Chris Quilala

He has been part of the Jesus Culture movement, since he was fourteen years old in 1996. He has been featured on many Jesus Culture albums, including Everything (2006), We Cry Out (2007), Your Love Never Fails (2008), Consumed (2009), Come Away (2010), Awakening: Live from Chicago (2011), Live From New York (with Martin Smith) (2012), Unstoppable Love (2014), and Let It Echo (2016). Quilala's debut solo album, Split the Sky, was released on November 11, 2016 Recently, Quilala co-wrote the song 'Your Love Awakens Me' with Phil Wickham. It appears on Wickham's Living Hope album (2019).

Quilala met his future wife, Alyssa, when she was seventeen and he was twenty-five while they were in a church in Pasadena. They have five children together: Ella, Aria, Jethro (d. 2014), Liv and Maddex. After Chris and Alyssa's son Jethro died in December 2014, they wrote the song Miracles, which appeared on Jesus Culture's 2016 album Let It Echo. The Quilala family resides in Sacramento, California.

Along with being a guitarist, Chris is also a drummer. He started his musical career playing drums for Bethel Music. He was the drummer for the albums For the Sake of the World (2012) and Be Lifted High (2011) as well as Brian & Jenn Johnson's albums, We Believe (2006) and Where You Go I Go (2008). He also featured on Bethel's debut album Here Is Love (2010) performing the song "King of Wonders".