About Us

Lee and Dianne Turner are natives of Jacksonville, Florida. They both have attended church since childhood and were baptized at Main St. Baptist Church. They met as teenagers on a church outing
and were sweethearts at Andrew Jackson High School. They married while Lee was an Advertising
major at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

While at the University of Florida, Lee was pianist for The Dream Weavers, who had a popular
twice-weekly radio show and performed at personal appearances. In 1955, the group recorded It's Almost Tomorrow, written by members Gene Adkinson and Wade Buff. On January 1, 1956, The Dream Weavers performed the song on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City. The song spent 22 weeks
on the charts where it reached the top ten. Another song, Into the Night (music by Lee, words by Wade
Buff), was recorded by the group that year and reached number 82 on the charts.

After graduation, Lee and Dianne moved to Louisville, Kentucky where Lee graduated with a degree
in music from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Lee was a full-time minister of music for
nearly 30 years. He served Calvary Baptist (Clearwater, FL), Main St. Baptist (Jacksonville),
Jacksonville Beach First Baptist, and San Jose Baptist (Jacksonville). While at First Baptist
Jacksonville Beach, Lee wrote an arrangement of Amazing Grace that was published by Broadman,
and has been sung by choirs all over the country. He also wrote a tune/arrangement for the Old Irish
Blessing May the Road Rise to Meet You that has been extensively used, and is in the Choir Suppliment
for The Baptist Hymnal (1991).

In the early 1970s, Lee met Dick Blanchard (then pastor of First United Methodist Church, Jacksonville,
and writer of Fill My Cup, Lord). They wrote a number of songs together, including Who Moved?, which
was recorded and sung in concerts by George Beverly Shea. Meanwhile, Dianne discovered her talent for
writing lyrics. Most of their songs have ly rics by Dianne. The Turners moved to Nashville for two years
where Lee played piano and sang on studio sessions, created piano reductions from orchestrations, transcribed music from recordings, and wrote and arranged music.