Phil Fischer

Phil Fischer was born April 23, 1970 in the small dusty town of Wichita Falls, Texas. His mother, staying only long enough to wrap the boy in a traveling blanket, made the long journey up the Alaskan Highway which stretches over 2000 miles of dirt road leading the weary traveler to either the Yukon or Alaska, which are both located in the far, far, north. As a teenager, he once lived in a small 220 SF cabin which is still there today at KM 540 off the Alaskan Highway. At seven, Phil received an acoustic guitar as a gift and since then has composed over 400 songs, including many well know hits, most of which were sold to record labels during the early 90’s. At 14, Phil quit school and hitchhiked to Bristol Bay to begin a career working as a deck hand on fishing boats off the coast of Alaska. The work was hard and often times lasted 14 hours per day in sub below temperatures further riddled by hard seas. By 16, Phil had earned his way into the position of first mate on some of Bristol Bay’s most successful crabbing crews, long before this career was dramatized by Discovery Channel’s “Deadly Catch”. Phil is known throughout the Northwest Territories and Yukon as “little white bear”, a name given to him by his adopted native family and while Phil is not native, he is respected by many natives throughout the Canada’s and Alaska and is well known. At the age of 23, Phil moved out of the wilderness and settled in Portland, Oregon where he became self employed as a Private Investigator and part time songwriter. He also discovered .com and started the world’s first web design firm. Losing everything years later in the market crash, Phil moved to Seattle and threw himself into his music selling many of his songs to top bands of the 90’s and recording his first album “Wounded Soul” which was never released in the United States but still managed to sell almost 1.3 million copies world-wide in Asia, India, and South America. Phil’s life was riddled with trials and tribulations of all kinds but that seemed to change in the spring of 2001 when Phil met a beautiful young woman from Bellevue, Washington who brought him to Christ in November of 2001. Since then his life has changed in so many ways. Phil currently attends New Hope International Church on Mercer Island, and also serves on the Amazing Grace Ministries which is a small ministry that reaches out to the homeless in downtown Seattle and meets once a week on Friday’s. Phil also leads worship at New Hope International Church which is an international church dedicated to building discipleship and leadership. In November of 2003 Phil was married, and today he lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife Jamael and their four year old son James and his two year old son Tristan and their newborn daughter Patricia. Still not accepted by the religious status quo music system in the United States, Phil chooses to concentrate his music ministry overseas where his fan base is large and they desperately need the word. Phil’s ministry is performing concerts, and spreading the word of God in a rock style format to places of the globe where no one goes such as the Middle East. While the concerts are rock style and loud, many times the show’s end in worship and prayer for people that have never heard the word before. Phil just completed “New Believer” in the summer of 2009 which is a ballad of songs he specifically wrote for overseas listeners about the trials and tribulations of being a son of light in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.