Calvin College
Festival of Faith & Music
Lenny Smith 
Lenny Smith was born in 1942 in South Philly at the Naval Hospital. His family moved from base to base most of his childhood and finally settled in South Jersey. After going to seminary to study for the Catholic priesthood, he taught high school English, Latin, and Religion, married the lovely Marian and they had five wonderful children. They worked, played ball, camped a lot, and did ballet and church for years. Lenny played guitar and sang his songs at church and at home with the family. They eventually became known as the Danielson Famile. Daniel started recording himself and others and eventually recorded Lenny singing some of his songs for an album, Deep Calls To Deep. He now has about 180 songs, having begun writing songs in the late 60s for the folk masses at the seminary. He has only one hit, "Our God Reigns," but if he lives to be 95, that will give him plenty of time for more hits. Lenny did carpentry for 30 years, but lately has been working successfully to place tracks from artist friends in movies, TV, and ads. He plans to release a new album every 2-3 years for the rest of his life.