Dustin Griffith: Kaylee (my now wife) and I met when she showed up at my home church, during our Wed night youth service. I was leading worship that night and remember making sure to hit every note just right. :) Later that night, she grabbed an acoustic guitar, and I knew I wanted to make music with her the rest of my life. 11 years later we are still making music together and leading people the best we can to the Gospel.

Dustin: "Lee" Is my middle name and "Marie" is Kaylee's. As far back as our return home from our honeymoon (2014), we have gone back and forth on names. We really didn't want some random band name that we needed to find a cheesy meaning for, but our full names weren't cutting it either. After talking about it with a cousin of mine, I mentioned the name "Lee & Marie. She quickly, without even acknowledging my idea, said It should be Lee Marie !!! I liked it because it is our name and so no one can take that away. I also felt it kind of personified the internal me of whom I wrote "All About Jesus" about.

Dustin: "All About Jesus" is my story. I have been blessed to have so many opportunities to use my musical gift on all kinds of stages, especially at a young age. But there was a point (I call it my Abraham/Issac moment) where God very clearly asked me to lay my plans down for His. After years of doing what God had asked of me but watching other friends of mine "make it" in the music industry, I decided it was time to "get mine too''. I spent 5 hours one day trying to write and got nowhere. At that moment I got pretty heated with God and sincerely asked him WHY WON'T YOU GIVE ME WHAT I WANT!!! He let me finish my tirade and loud and clear spoke to my spirit and said: "BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT YOU AND NOT ME." I immediately started envisioning myself as a king on a throne, yet my kingdom was barren, dead, and worthless. I realized right then, life is better when I lay down my wants and desires for His, EVERYTIME!!! Ten minutes later, "All about Jesus" was written.

Dustin: Good question, I don't think I've "arrived" yet. Paul said in Gal. 5:24 "Those who belong to Christ Jesus HAVE crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." That's not a suggestion, It's a requirement if we want to be a part of his kingdom. But what's great about God ,like Joseph in scripture, when you are in his will you seem to always look back and see what God has actually done and you wouldn't want it any other way. During quarantine God confirmed this for me teaching a class in the same room God asked me to lay everything down. 7 out 7 young people got the message and one of them said to me "Your message was more impactful than anything you could do on a stage of 20,000" ... Full Circle!!!

Dustin: Hey who says I can't rap? haha No I honestly can't and I definitely can't write rap lyrics!!! Jordan Bernard Is one of my first youth kids who has just become an amazingly gifted artist. So we knew for sure we had to get him on something plus im terrible at writing bridges so it was a perfect fit. He KILLED IT!!!

Dustin: Yes, We are releasing 4 singles over the next few months and then the full EP will drop 02/18/22. Were looking at about 7-8 tracks (still deciding :) ) all of which seemed to follow the central theme of it being "All about Jesus" ... Funny how that happens. Were super pumped for everyone to hear it!!!!

Dustin: So literally everyone on this [site] may never turn on another song we sing because of this answer but I have never read/watched Chronicles of Narnia (Insert groan here). But I am short and have been called Frodo by many of my friends. I have, however, seen Lord of the Rings, so I'll gladly take a trip to the Shire!!!