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Nolte: Chart-topping Christian Singer Solomon Ray Is AI Creation
Breitbart ^ | 11/25/2025 | John Nolte

Posted on 11/25/2025 12:50:47 PM PST by DFG

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1 posted on 11/25/2025 12:50:47 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Not a fan of AI Christian ANYTHING.


2 posted on 11/25/2025 12:54:28 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: DFG

Something not in the article, but perhaps related, was something that happened to the AI “singer”’s creator: Jermaine Townsend. He was blacklisted from music platforms like Spotify for his song The Patriot that he sang at the Jan 6 Veterans for Trump rally. It’s possible that he created his tech alter ego to get around that blacklisting.


3 posted on 11/25/2025 12:57:29 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DFG

Do they at least market the music as AI? Or are they making the AI pass as a real person?


4 posted on 11/25/2025 1:00:23 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: Nervous Tick

The public simply does not need this form of crap & it gives righteous use of AI (if there is such a thing) a bad name.


5 posted on 11/25/2025 1:46:46 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Nervous Tick

Not something we need & this gives righteous use of AI (if such a thing exists) a bad name.


6 posted on 11/25/2025 1:49:17 PM PST by oldtech
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You mean you don’t like to see Elvis playing Captain Kirk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bqWTWHCgc


7 posted on 11/25/2025 1:51:01 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

Some of the AI music that I see is pretty good. I don’t know how it’s done but it must surely be a sort of collaboration between the human and the software, so that the software is more or less an instrument. Anyone know much about it?


8 posted on 11/25/2025 1:53:10 PM PST by marron
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I like the ones that aren’t safe for work, because it’s obviously AI. But they can be real catchy.


9 posted on 11/25/2025 1:55:26 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Nervous Tick

In general, if “Christian” “music” is not Johnny Cash singing or an old hymn, or better yet, Johnny Cash singing an old hymn, it’s not worth listening to.


10 posted on 11/25/2025 2:12:26 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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“Can’t you see you’re not making rock and roll better, you’re only making Christianity worse.” - Hank Hill


11 posted on 11/25/2025 2:14:01 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

How is this different than “contemporary “ Christian boy bands?


12 posted on 11/25/2025 2:26:52 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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13 posted on 11/25/2025 2:30:34 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: TheThirdRuffian

How about Johnny Cash and One Bad Pig (Christian Punk Band) doing Man in Black?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5I1Q5URg6g


14 posted on 11/25/2025 3:27:20 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If you go to his Instagram page, tt’s marked AI.


15 posted on 11/25/2025 3:28:08 PM PST by roving
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To: Prov1322

Eh, derivative.


16 posted on 11/25/2025 3:53:46 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: DFG

Many will worship the beast.


17 posted on 11/25/2025 4:19:13 PM PST by Revel
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To: DFG

The wisdom of Hank Hill applies to AI music as well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwaqaOcAyE


18 posted on 11/25/2025 6:26:22 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Tell It Right

Interesting. I put his name into the search line in Brave browser and got this [AI-generated answer, please verify critical facts]...

Jermaine Townsend is the name associated with multiple individuals, including a U.S. Air Force veteran and Mississippi native named Christopher Jermaine Townsend, who is also known by the moniker Topher.

This individual is the creator behind Solomon Ray, an AI-generated gospel artist whose music reached No. 1 on iTunes, sparking significant discussion within the Christian music community.

Solomon Ray is not a real person but a digital creation developed by Christopher Jermaine Townsend to explore the use of artificial intelligence in worship music.

Townsend has stated that the project was not intended to replace human artists but to expand the reach of the Gospel through innovative tools.

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By the way, I hadn’t heard about a “Jan 6 Veterans for Trump rally”. That’s not the one on January 6, 2021, is it?


19 posted on 11/25/2025 8:37:36 PM PST by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: roving

I wonder if the Billboard charts will have separate sections for AI generated music.


20 posted on 11/25/2025 8:47:08 PM PST by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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