Video: Tasha Cobbs Leonard Ft. Jennifer Hudson & Ricky Dillard

November 10, 2022331 views0

Video: Tasha Cobbs Leonard Ft. Jennifer Hudson & Ricky Dillard

2022-11-10T13:30:22+01:00

By Church News

GRAMMY, Billboard Music, Stellar, and Dove Award-winning musician and songwriter Tasha Cobbs Leonard, has released a performance video for “It Is Well” featuring Jennifer Hudson and Ricky Dillard.The track is from Leonard’s latest release HYMNS, one of the biggest gospel albums of the year produced by Motown Gospel. There’s something utterly timeless about Leonard’s extraordinary new work; something at once both warmly familiar and breathtakingly fresh.Captured in front of a live audience of more than 3,000 at The Greenwood Oasis on the campus of New Life Southeast in Chicago, the record is a larger-than-life reimagining of classic hymns of love and grace, one that speaks to our modern world even as it reaches far beyond it.The arrangements are sweeping and cinematic, drawing on worship and gospel and even hints of country, pop, and R&B, radiating an undeniable sense of joy and fellowship at every turn.HYMNS touches all corners of gospel greatness, featuring extraordinary guests: Jennifer Hudson, Kierra Sheard, The Walls Group, Ricky Dillard, and even Mary Mary!Starting in 2006, Cobbs Leonard toured America with Pastor William H. Murphy III, of the dReam Center Church in Atlanta, Georgia for three years. Since then, she has been leading worship at the dReam Center and managing the Worship and Arts department. In 2018, she appeared as herself in the film Sinners Wanted and in 2019, Cobbs and her husband, Kenneth, founded The Purpose Place Church in Spartanburg, South CaroShe started her solo music career in 2010, with the independently self-released album Smile. The album got the attention of EMI Gospel (now Motown Gospel), and they released her EP, Grace, on February 5, 2013.This was listed on two Billboard charts: the Billboard 200 at No. 61, and ao. 2 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. The EP later reached No. 1 on the Top Gospel Albums chart. The singles “Break Every Chain” and “For Your Glory” also reached No. 1 on the Hot Gospel Songs charts.At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014, Tasha Cobbs took home Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance, winning her first Grammy. Cobbs also won Gospel Performance of the Year, Contemporary and Gospel/Urban Song (and Album) Of The Year at the 44th GMA Dove Awards.In 2015, Cobbs was awarded the Gospel Artist of the Year, at the 46th GMA Dove AwardsALSO READ Tasha Cobbs To Release New Live Recorded Album In October