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TobyMac is Bigger Than Ever

By Jacob Fuller

Jackson Free Press | November 30, 2012

As a member of DC Talk in the ’90s and early 2000s and a solo artist ever since, TobyMac has long known what it’s like to be at the peak of the Christian music scene.

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