Lou Fellingham

Louise "Lou" Fellingham (Hunt; born 5 May 1974) is an English Christian worship leader, singer and songwriter from Brighton in East Sussex, England.

She is a founding member of the British band Phatfish and has also pursued a solo career.

Nathan's father, David Fellingham has served as one of the elders since 1979.

The church is also home to Stuart Townend, Paul Oakley and other prominent Christian figures.

The evangelical church is affiliated with the Newfrontiers neocharismatic church network and is located at the Clarendon Centre near Brighton railway station.

Fellingham has been the lead singer of the British Christian band Phatfish for the last 17 years, which has played in worship conferences, concert halls, and music festivals, touring throughout Europe and around the world.

She has also performed as a soloist and worship leader and has toured extensively throughout the UK, Canada and the United States.

The various music festivals and worship conferences in which she has participated include the following:

In her teens, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she sang in two local Christian groups, The Turners Hill Mob and 4th Dimension.

Both gained local acclaim among the churches and youth groups of mid Sussex.

Since 1994, live appearances by Phatfish had simply been titled Phatfish, but due to the successful release of Lou Fellingham's debut album, along with the appearance of some of her songs in the setlist, her name was incorporated into the title as Phatfish and Lou Fellingham. Fellingham's husband, Nathan described the arrangement during an interview with Adrian Warnock.

More recently, concerts have been titled Phatfish and Lou Fellingham, with songs from Lou Fellingham's set of works and Phatfish's works being played, in addition to older songs, as well.

Phatfish and Lou Fellingham have also supported Stuart Townend in Cheltenham and Wrexham, with less dynamic lighting and a more acoustic sound.

In addition to other musical projects, Fellingham continues to lead worship and head up the choir at her local church.

She is still a faithful member of the band Phatfish and they have just released their latest full studio album, In Jesus.

Recent appearances at Newday, Souled Out, The Cheltenham Bible Conference, Brighton, Wrexham, Soul By The Sea and Gloucester have been titled "Phatfish and Lou Fellingham".

Phatfish and Lou Fellingham have also led worship at the Mission:Worship conference alongside Stuart Townend and Matt Redman in Eastbourne.

Additionally, they participated on the Mission:Worship album released by Kingsway Music/Survivor Records titled A New Day Of Worship.

In 1998, she married Nathan Fellingham, the drummer and one of the founding members of Phatfish.

Together, they have three children.

The family attends the Church of Christ the King (CCK), where they are frequently involved in leading worship and musical projects.

In particular, Fellingham serves the church by training and managing their 50-member church choir.

In late 2005, Lou Fellingham began recording her debut solo album Treasure, which was released in January 2006.

Fellingham wrote most of the songs on the album, while her husband served as co-writer.

The album quickly shot to the number one spot, becoming the best-selling album of 2006 through Cross Rhythms.

In 2006 and early 2007, before work on the next Phatfish studio album started, Fellingham began performing songs from Treasure on a "Stu and Lou" Tour, with Stuart Townend, which took them to various locations around the UK.

When Phatfish's Guaranteed was released in July 2007, it received positive reviews and high sales at Christian events.

With the success of both Fellingham's Treasure, and Phatfish's Guaranteed, rather than embark on an official Guaranteed tour, Phatfish followed up with a series of one-night shows and a TV appearance on Premier TV, under the banner Phatfish and Lou Fellingham.

In 2008, she won a Christian Broadcasting Council (CBC) Award for her album Promised Land, in the category of Best Worship.

She has worked alongside other Christian artists such as Matt Redman, Graham Kendrick, Tim Hughes and Stuart Townend.

She regularly leads worship and performs at different venues around the world.

A rendition of Fellingham leading the hymn "In Christ Alone" has had more than six million views on YouTube.

Louise (Lou) Fellingham (née Hunt) grew up in the West Sussex village of Turners Hill in England, where she attended the Turners Hill Free Church.

In early 2008, the band performed two more Phatfish and Lou Fellingham concerts in connection with Hope 08.

The first event was in Brighton, as part of "Soul By The Sea"; the second in Gloucester on 14 March.

Lou Fellingham led worship at the Kingsway's Children's Ministry conference in January, and the band gigged and led worship at New Word Alive in Wales alongside Stuart Townend.

There were five more concerts in 2008; Keswick, Crawley, NEWI, Danbury and Bognor Regis Bible Week.

Fellingham is back on the latest Phatfish album In Jesus, released in June 2009.

She has continued to perform on the In Jesus tour over the past year and has done many one-night events including unplugged concerts, a special event at Westminster Abbey, and the Premier Radio Woman to Woman Northern conference in Manchester.

Since their formation, and even before, Phatfish has been called upon as a worship band to lead and assist others at conferences and their local church.