{"id":39331,"date":"2025-09-05T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=39331"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:10:43","slug":"gospel-singer-songwriter-rudy-currence-02-gives-back-to-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/gospel-singer-songwriter-rudy-currence-02-gives-back-to-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel singer-songwriter Rudy Currence &#8217;02 gives back to alma mater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 29, Rudy Currence, a 2002 Furman University music alumnus and Gospel singer-songwriter, paid a visit to his Rock Hill, South Carolina, alma mater, Northwestern High School. The school welcomed students to a new academic year themed &#8220;You Belong Here,&#8221; a nod to Currence&#8217;s &#8220;I Belong Here,&#8221; which topped Billboard&#8217;s Gospel chart in 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/york-county\/education\/rudy-currence-grammy-rock-hill-schools-performance\/article_e456d416-dcd3-48cf-bb0c-6e0caa46b0e6.html\">The Post and Courier York County<\/a> covered the celebration that included words of encouragement and music from Currence, a Grammy and Dove Award-winning producer, Grammy-nominated writer and two-time #1 Billboard recording artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever give up,&#8221; he told students gathered in the gymnasium. &#8220;This is decades in the making and a lifelong journey. I\u2019m grateful for the highs and lows. If people could take anything from my story, it\u2019s that I\u2019ve been faithful, I\u2019ve persevered and I\u2019m passionate in what I\u2019m purposed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Currence &#8217;02 offers a performance and words of encouragement for students when he pays a visit to his Rock Hill, S.C., high school. The Post and Courier York County covered the back-to-school celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":39335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,39,3488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-the-post-and-courier-york-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39331"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39339,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39331\/revisions\/39339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}