New Album from Martha Munizzi

Martha Munizzi To Release No Limits March 14

First Record Released in Partnership with Integrity Music

Mobile, Ala. – Internationally acclaimed praise and worship artist Martha Munizzi will release her highly anticipated follow up to her Award Winning CD The Best Is Yet To Come and her first CD release since she signed on with Integrity Music for a long-term marketing and distribution deal. No Limits, a 2-disc CD filled with both high energy praise and intimate worship, is set to release on March 14, on Integrity Music to Christian retail and to general market outlets on the Epic-Columbia Records label through Sony-BMG Distribution.

“Rarely do artists connect with such a broad cross-section of culture in the way Martha Munizzi has already done and predicts to do in an even bigger way with her new release. When she sings that there are ‘no limits’ Martha may very well be describing the next season in her own life after this new record releases,” said Don Moen, president of Integrity Label Group. “Integrity Music is very excited about Martha’s new project; it is an important priority for the company in 2006.”

An eclectic collection of songs that offers new sounds and new styles, No Limits was produced by Noel Hall (former musical director for Fred Hammond). The majority of the album’s 22 tracks were written or co-written by Munizzi, who admits there were moments of pre-production butterflies and pressure to meet the high expectations set by her indie success. “I had some moments of feeling, ‘You did this once, but can you do it again?’, but when we got around to the writing and recording, I just did what was in my heart,” said Munizzi. “I had no idea what a hit song was when we did the first album, and couldn’t tell you today. I just waited until I felt the Lord put something in my spirit. That’s the only way I know how to do this.”

No Limits was recorded live at Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, just a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina made its life-changing impact on the Gulf Coast. The same sanctuary Munizzi and her musicians and singers filled with praise music to create No Limits was later filled with hundreds of evacuees and served as a key relief center, visited by President George Bush and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and other celebrities and was featured on every major broadcast network. Munizzi notes that one particular song, "While You Worship," had an unknowingly prophetic message with lyrics: “You can make it through the storm, you can make it through the rain” among the song’s words of hope and restoration.

Before recording No Limits, Munizzi had become one of gospel music’s most successful independent artists, known for her dynamic, inspiring and commanding style of songwriting, performing and leading worship. She has sold more than 330,000 of her first three recordings, Say The Name, The Best Is Yet To Come and When He Came, which were produced by Martha Munizzi Music, the label she and her husband Dan (and executive producer of No Limits) founded. The Best Is Yet To Come remained in the top 20 on the Billboard Gospel Chart for more than 75 consecutive weeks.

The accolades have equaled the sales success. Last January, Munizzi was named “New Artist of the Year” at the 2005 Stellar Awards where she made history as the first non-African American woman to win a Stellar Award. She was also nominated for Dove Awards in 2005 for "Best Contemporary Gospel Song of the Year" for the singles "Because Of Who You Are" and "Say The Name.” In 2006, her Christmas record When He Came is nominated for a Stellar Award and Say The Name is up for a GRAMMY Award. Billboard named Munizzi among the top 10 gospel artists for 2005.

In addition to her live performances and CDs, Munizzi is known for her incomparable songwriting. Her songs such as “Shout,” “Say The Name,” and “Because Of Who You Are” have become praise and worship anthems in churches across America and around the world and Karen Clark Sheard, Vicki Yohe, Ron Kenoly and Alvin Slaughter are just a few of the artists who have recorded her songs.