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Sidewalk Prophets singer publishes ‘The Luckiest Star,’ shares journey of writing

  • December 3, 2022
  • Tracy Riggs
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Dave Frey, lead singer of Sidewalk Prophets, is releasing his children’s Christmas book, “The Luckiest Star.”
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Sidewalk Prophets singer publishes ‘The Luckiest Star,’ shares journey of writing

Sometimes a person can live the kind of life others only imagine, yet have other dreams waiting for God’s timing.

That was the case for Dave Frey, lead singer of the contemporary Christian group Sidewalk Prophets. He is about to start his 20th year with the band, and during that time the award-winning group produced four major studio albums, five No. 1 hits and eight Top 5 songs. 

However, Frey has had another dream most of his life — to write a book. Now, after four years of writing, Frey is set to release his first children’s Christmas book, “The Luckiest Star.”

‘Blessed’

Frey said writing the book made him “realize how blessed I am to do what I do, but also be able to call myself an author now. It’s pretty surreal that this has happened.”

“The Luckiest Star” is based on the Sidewalk Prophets’ song “Hey, Moon,” written about 10 years ago. Both projects came out of Frey’s love of all things Christmas.

“I always cite ‘Hey, Moon’ as one of my faves mostly because it just meant Christmas,” he said. “I love celebrating the birth of Jesus. I love the family, the gifts and all those things. And now I have a 2-year-old son, so it means even more.

“Even before I had a wife, before I even met my wife, when we wrote that song [I thought] ‘I’d love to write a Christmas song that I could someday sing to my kids, if I have kids.’”

Ben McDonald, a former member of Sidewalk Prophets, came up with the idea. He proposed writing a song from the perspective of the moon talking to the star of Bethlehem about the night Jesus was born.

Perspective

It quickly became a fan favorite and the band is asked to play it throughout the year.

“Now here I am, a dad of a 2 1/2-year-old and not only do I get to sing this song to him, but I get to read a book inspired by the song to him,” Frey said.

The idea for the book also came from McDonald, the “engine of the band” and “the idea guy,” according to Frey. 

“The book shifts perspective to the star just trying to find his place and what he was made for,” Frey explained. “There’s a lot of books talking about who you are and that you’re special. I wanted to make sure [my book’s message was], ‘God made you special.’ Even when people see the things you do as flaws, maybe [that’s something God wants to use for Himself].”

Frey said his son is tenderhearted, silly and laughs a lot. Those traits might be accepted in a 2-year-old “but the older you get, the more the world seems like it wants to pull that out of you.”

Frey applied the idea: “What if we wrote it from the perspective of a little star trying to find its place?”

God’s timing

It took four years, three writers and an illustrator — with a pandemic thrown in — before they felt the book was ready to share. 

“Finally, after four years of revising, kind of forgetting about it for a year and then coming back to it,” Frey recalled, “I think we got it to where we thought, ‘Oh man, this gives me goosebumps when I read it.’”

And though it was something Frey wanted to do for years, he is content that it was God’s timing.

“I don’t know that it would have been the book it is, would have been complete, without me having a son,” he explained. “Time and experiences have led to this moment.”

Reason for the season

Frey now has the song and book he wanted to one day share with his child, and he’s using both to teach his son the real reason for Christmas — Jesus.

“The Luckiest Star” is available at Sidewalk Prophets Christmas concerts or at sidewalk-prophets.myshopify.com/collections/the-luckiest-star.

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