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David Meece (born May 26, 1952) is an American contemporary Christian musician who enjoyed success in the mid-1980s and into the early 2010s, with more than thirty Top 10 hits, including several No. 1 songs.
David Meece went on to study music at Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he met his wife Debbie, who played viola. While attending Peabody, he experienced a religious conversion and devoted his life to Jesus. He became a youth ministry and began writing songs reflecting his Christianity, adding classical influences to pop melodies.
Possibly due to his conservatory training, Meece uses pieces of classical piano works as intros or settings for many of his songs. For example, in the song "This Time" from the album Learning to Trust, the opening section (as well as the bridge and ending tag) is from Frédéric Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude" (Op. 10, No. 12) in C minor. Also, the song "Falling Down" from the album Count the Cost is based on a sonata by Mozart. The introductory melody for "You Can Go", from the album 7, is taken from the Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A Minor (BWV 784) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Because of the prevalent use of , "You Can Go" is sometimes incorrectly connected to an advertisement in the early 1980s for the Commodore 64; the ad used the Bach Invention played by a synthesizer.
Meece was asked to appear in Billy Graham crusades, among other outreach groups and television broadcasts. He was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame on June 14, 2008, and received the 2009 Visionary Award in the Inspirational Male Soloist category.
In May 2012, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that the song earned Meece, Cook and Carroll an Emmy Awards for Best Arrangement/Composer of a Television Theme Song.
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