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Biography

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    • James Katina
    • Jesse Katina
    • Joe Katina
    • John Katina
    • Sam Katina

The Katinas are a Contemporary Christian music group. The family of five brothers hails from American Samoa, and moved to Washington, USA after the death of their mother in 1988. The group's members sang in church as children, and began playing fairs, soon moving up to nationwide slots opening for R. Kelly, Jasmine Guy, DC Talk, and Amy Grant. The group signed to Gotee Records and have released several albums on the imprint, including a 2006 retrospective entitled Collection.

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The Katinas

Contemporary Christian music group

Musical artist

The Katinas are a contemporary Christian music group. They are a family of five brothers. The group's members sang in Assembly of God church as children, and began playing fairs, soon moving up to nationwide slots opening for R. Kelly, Jasmine Guy, DC Talk, and Amy Grant.[1]

The group was signed to Gotee Records and have released several albums on the imprint, including a 2006 retrospective entitled Collection. Shortly after their 2006 "Collection" Release, their contract with Gotee expired. It was not renewed, and they are no longer signed to a label. Their album "Still" was independently released in August 2008. They performed at UCLA in 2009 from June 30 – July 2 for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,[2] and played in the Harvest Crusade of 2008, 2009, and 2013.

Following the devastation of the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami, the Katinas put on a benefit concert called "Hope for Samoa". It took place at the Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, just outside Nashville,

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by Susan Graham Mathis

Finding true freedom was a hard journey for the Katinas.

The Katina children grew up in a home defined by fear, alcoholism and abuse. Their father had served in the Vietnam War and returned home a broken and violent man. Later, when their father became a Christian and then a pastor, he still ruled with an iron fist, expecting near perfection from his family. The fear continued and so did a facade of being the perfect Christian family.

“We viewed God like we viewed our dad—strict, hard and expecting perfection,” Joe Katina says. “You don’t mess up—or else. Dad was a retired Marine and a preacher—not fun when you’re a kid. We were scared of him.”

So for the Christian music band The Katinas (comprised of five of the 12 Katina children), learning that God was different from their childhood image of Him meant a painful journey of understanding and forgiving their dad. “We’ve learned that you have to confront the not-so-good things in your family and deal with them,” Sam Katina says.

Childhood wounds

Sam, Joe, Jesse, John and James and their siblings w

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