Education
In 1954, Billy Ray Hearn graduated from Baylor University with a degree in church music
In 1954, Billy Ray Hearn graduated from Baylor University with a degree in church music
In 1972, Hearn started Myrrh Records, one of the first labels devoted to contemporary Christian music, at Word Incorporated., the label of Amy Grant. In 1976, he formed his own label, Sparrow Records, the label behind musicians Keith Green, John Michael Talbot, and Margaret Becker. In 1992, Hearn sold Sparrow to Electric and Music Industries Music, the label of artists including Steven Curtis Chapman and BeBe & CeCe Winans.
He died in 2015 of heart disease.