Mormons David Archuleta and Julianna Hough are two LDS artists who are finding big success with mainstream audiences. Archuleta’s song Crush debuted #2 on the Billboard charts and Hough recently was a headliner at the Republican National Convention. Both artists are from Utah and found success after going to Hollywood.

LDS artist Arnold Friberg also found success by going to Hollywood when movie director Cecil B. Demille asked the artist to create paintings for a new film The Ten Commandments. When the director called Friberg he was in the middle of the working on scenes from The Book of Mormon that an LDS church owned magazine, The Children’s Friend, commissioned.

The paintings Friberg created for the movie were used as a marketing tool and were taken on tour around the World. More than one million people viewed the exhibit. The art was also republished as a calendar and sold thousands of copies.