Arends began her career as a songwriter at Benson Music Publishing. In 1995, Carolyn began touring and releasing albums as a singer and guitarist. Her debut release that year (I Can Hear You) was released through Reunion Records. I Can Hear You reached No. 37 on Billboard Magazine's Contemporary Christian Chart in 1996. Feel Free peaked at No. 10 on the chart in 1997.[1] More recently her albums have been distributed by Signpost Music. She is the winner of two Gospel Music Association Dove Awards and six GMA Canada Covenant Awards. Carolyn co-hosted the 29th Annual Covenant Awards in 2007 (with Leland Klassen) and the 31st Annual Covenant Awards in 2009 (with Arlen Salte).[2]
Chart position: No. 37 US Top Contemporary Christian Albums
Tracks: "This Is The Stuff", "I Can Hear You", "Seize The Day", "Altar of Ego", "Love Is Always There", "Reaching", "The Power of Love", "You Take My Soul By Storm", "What I Wouldn't Give", "Home Fires Burning", "All Is Well"
Chart position: No. 10 US Top Contemporary Christian Albums
Tracks: "Do What You Do", "New Year's Day", "Feel Free", "There You Are", "This I Know", "Big Deal", "Last Thursday (Call Me Crazy)", "Do We Dare", "Good Thing Going", "Father, Thy Will Be Done"
Tracks: "Happy", "Life Is Long", "Go With God", "Life And Death", "The Day Will Never Come", "Surprised By Joy", "One-Syllable Words", "Even The Wallflowers", "In Between", "Love You Out Loud", "In Good Hands", "We've Been Waiting For You"
Producer: Brown Bannister, Dan Marnien, Carolyn Arends, Brad Crisler, Russ Long
Tracks: "They'll Know We Are Christians", "What Love Looks Like", "Seize the Day", "New Year's Day", "The Power of Love", "Reaching", "Do What You Do", "This Is The Stuff", "Happy", "Father Thy Will Be Done", "We've Been Waiting For You", "Seize the Day" (live) (duet with Mac Powell), "This I Know" (live), "There You Are" (live), "I Can Hear You" (live), "Go With God" (live)
Tracks: "Eternity in Our Hearts", "Travelers (The Airport Song)", "Dance Like No One's Watching", "What We Hope For", "It's Out of My Hands", "Only Love", "River of Love", "Loving You", "I Believe", "It Has To Be You", "(I Wanna) Go Somewhere With You", "Do Not Be Afraid"
Tracks: "Moving", "Come Anyway", "The Thought of You", "Don't Forget Where You Came From", "Your Father in Heaven", "We've Been Waiting For You", "(You Make Me Feel) Like A Natural Woman", "Even The Wallflowers", "Be God's", "Forever Young"
Tracks: "This Is The Moment", "Great Cloud of Witnesses", "Not A Tame Lion", "Any Given Sunday", "Getting Ready For Glory", "Under The Gaze", "Your Laugh", "Half A Million Reasons", "Fragile", "Who You Are", "Only Time Will Tell", "May You Live"
Tracks: "The Irrational Season (Prelude)", "Come And See", "Do Not Be Afraid", "Angels We Have Heard on High", "Christmas Must Be Tonight", "Is Bethlehem Too Far Away", "Now in Flesh Appearing", "My First Christmas", "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "The Lord's Servant", "Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus", "A Christmas Blessing", "The Irrational Season (Postlude)"
Tracks: "Just Pretending", "Something to Give", "What in the World", "The Wasteland", "Land of the Living", "To See Your Face", "Everybody Wants Everything", "More is Less", "Free", "No Trespassing", "Not Alone", "I've Got a Hope"
Tracks: "Be Still", "Standing in the Need of Prayer", "My Favourite Lie", "Something out of Us", "I am a Soul", "Willing", "Roll it", "The Last Word", "According to Plan", "Nothing Can Separate", Never Say Goodbye"
Singles
Year
Single
Chart Positions
Album
CAN AC
CAN
1996
"This Is the Stuff"
3
23
I Can Hear You
"I Can Hear You"
7
18
1997
"Seize the Day"
29
"Do What You Do"
20
59
Feel Free
Books
Feel Free (1997)
Living the Questions: Making Sense of the Mess and Mystery of Life (Harvest House, 2000)
Ragamuffin Prayers (2000, by Jimmy Abegg, contributions by Carolyn Arends and others)
We've Been Waiting for You (2002)
Wrestling With Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt (Harvest House, 2008)
Collaborations
co-wrote lyrics for "Diamonds from the Other Side" with Steve Bell on his album: Waiting for Aidan (Signpost, 2001)
co-wrote lyrics for "Not So Hip" with Bec Abbot on her album: Not So Hip (Signpost, 2005)
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Vancouver Seeds is an annual talent contest run by the Vancouver, British Columbia FM radio station CFOX-FM.
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For the 2010 Covenant Awards of October 29, 2010 Arends also received nominations for Female Vocalist of the Year, Folk/Roots Album of the Year: Love Was Here First, Inspirational Song of the Year: "Never Say Goodbye", and Jazz/Blues Song of the Year: "Roll It".[citation needed]
