Dr. D. Blake Smith
D. Blake Smith is a native of Texas and has served in various capacities of church music ministry leadership for over 17 years, including in Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian churches. His father was a Baptist music minister and member of the Texas Gospel Hall of Fame, though Blake went on to follow a very different musical career path, pursuing a professional operatic singing career, earning a doctorate, and eventually joining the faculty of the University of Delaware School of Music. He is currently in his eighteenth year at UD and serves as Coordinator of the Voice Area and Artistic and Creative Director of the university’s opera and musical theatre company, UD Lyric Theatre. He lives on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with his wife, Noélia, and son, Dalton.
