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The Cupps were taken to Nashville, TN. by brother Carroll McGruder of the national singing group

“The McGruders,” and introduced to Kevin McManus, the owner of Oak Valley Sound Studio and Zion Music Group (Zion Music is a Nashville Teleproduction Company located in Nashville, TN).

In 1996, The Cupps signed a major recording contract with Zion Music and remained on their label for several years before deciding to record as independent artists. Although The Cupps chose to leave the label, they still did all their recordings with Zion music. They have recorded a total of eight different projects with Zion Music, including their latest project entitled "I Found The Rock."

As of January 2011, The Cupps felt God leading them in a new direction with their music. Although they have had offers to sign with two of the nation's major labels, they felt it wasn't God's will at this present time. The Cupps new direction includes releasing all their new radio singles on Crossroads Radio Sampler as independent artist. Crossroads released their new single "I Found The Rock"

to radio in January 2011 and many radio stations have already reported it as a listener favorite on their station.

The Cupps are known by their song entitled, “What’s Wrong With Living Right”. This song has been a favorite of most southern gospel lovers over the years. In 2006, it received national recognition charting at the number 32 position on the national charts, and continuing on the charts for eight consecutive months in a row. This song also had international success, charting in the top twenties in some countries. It remains a favorite of southern gospel fans and experiences consistent national airplay until this day. More stations keep adding to their play list.

The Cupps have released several songs over the past years that have charted in the “Singing News – Top 80” and the “US Gospel News – America’s Top 100” songs in the nation, including everyone’s favorites, "Army Of Angels" and “The Man In The Middle”. Other songs appearing on the national charts include “He’s My Friend,” “Broken Pieces,” “I’m So Thankful,” “It Wasn’t The Nails,”

and “He’ll Be Calling Us Home”.

In late 2006, The Cupps enjoyed more success, as they became a very popular singing group on “EnLighten - XM 34” a national southern gospel radio station on XM Satellite Radio. And 2007 brought more good things to The Cupps as they signed a national distributing contract with

“New Day” to place their music in Christian bookstores all across the country. New Day is a national distributing company.

The Cupps have recorded eight (8) projects with Zion Music since 1996.

The first project entitled “He’ll Be Calling Us Home” contains five songs that were written by Troy, and two songs written by Barbara’s sister, Rhonda (Davis) Christian.

The second project entitled “I’m So Thankful” contains seven songs

written by Troy.

The third project entitled “It Wasn’t The Nails” contains four songs written by Troy, one written by Barbara, and two written by Barbara’s sister, Rhonda.

The fourth project entitled “The Man In The Middle” contains six songs written by Troy and two songs written by Rhonda.

The fifth project entitled “What’s Wrong With Living Right” contains five songs also written by Troy and two songs written by Rhonda.

The sixth project entitled “God Bless America Again” contains two songs written by Rhonda.

The seventh project entitled “Army Of Angels” contains three songs written by Troy and two written by Rhonda.

This is our eight project and our latest cd entitled “I Found The Rock”

The Cupps perform at churches, camps, conferences, schools, auditoriums, homecomings, and festivals. The have often performed at many venues as the host group. The Cupps have also shared the stage with such great artist as The Wilburn’s, Ivan Parker, Michel Combs, HeirLine, Anchormen, Kevin Spencer and friends, The Singing Cookes, Mike Upright, and many others