Dan Bremnes
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Daniel Jobiah Bremnes (born May 11, 1983) is a Canadian Christian musician, guitarist, and drummer. He has released four studio albums, Your Strength (2010), Where the Light Is (2015), Wherever I Go (2019), and Into the Wild (2022), and four extended plays. He is signed with Curb Records.
Early life
Bremnes was born as Daniel Jobiah Bremnes, on May 11, 1983, in Kamloops, British Columbia, to a pastor father, Norvil Bremnes, and to a mother, Lillis Bremnes, who owned a bed and breakfast, Amazing Acres. He has two siblings, Darcon and Darla. The Bremnes family moved to Salmon Arm, British Columbia in 1989, when his father established Living Waters Community Church, where Norvil was the pastor until January 2014. Bremnes' mother died in an automobile accident on September 14, 2006. Bremnes attended Salmon Arm Secondary School.
Music career
His music career commenced in 2010, with his album, Your Strength, that was independently released. He then released two independent singles, "Hear Your Voice" in 2012 and "After All" in 2013. During this time, Bremnes released an extended play, Light My Way, which was independently released on September 25, 2012. The extended play and singles got him Covenant Awards at the 35th Annual Awards in 2013 for Male Vocalist of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "This Life". The subsequent year, Bremnes was awarded at the 36th Annual Awards for having the Pop/Contemporary Song of the Year and Recorded Song of the Year for "Beautiful", where he got the Male Vocalist of the Year along with Artist of the Year. He signed to Sparrow Records and Capitol CMG, where he released another single, "Beautiful", in 2014, along with an extended play on April 14, 2015, Where the Light Is. The song, "Beautiful", charted at a peak of No. 17 on the Billboard magazine Christian Songs chart. This was the precursor to his first studio album, Where the Light Is, released by Sparrow Records on June 9, 2015. In 2016, his recording contract was cancelled by Capitol. Bremnes continued to work on music, eventually signing a record deal with Curb Records and releasing his third studio album, Wherever I Go in 2019. The title track was released as a single and peaked at No. 19 on the US Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| US Christ | ||
| Your Strength | Released: January 6, 2010 Label: Independent Format: CD, LP, digital download | — |
| Where the Light Is | Released: June 9, 2015 Label: Sparrow/Capitol CMG/sixstepsrecords Format: CD, LP, digital download | 47 |
| Wherever I Go | Released: April 5, 2019 Label: Word Format: CD, digital download | — |
| Into the Wild | Released: June 17, 2022 Label: Word Format: CD, digital download | — |
EPs
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Christ | US Heat | ||
| Light My Way | Released: September 25, 2012 Label: Independent Format: CD, LP, digital download | — | — |
| Where the Light Is | Released: April 14, 2015 Label: Sparrow/Capitol CMG Format: CD, LP, digital download | — | — |
| Wherever I Go | Released: September 7, 2018 Label: Bremnes Ventures Inc. Format: CD, Digital download, streaming | 40 | 10 |
| Wherever I Go: Acoustic Sessions | Released: July 17, 2020 Label: Curb | Word Entertainment Format: CD, Digital download, streaming | — | — |
| The Hero | Released: June 20, 2025 Label: Curb | Word Entertainment Format: CD, Digital download, streaming | — | — |
| The Villain | Released: October 24, 2025 Label: Curb | Word Entertainment Format: CD, Digital download, streaming | — | — |
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Christ | US Christ Air. | US Christ AC | |||
| "Beautiful" | 2014 | 17 | 14 | 12 | Where the Light Is |
| "Where the Light Is" | 2015 | — | 39 | — | |
| "In His Hands" | — | 49 | — | ||
| "Jingle All the Way" | 49 | 24 | 17 | non-album singles | |
| "Majesty (Here I Am)" | 2017 | — | — | — | |
| "Going Together" | 2018 | — | — | — | Wherever I Go |
| "Up Again" | 16 | 12 | 14 | ||
| "Wherever I Go" | 19 | 12 | 11 | ||
| "Thunder" | 2019 | — | — | — | |
| "Weakness" | — | — | — | ||
| "Searching for Something" | — | — | — | ||
| "Call Your Name" | 2025 | — | 32 | — | The Villain |