake up with a song in my head and I just can’t get it out. This morning’s song happened to be none other than Marcos Witt’s infamous “Tu Y Yo”.As amazing as the song was 20 years ago, the one thing I can’t get out of my head is the well-known fact that all Cristianos everywhere in the world today have a complete adoration for Marcos Witt. He is basically the Hispanic version of Michael W. Smith meets Carman meets Rick Warren all rolled into one. We don’t care how much weight he gains or loses, because at the end of the day, he’s still our favorite artist of all time. Whether his songs are in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, we will still buy his albums and sing his songs at every single service we have. Marcos has literally filled stadiums all across the world, has sold over 10,000,000 albums, and still manages to be one of the pastors at the largest church in America!
No one can hate on Marcos, because before there was Jesus Adrian Romero, Danilo Montero, or Marco Barrientos, there was Marcos doing “Un Adorador”. He literally invented the electric piano that we use in every Spanish worship song today. I challenge you to find a Spanish church who has never done a Marcos Witt song. (You won’t find it.)
I have to reemphasize again that Cristianos looooove Marcos! We don’t care if he’s trying to rap alongside Funky or doing an English crossover with Cindy Cruse, Cristianos just can’t get enough of him. He is cross-generational, cross-denominational, and cross-cultural and he will probably be the first Hispanic president of the United States by 2020. (Marcos, if you happen to be reading this, I hope that you let me have one of the 50 Latin Grammy’s that you own and put me on your Presidential Cabinet.)
So whether Marcos is doing fan favorites such as “Enciende Una Luz”, “Tu Fidelidad” or every church’s Missions Sunday favorite “Somos El Pueblo De Dios”, he is still the King of Hispanic Christian Music. In fact, every time I write the name Marcos Witt in this blog, I get about 50 million more hits. (This website might just shut down because of all the traffic…)
Marcos Witt will be around for generations to come and his influence will always be known to Cristianos. So in order to celebrate the awesomeness of Marcos Witt, I have embedded my absolute favorite Marcos song of all time, “Gracias”, below. Hope you enjoy!
Not that this is important, but I thought Marcos Witt was an Anglo. I don’t know where I heard this, but isn’t he a missionary’s kid or something and that is how he learned Spanish? I guess I could Google it. LOL.
BTW, I met his sister at LABI when I was staying there during Hurricane Rita.
Hmm…..you raise a good point. I think we consider him an honorary Mexican cause he grew up there…
I thought he was an honorary Mexican… At least in my book he is. Habla mejor espanol que half my church! Lol.
true dat…but Juan Carlos Alvarado was doing it long before Marcos Witt…But he probably did much more to popularize it because JCA didn’t have his name on the earliest stuff he did for Palabra En Accion. And yeah…Marcos is an honorary mexican hahaha