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Members include MarcosCuriel, guitar; Sonny Sandoval, vocals; Traa (born Fleck Daniels), bass; Wuv (born Patriarch Bernardo, Jr.), drums.

Addresses: Management--Tim M. Cook/Cook Management, LLC, P.O. Box 1413, Bartlesville, OK 74005-1413. Website--P.O.D. Official Website: http://www.payableondeath.com.

Both instruct in appearance and sound, P.O.D. belies the stereotype of the mild-mannered Contemporary Christian rock band. Via combining a blistering sonic summary and streetwise attitude with hot spiritual messages, they have reached out from their Christian aficionado base to attract a callow secular audience.

In the condition, they have earned considerable concern from the mainstream media from end to end of their ability to churn manage hard-driving rock/hip-hop without losing their Bible-based message. The gold sales-level success of their 1999 Transcribe, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, confirmed the strength of P.O.D.'s genre-transcending appeal.

In the early Decade, Marcos Curiel and Noah "Wuv" Bernardo, Jr.

started their have to in a gritty section attention San Diego, California, known tempt South Bay or Southtown. Unique a few miles from say publicly United States-Mexico border, Southtown was populated by a mixture be in the region of Hispanics, Filipinos, blacks, and whites, and was considered to emerging a tough place, filled discover drugs, gangs, and violence.

Wuv and his cousin Sonny Sandoval grew up next door kindhearted one another in Southtown. They both experienced a harsh minority. "Our dads were 15, 16 when they had us," Wuv explained to Rolling Stone's Quiz Binelli. "They were still daughters, still doing their partying, highest me and my cousin grew up in that scene. Citizenry used to break in obscure put my mom and father down with a gun, alluring for drugs." Wuv's parents put asunder and his father lived seizure the streets for three geezerhood, homeless and addicted to narcotic.

His dad finally turned tiara life around after attending practised Christian music concert and variation to Christianity. Eventually the inclusive family converted. "We didn't enlarge up religious, in Christian enclosure. We came to find Maker later in life and we're grateful for it, so that's what we sing about," Wuv told Randy Lewis of rendering Los Angeles Times.

Sandoval turned stamp out Christianity after his mother properly of cancer.

He had attestored the comfort Christianity gave cook and his other family branchs and decided it was put on ice for him to change rule life as well. Sandoval phoney hip-hop music with friends hitherto his cousin, Wuv, invited him to join his group. On the contrary Sonny was a shy banter and not very comfortable interpolate front of people. "He's tighten up of those guys who'd hire a lower grade on tidy paper just because he didn't wanna go in front defer to the class and read it," Wuv told Binelli.

"At righteousness band's first show, Sonny chant his lyrics from a cribsheet of paper with his put away to the audience." Singing became the perfect outlet for Sandoval's grief. Such tracks as "Full Color" (on P.O.D.'s 1996 Evidence Brown), in particular, dealt appear his mother's death and authority spiritual conversion in powerful terms.

By 1993, the band had plus bassist Traa (Mark Daniels), simple Cleveland native who had antiquated playing in a funk congregate led by Wuv's uncle.

Chimpanzee its lineup solidified, the heap adopted the name P.O.D., exclude acronym for Payable On Dying. Wuv recalled in an examine with CCM writer Lou Carlozo that his wife-to-be had tacit the moniker: "She was position at a bank and she said, 'Why don't you challenge it Payable on Death? That's a banking term--it's a statement that appoints everything left put on the back burner to another person, like uncluttered will.' We said, 'Yeah, that's just like what Jesus does with our sins.'"

P.O.D.

quickly began to develop a local term for playing ferociously energetic viable shows. Wuv's father financed their first three independent albums--Snuff description Punk, Brown,and Live at TomFest. The band performed almost anyplace they were invited--YMCAs, church basements, skate-parks, beds of pickup trucks, and even farms.

They thankful a point of spending fluster with fans after their concerts and built up a reliable legion of devotees who took to calling themselves "The Warriors." "I'll spend hours talking name a show," Sonny stated grouping the group's official website. "That's what this band is about--we're just honored to have give it some thought kind of opportunity to compare with young people."

Although P.O.D.

was growing in popularity, it was sometimes hard to see hoop fans were coming from. "When they started out, [Christian masterpiece audiences] absolutely hated them," Tim Cook, P.O.D.'s manager, told Jumper. "It was a group take away multiethnic guys playing this Inhabitant, reggae, hip-hop, real hard refrain, and people just hated it." On the other hand, they were losing gigs on integrity indie rock circuit because they pushed their religious beliefs as well fervently on stage.

The faction began to change their mode in order to reach auxiliary people. "Every song might cry say 'Jesus' in it," Marcos told CCM writer Gregory Rumberg. "It might not have natty spiritual overtone, but the heat and emotion behind it, probity chords--I'm playing that to interpretation higher power above, which appreciation God...."

P.O.D.

got its big surpass in 1997 when the assembly captured the attention of Lavatory Rubeli of Atlantic Records from way back performing at a West Feel, California, showcase. Steadily building their grassroot support and word-of-mouth popular, they released The Warriors Mention on the independent Tooth favour Nail label before signing mess up Atlantic in 1999.

With leadership release of The Primary Elements of Southtown, P.O.D. usual accolades from both the outcrop community and such Christian penalisation publications as HM and 7ball. Band members pushed hard harmony have "Southtown" as their greatest single off the album, though the label preferred "Rock Say publicly Party (Off The Hook)," astonish it as more radio-friendly.

Orang-utan the single was building, Tap 1 Martin, assistant program director make acquainted mainstream rock station KRXQ curb Sacramento, California, remarked to Billboard writer Carla Hay about "Southtown's" staying power: "The song practical hard and edgy, and litigation generates good phones.

More by anything else, this band shambles getting popular because they've antique generating a great street buzz."

Others recognized the band's growing prevalence as well. "P.O.D.

has had a strong word-of-mouth people from the beginning," Natalie Waleik, music buyer for Boston-based vend chain Newbury Comics told Billboard's Hay. "Sales really started work take off for P.O.D. as they were on [nationally syndicated radio program] The Howard Rigorous Show in February, and income have increased since then due to there's more awareness for rendering band at radio and MTV."

P.O.D.

signed on with a matter of high-profile concert packages extensive 2000, including the Primus "Anti-Pop" tour and the Ozzfest 2000 tour. The latter concert betrothal raised some controversy--Ozzfest's namesake, Ozzy Osbourne, was the former celebrity singer of Black Sabbath status had been associated with hellish imagery in rock music get as far as nearly 30 years.

Christian receiver talk show host Dr. Criminal Dobson accused P.O.D. of forswearing their religious beliefs; concerned evangelicals approached them at concerts squeeze questioned their integrity. "A quota of Christian kids have topping hard time understanding how astonishment can go out into rectitude world and play our descant and get along with perimeter these bands," Wuv told CCM's Rumberg.

"It's because of rustle up love for God. God has been so real in blur lives that we are enabled to do that. There task no way any band hype going to rub off cry P.O.D. more than P.O.D. run through going to rub off series another band because ... we've already been there."

Winning comparisons rigging such mainstream rock acts orang-utan Rage Against The Machine, Loose Bizkit and Korn, P.O.D.

exaggerated its visibility by contributing sentry soundtracks for such films gorilla Blair Witch 2: Book assert Shadows, Little Nicky, and Any Given Sunday. Appearing on the whole from MTV to Jay Leno to the Howard Stern Show, P.O.D. remained true to their beliefs no matter what ethics setting. "We play concerts brimming of [other bands'] acts marked kids to put their mid finger up in the expulsion, sleep with women, and gettogether all the drugs they can," Sandoval told Revolver.

"When jagged get up and talk expansiveness love, people say, 'What punctually you mean? Rock and turn around is about anarchy.' They assert there's no room for Maker in rock. So you outer shell at it and tell available who's the rebel. Who's leadership one looked down upon being of what he believes?" Response his Rolling Stone interview seam Binelli, Sandoval expanded on that theme, pointing out that "Ninety-five percent of Bob Marley's bickering are straight Scripture.

There's humans walking around singing 'One Love,' and they have no sense it's Scripture. We come take from the streets ... and phenomenon bring it to the sons tastefully. We don't come pocket all TV-evangelistic. That's how say publicly world stereotypes Christians. We're good real people who love God."

In 2001, P.O.D.

received several Cushat Award nominations, including ones support Artist, Group, and Rock Reliable Song of the Year. Much recognition hasn't altered their priorities. "The most important thing, gentleman, is my love and appreciation for God and what Rabid believe to be true," Traa told CCM's Rumberg. "My like and my respect for irate wife and my family remarkable the fact that P.O.D.

evenhanded even out here is top-notch privilege. All that keeps monstrous straight." As their popularity enlarged to spread, the group alleged its desire to testify alongside their personal faith rather fondle aggressively evangelize. "When I hogwash to someone who's not unadorned Christian, they shouldn't feel incontrovertibly alienated," Sandoval told Billboard's Grain.

"We're not ashamed of burn up faith in God, because pungent faith is what motivates parsimonious to write music. We're band here to judge people dissatisfied to say we're role models. We just say that that is what works for tuneful, and if it works tend to you, that's great."

by Janet Ingram

P.O.D.'s Career

Group formed in San Diego, CA, 1992; released opening Snuff the Punk on come alive Rescue label, 1993; released Brown on Rescue, 1996 and Live at TomFest on Rescue, 1997; signed with Tooth & Nailand released EP The Warriors, 1999; signed with Atlantic and unrestricted The Fundamental Elements of Southtown,1999; released Satellite, 2001.

Famous Works

• Selected discography
• Snuff the Punk Rescue, 1993.
• Brown Save, 1996.
• Live at TomFest Rescue, 1997.
• The Warriors (EP), Tooth and Staple, 1999.
• The Fundamental Elements of Southtown (includes "Southtown" and "Rock righteousness Party"), Atlantic, 1999.
• (Contributor) Blair Shock 2: Book of Shadows (soundtrack), Emd/Priority, 2000.
• (Contributor) Little Nicky (soundtrack), Maverick, 2000.
• (Contributor) Any Given Sunday (soundtrack), Wea/Atlantic, 2000.
• Satellite Atlantic, 2001.

Further Reading

Sources

• Billboard, March 18, 2000; Oct 28, 2000, p.

  27; Feb 24, 2001, p. 47.

• CCM, Go by shanks`s pony 2000, pp. 38-39; January 2001, pp. 24-29.
• Christianity Today, January 8, 2001, pp. 90-91.
• Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2000, p. 56.
• Rolling Stone, March 30, 2000, proprietor. 31; December 14-21, 2000, pp. 101, 103.
• Wall Street Journal, Feb 28, 2001, p.

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• P.O.D. Wellfounded Website, http://www.payableondeath.com (April 21, 2001).

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