Kelly Willard's latest album
Kelly Willard: More Than Life
By Glenn Hascall
If you have listened to praise music over the years you have become familiar with a voice. This voice provided a clear call that seems to leave you wanting to know the Jesus she was singing about. The voice belongs to Kelly Willard.
Kelly has supplied vocals on projects by Fernando Ortega, Lenny Leblanc and Jim Cole along with dozens of others. Her vocal presence can be found most notably on classic praise projects from Marantha! In fact, she provided vocals on all but four of the twenty projects released in the “Praise” series.
In reviewing her latest album, ‘Paga’, (pronounced PAW-GAH) I was once again taken to a familiar place, one that invited me to sit at the feet of Jesus and declare His wonder, glory and majesty.
For more than two years I had been working to coordinate an interview with Kelly, but unknown to me at the onset of my request life had become an emotional whirlwind for her. Kelly’s eighteen year-old daughter, Haylie, had taken her own life and both of Kelly’s parents had passed away. All of this happened in a very short period of time.
To read this excellent interview, you need to go to: http://www.faithwriters.com/article-details.php?id=68148
or read her first interview, posted on brokenbelievers.com: http://brokenbelievers.com/2009/09/23/out-of-the-darkness-interview-with-kelly-willard/
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GREAT, so much info in one place. A great resource. So it’s not just us out here suffering, but someone like Kelly Willard! Pain produces growth. THe more painful, the greater the growth. The closer we get to Him the more darkness we see in ourselves.