Kevin Prosch is an American gospel musician. He plays a wide variety of musical instruments including the guitar, mandolin, keys, piano, and a range of more exotic world music instruments, along with incorporating electronics.

Early Life

According to a 1993 article:

Kevin grew up in a home in Birmingham, Alabama where racism and the vilification of the black community as a semi-human sub-species was taught with passion by his racist father. On one level young Kevin and his brother Tres had a great start in life - their father was a millionaire diagnostician. The Prosch family lived in palatial surroundings in the richest part of Birmingham. But beyond the luxurious patios and Jacuzzi's was hidden a dark web of hatred and paranoia which was to burst into national media attention in 1971 when the authorities uncovered a huge cache of arms in Dr Prosch's home. Explained Kevin, "My father had a vision of the blacks taking over America, so he started an arsenal. I was 12/13 years old when I went through the experience. I was not able to leave the home for two years and was in a sort of a torture situation as a child, physical pain, emotional abuse. I was taught to hate the blacks. I had to march around the home saying things about blacks. There were weekly beatings. My life was terrible."'^[1]

Career

His songs include “Harp In My Heart", “Highest Praise”, “So Come”, "Show Your Power" and "Love Is All You Need". Prosch has collaborated with a number of other musicians including Bryn Haworth. Prosch's 1995 album, Tumbling Ground, was produced by Ethan Johns. He composed the popular worship song "He brought me to his banqueting table (His banner over me)", based on the Song of Solomon.^[2]

He also produces Christian music artists under his own label "Third Ear Music". Prosch served as the worship pastor with John Wimber in California in the early years of the Vineyard Church movement .

In 1999 he stepped down from his leadership position at a local church after admitting to having "committed adultery and used my gifting to manipulate the women involved...for my own selfish gain and personal pleasure." Writing to the local Christian community, in an open letter, he expressed his sorrow to his ex-wife, family, and friends for "disappointing and hurting you."^[3] In 2002 he was "restored to public ministry three years after admitting to a string of affairs."^[4]

More recently he was senior associate pastor of More Church in Amarillo, Texas until early 2013.^[5] Prosch now resides in the Kansas City, Missouri area.