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Pastor and gospel singer Norman Hutchins was born in Dover, Delaware, on September 27, 1962. He began preaching at the age of eight and was ordained pastor in Laurel (Delaware) at the age of twelve. When he was nineteen, he moved to Pennsylvania with his first wife Michelle to preach at the Hope Church of God in Christ (COGIC), before moving to Los Angeles and then back to Delaware, where he founded Frontline Ministries with his second wife Karen. His musical career began in 1992 for the Sparrow label with a debut album of the same name, and continued with Don't Stop Playing (1993) and several other chart-topping gospel recordings for JDI Records and Impact Records, including Nobody But You (#7 in 1999), Battlefield (#9 in 1999), Emmanuel (#6 in 2001), Spontaneous Praise, Vol. 1 (#9 in 2008), If You Didn't Know... Now You Know (No. 11, 2011) and Hosanna (No. 11, 2013). In 2002, he also produced the preaching album Battlefield: The Sermon. Norman Hutchins has been nominated eight times for the Dove Awards, twelve times for the Stellar Awards and also for the Grammy Awards, without winning any awards. Suffering from diabetes, he lost some of his vision and became partially blind, before receiving a kidney transplant from his wife. On June 5, 2025, Norman Hutchins died at his home in Carson, California, at the age of 62.
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