Ron Crandall has been singing Southern Gospel music for more than 30 years all over the state of Texas.
Ron started with a group of guys from the east side of Houston who called themselves the Valdaires. This talented group sang together for 13 years and built a stellar reputation.
Ron later joined The Gospel Echoes, a group that became Brighter Day.
Having seen the incredible success of groups like Greater Vision and The Booth Brothers, Ron tossed out the idea of developing a trio. Brighter Day is the result.
Ron and his wife Janice are members of Champion Forest Baptist Church and are parents of two grown sons, Ron, Jr. and Paul, who live with their families in the Houston area.
Roger Clayton loves to sing, and if you've heard him, you know that he loves to move. A lot. There's even a story that Roger's first choir director taped an "X" on the stage to keep him in one place during performances. Roger ignored him.
Roger joined The Gospel Echoes (the forerunner of Brighter Day) in 2006, and we're ever so grateful that we found him.
Roger and his wife Karen live in Houston, and have been members of Bear Creek United Methodist Church for more than 20 years. Roger leads the contemporary music ministry at Bear Creek, and Karen is the heartbeat of numerous ministries within the church and the community.
Their daughter, Allison, and her husband Terry live in Kyle, TX. Their son Roger lives in Lindale, TX with his wife, Rebekah, serving as Associate Pastor at First United Methodist Church.
Bryan Dar
win
has been
singing
since childhood, and spent four wonderful years with the Texas A&M
University Singing
Cadets. In the spring of 1979, Bryan, through an
assembly of people and circumstances that only God could have
orchestrated, gave his heart to Jesus Christ.
Son Josh and his wife
Kylee live in Katy, TX with son, Caleb. Bethany, his
daughter, and her husband, Kevin, live in Crockett, TX with their beautiful children, Dana and Ethan.
In early 2001, Bryan met Ron Crandall and accepted an invitation to sing
with The Gospel Echoes.
Bryan is a long-time member of Cypress Bible Church and teaches junior high mathematics in Katy ISD.