Steffany Dawn Gretzinger is a Christian music singer-songwriter and former ensemble vocalist with Bethel Music, based in Redding, California. She released her first solo album, The Undoing, with Bethel Music in 2014. The album was a Billboard magazine breakthrough release, reaching number twenty on the Billboard 200, and also gained top five status among Christian and independent albums in September 2014.
Career
Featuring
Steffany Gretzinger worked mainly as a worship leader with Bethel Music, a part of Bethel Church in Redding, California, where she was involved in three of Bethel Music's releases, including background vocals for Be Lifted High, on which she sang "One Thirst" with fellow Bethel collective member Jeremy Riddle.She also performed background vocals on fellow Bethel Music member William Matthews' release, Hope's Anthem. Another release from such a gathering was The Loft Sessions, where she was a featured vocalist and composer. The Loft Sessions was a live recording made "over several nights of worship sessions" in a rustic, refurbished loft, on which she sang "You Know Me" and "My Dear". That same year, she was featured on the albumFor the Sake of the World, singing "Closer". She joined Bethel again for their release of Tides, also released internationally, with her songs "Letting Go" and "Be Still".
Solo
Gretzinger's first solo album, The Undoing, featured eleven original praise and worship pieces, accompanied by guitar and piano, and was released in August by Bethel Music. The album was a Billboard magazine breakthrough release and appeared on the Top Christian Albums chart at No. 2, the Independent Albums chart at No. 5, and the Billboard 200 chart at No. 20. Since recording The Undoing, Gretzinger was featured on two further Bethel Music albums: and Have It All, the latter of which was also featured on Bethel member Amanda Cook's release, Brave New World. On March 9, 2018, Bethel Music announced the release of Gretzinger's second full-length studio project, Blackout, releasing the lead single, "Save Me". The album was released on March 29, 2018. She was featured on Francesca Battistelli's 2019 song "Defender", which Gretzinger co-wrote.
Biography
Steffany Dawn Gretzinger is married to Stephen Gretzinger, and they have one child. They used to live in Redding California, where she was a worship leader at Bethel Church, but after leading her final worship service on April 21, 2019, they relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. Gretzinger has been engaged in worship ministry since childhood and grew up in a musical household. Her mother, Kathy Frizell, was involved in the Christian music industry in Nashville, Tennessee, as a writer. Frizell is currently a worship leader at Wooster Church of the Nazarene in Wooster, Ohio. Steffany's dad, Ron Frizell, is one of the associate pastors on staff at Wooster Nazarene. Steffany Gretzinger attended the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry in 2008.
