Michael W. Smith has garnered twenty-eight number one hits, three platinum records, eleven gold records, two Grammy Awards, and forty Dove Awards. In 1999, he became the first Christian artist to be honored with ASCAP's Golden Note Award for lifetime achievement in songwriting. He is the author of the bestsellers Friends Are Friends Forever, Your Place in This World, and This Is Your Time, and founded Rocketown, a youth club ministry in Nashville. He and his wife, Debbie, have five children.