Trent Monk

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Trent Monk in the Here and Now... Revitalized Singer Flying Solo and Loving It At some point among the crashing plates and angry customers, Trent Monk realized he was missing his calling. “I was going to culinary school to be a chef. I was working in a restaurant and went, wait, what am I doing?” he said. “The learning curve was years ahead of me to become a great chef. Did I want to leave behind all 10 years that I had put into music? That’s when I began to realize why I started doing music in the first place. God starting doing things with my heart.” Monk’s musical sabbatical ended there. He picked up his guitar and hasn’t looked back. “It feels good, feels right. I have more passion and excitement than I’ve ever had.” Monk had survived and thrived through the music industry grind for more than a decade. Success came through a pair of Nashville record label deals and Top 5 hits. He recorded Dancing with the Angels in 2005 and The Twenty-First Time in 2008 as half of the Monk and Neagle duo. The records drew industry acclaim. "I've worked on a lot of great records," said Ed Cash, Gospel Music's 5 time Producer of the Year, "and the special ones you can usually identify. From the beginning, the songs to me on this record are simply at another level... It's been amazing, watching these guys bring them to life." But a few years later, Monk says he was dried up and burned out. He walked away. “I’ve always said that I would give it up and go in a different direction if God

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