Jody Davis (Newsboys)

Jody Davis (b. Petersburg, September 26, 1967 - ) – Guitarist and songwriter. As a teenager in Southern Indiana, Jody Davis spent most of his time practicing his guitar in his bedroom although he did play in a top forty cover band. From there, he gravitated to Christian Rock and played in a band called the Phos, which teamed up on the road with Keith Thibeadeaux (“Little Ricky” from I Love Lucy) to form the Lively Stones. (Another member of the Phos was Jim Cooper, Petra’s keyboardist from 1994 to 1997.) From 1992 to 2003, Davis was the guitarist with the Newsboys, one of the best known Christian Rock bands of the ‘90s. Based in Nashville, the Newsboys produced eight albums during Davis’s tenure and garnered numerous accolades, including four Grammy nominations, five Dove wins, and various honors from the Billboard Music Awards, International Angel Awards, and the Nashville Music Awards. Formed back in 1985, the band’s career catapulted right at the time that Davis joined; in fact, Davis’s first album with the group--Going Public (1994)--won the Dove Award for Rock Album of Year (the band’s only win in that category). After leaving in Newsboys in 2003 to spend more time with his family and care for his ill daughter Bethany, Davis has relocated to Yuma, Arizona. In 2009, he returned to the Newsboys, which is still going strong. A 2019 summer tour for the new United album includes dates spread out all over the country, including a spot alongside Jeremy Camp in the "Love Song: Christian Couples Getaway" in Koloa, Hawaii.