Creed was a Grammy Award-winning rock band from Tallahassee, Florida that became a very successful mainstream rock band of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band announced its break-up on June 4, 2004 after three multi-platinum albums.

Their second album, "Human Clay", was released in 1999 and debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at number one, based on the strength of its first single, "Higher", which spent several weeks on the top of the rock radio charts. It wasn't until early 2000 that the single crossed over onto pop radio going to the Top Ten on the Billboard Pop Chart, and Creed became a household name.

Despite the band's continual dismissals of the label, Creed is sometimes labeled Christian rock due to the fact that earlier albums focus on questions of faith, Christianity, and eternity. The band was never signed to a Contemporary Christian music label, nor did it perform in Christian Music venues or get any widespread regular play on Christian Radio. However, the word creed itself (also the bands' namesake), denotes a popularly Christian theological concept, of absolute individual belief, usually monotheistic. Also, themes within their musical titles such as Human Clay, My Sacrifice and Arms Wide Open contain allusion to Christian theology.