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Steven Kapp Perry is a Pearl Award-winning songwriter, playwright, and broadcaster-- the host of FM100's "Soft Sunday Sounds," Utah's most listened-to radio show.

He has released 13 original CDs and loves music, cream cheese on bagels, his wife Johanne, and whichever of their 4 children slept through the night. Visit him online at StevenKappPerry.com.

You can reach him via e-mail at skperry@desnews.com.

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'Santa Biblia,' the audio version

By Steven Kapp Perry

Friday, Oct. 09, 2009

Read all of Steven's past columns here

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Alternatively, you can download the MP3 to play on an iPod or MP3 player.

Also, you can click here for “Soft Sunday Sounds”, streaming LDS music from FM100.

Years in the making, the new print publication of "Santa Biblia," or the Holy Bible, by the LDS Church, now has an audio counterpart.

Omar Canals, the executive producer for the project and one of the readers, recounts the effort to capture the spirit in the recordings, the differences between English and Spanish, and how these new audio recordings can bless members around the world.

That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull…

E-mail: skperry@desnews.com
Bringing music and interviews to Latter-day Saints and their friends worldwide, The Cricket and Seagull features the unique voices of authors, artists, musicians, scholars, and fellow Saints. Pull up a chair and join us for The Cricket & Seagull Fireside Chat!

The Cricket and Seagull appears as a weekly Podcast at TheCricketAndSeagull.com, through iTunes, and can be heard streaming online on Soft Sunday Sounds at FM100.com, Saturdays at Noon.

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