Jackie Hill Perry has always had a passion for words: as a child she would lie in bed writing songs, in high school she tried her hand at rapping, in college she wrote poetry, and as an adult she began writing books and giving speeches.
“Even if it’s Scrabble, I’ll play Scrabble all day, because there are words in it,” she said with a laugh.
In June, Perry’s unique talent for words led to her signing a record deal with Reach Records, the label founded and signed by Grammy Award-winning artist Lecrae.
It’s a return to Christian hip-hop. PerryIn 2014, he released an album on a different label (The art of joy) and 2018 (crescendoAfter releasing “I Am Yours,” he took a long break from music.
“I crescendo“I had a conversation with God about my future, my life, what I was going to do with my talents,” Perry told Crosswalk Headlines, “and I felt a sense from God that I needed to make a decision about what I was going to do with my time, because I had limited bandwidth. [and] Our family was growing.”
After her 2018 album, she Selected She puts most of her energy into teaching because “I feel that opening the Bible and teaching people is what makes me happy and gives me joy.”
“So I put music on the back burner.“ She said:
Then last year, Perry decided to take a two-year break from writing songs, “which made me think, ‘Hmm, maybe I still have some breathing room and maybe I still have some breathing room to get back into music.'”“
Lasanna Ace Harris of Reach Records, who attended Perry’s church, encouraged her to return to music.
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