Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Grammy, Billboard Music, Stellar, and Dove Award-winning musician and songwriter, has released “The Church I Grew Up In,” the second single from her upcoming album HYMNS, which will be released on October 7 by Motown Gospel. Cobbs Leonard goes bigger and bolder than ever before on the new album, reimagining classic hymns of love and grace with sweeping, ambitious arrangements that draw on everything from worship and gospel to country, pop, and R&B. HYMNS was shot in front of a live audience of over 3,000 people at The Greenwood Oasis on the campus of New Life Southeast in Chicago, and it features Jennifer Hudson, Kierra Sheard, Mary Mary, The Walls Group, and others.

In celebration of the new album, Tasha Cobbs Leonard is taking to the road with performances of the new work. She will be performing at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on September 26 and will be performing at Tabernacle in Atlanta on the eve of Hymns release. More dates to follow. Information on tickets here

 

 

Tasha Cobbs Leonard recently garnered two Dove Award nominations for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year for her strength and perseverance anthem “Gotta Believe” and Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year for “Lift Every Voice.” She originally recorded “Gotta Believe” as part of NPR Morning Edition’s Song Project, a series launched during lockdown to provide an outlet for artists to write and perform an original song as a way to reflect the times. In an interview about the song’s origins, Tasha opened up about some of her personal struggles, including losing family and friends to the COVID pandemic.

About Tasha Cobbs Leonard

A pastor’s daughter born and raised in Georgia, Leonard first emerged to widespread acclaim with her breakout 2013 release, Grace, which garnered a GRAMMY, three Doves, and three Stellar Awards on the strength of its chart-topping, platinum-selling lead single, “Break Every Chain.” In the years that followed, Leonard would go on to establish herself as one of her genre’s most celebrated voices, racking up more than two billion streams across platforms, landing three more #1 singles and five #1 albums, performing with everyone from Common and Nicki Minaj to Ne-Yo and Ciara, and making national television appearances on Good Morning America, CNN’s Fourth of July, BET’s Black Girls Rock, CBC’s A Day Of Healing, and the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration. Billboard named Leonard the Top Gospel Artist of the Decade, while NPR declared her a “gospel sensation,” and Forbes hailed her as “by far one of the most successful contemporary gospel artists of our time.” A tireless advocate for empowerment and positivity, Leonard also broke new ground as an author, actress, entrepreneur, and executive pastor at The Purpose Place Church in her adopted home of South Carolina, where she co-pastors with her husband and producer, Kenneth Leonard, Jr.

Hymns Tracklisting:

  1. The Moment
  2. Burdens Down
  3. Jesus Is Mine
  4. Jesus Lover Of My Soul (feat. The Walls Group)
  5. Power (feat. Kierra Sheard Kelly)
  6. At The Cross
  7. The Church I Grew Up In
  8. Jesus What A Friend (feat. Natalie Grant)
  9. Holy
  10. Agnus Dei
  11. Surrender
  12. It Is Well (feat. Jennifer Hudson and Ricky Dillard)