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Other top winning performers included Jason Crabb with four, Tasha Cobbs with three, and Chris Tomlin and Tamela Mann with two each. For King & Country won best new artist. A hyped-up Kirk Franklin and Amy Grant hosted the awards, which will be aired Monday night at 8 p.m. EDT on UP TV. Several of the genre's top acts performed, including Grant, Mann, Cobbs, Crabb, the Gaither Vocal Band and NEEDTOBREATHE. Pastor Rick Warren, whose son Matthew's suicide drew national attention earlier this year, attended and presented an award. Warren spoke with reporters afterward and sent his thanks to all who have sent prayers to him and his family. "There's nothing more excruciating than looking up in the airport at CNN and seeing your son's name with the words
'autopsy' and 'suicide,'" Warren said. "That's just excruciatingly painful and we would not have made it without the prayers of thousands of people." ___ Online:
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