The world's largest provider of Christian music licensing will launch a Web service April 11 dedicated exclusively to family-friendly music downloads. Providing a Web outlet for an ever-growing genre that includes gospel, worship music, Christian rock and rap, www.songtouch.com will launch at the Gospel Music Awards in Nashville.

The site was the brainchild of Howard Rachinski, president and CEO of parent company Touch and founder of Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI). Rachinski is noted for creating the Church Copyright License program, which allows churches to copy and distribute music to their congregations. CCLI licenses more than 138,000 churches reaching over 21 million people in the United States.

Rachinski hopes to host the largest library of family-friendly music available on the Web. The company already has entered into agreements with music industry labels such as EMI CMG and BMG/Provident for exclusive rights to a variety of music.

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