He is an American Christian musician and worship leader with the Jesus Culture band and formerly with the Bethel Music collective.

Quilala met his former wife, Alyssa Gulino, when she was seventeen[1] and he was twenty-five while they were in a church in Pasadena.

[3] After Chris and Alyssa's son Jethro died in December 2014, they wrote the song Miracles, which appeared on Jesus Culture's 2016 album Let It Echo.

In December 2019, Quilala was one of several evangelical Christian worship leaders to pray for President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

He was also featured on Bethel's debut album Here Is Love (2010) performing the song "King of Wonders".