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Cochren & Co.

musical band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ123260740
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Cochren & Co. is a contemporary Christian band led by singer-songwriter Michael Cochren and signed to Gotee Records.

Origin

Michael Cochren grew up in Pike County, Indiana, where music was a major part of his upbringing. After graduating school, Michael Cochren started a band with friends, later including his wife Leah Cochren, and began touring under the name Cochren & Co.

Career

Cochren & Co. signed with TobyMac's Gotee Records and released their first single for the label in 2018. The song "Church (Take Me Back)" reached the Top 10 on Billboard's Christian Airplay chart.

Cochren & Co. were nominated for Break Out Single of the Year at the 2019 K-Love Fan Awards.

In 2020, Cochren & Co.

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This entry incorporates text from Cochren & Co.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.