Dan McMurray

Dan McMurray has spent the last 20 years at the center of the CCM/worship music world, building a career that started long before it had a name for itself.

A self-taught "pots and pans kid," Dan began playing drums weekly in church at age 6 and was working professional gigs by 12 — shaped early on by parents who encouraged him to explore every genre of music, not just the one he grew up performing in.

At 18, Dan moved to Sydney, Australia, where he became heavily involved in the music of Hillsong Church. He played on his first Hillsong Worship live recording, *God Is Able*, in 2010, and from 2010 to 2023 was part of the majority of Hillsong Worship's live and studio recordings — including the Grammy Award–winning "What a Beautiful Name." Collectively, these songs and albums have earned billions of streams across platforms. During this era he also played in the indie rock band Battleships and worked the wider Australian gig and session scene.

In 2015, Dan relocated to Los Angeles, where the industry better suited his style of drumming. Since then he has toured and recorded with artists such as Cory Asbury, Brooke Ligertwood, Lauren Daigle, Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham, Hillsong Worship, UNITED, Y&F, and Matt Redman, among many others — and has more recently begun moving into the pop and country spaces, where he plans to focus in the years ahead.

What sets Dan apart isn't just radio and streaming reach — it's the literal millions of musicians in churches around the world who learn and replicate his drum parts every week, year after year. People don't just hear his drumming; they study it, learn it, and play it themselves, which is why the same question always follows: how do you tune your drums, and what heads do you use?

In the last two years, he has begun building his own personal brand as a drummer, content creator, and voice in the music production and creator economy space.