A review for a new CD from Tori Kelly called Hiding Place. For me personally I hadn’t heard of Tori Kelly before I was received the CD so I went to my music expert Charlie and asked if he had heard of Tori Kelly and like me he hadn’t. Then I asked David and he hadn’t either. So I was stumped and couldn’t figure out what kind of music does Tori plays and who if anyone had heard of Tori Kelly.
My sister Debbie stopped by to visit once she came inside she asked to use my computer as her computer wasn’t working. I went to move things off my desk so she could sit down and would have time to work. I went and moved Tori Kelly’s CD and my sister said oh I didn’t know you listen to Tori Kelly.
Once Debbie said this I knew Tori would be a Christian Musician as this is the only type of music Debbie listens to. While Debbie was here I turned on the CD and as soon as Tori began singing I was hooked and knew Tori would be a new singer I would follow as Tori’s music touched on things had been facing.
With my son being sick this week I played the CD for him and both the music and Tori’s voice calmed Charlie down and he was able to rest. This morning I got up to listen to the CD again when I noticed it was missing. My husband had taken Hiding Places to work with him because he knew his boss would enjoy Tori’s music and he wanted her to hear the CD.
David called me from work and let me know all of the employees enjoyed listening to Tori’s music and they asked David where they could purchase Tori’s Kelly’s CD. I knew everyone enjoyed her music just as much as my family did. I can’t wait to purchase more CD”S sung by Tori Kelly because I know they will make perfect Christmas Gifts for my friends and family.
I loved being able to visit You Tube this morning with Charlie and looking up Tori Kelly and finding even more songs for Charlie and I to listen to and we will be adding Tori Kelly to our Homeschool Music lessons as it will be fun learning about Tori Kelly and how she began her singing career and where she is from.
Sometimes a little music makes work easier🙂 Tori Kelly called Hiding Places L.A.-based singer/songwriter honors her deepest musical passion and delivers an R&B infused, infectiously melodic take on classic gospel album. She has teamed up with Kirk Franklin on this one, and the first single features him. Tori Kelly was the 2016 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Buy link:
While working on the follow up to her debut album Unbreakable Smile a 2015 release that premiered at #2 on the Billboard 200 Tori Kelly felt compelled to include a track that honored her life long passion for gospel music.
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With the help of her manager, Scooter Braun, the L.A. based singer/songwriter soon connected with Kirk Franklin, a 12 time
Grammy Award winning gospel artist and one of Kelly’s musical idols. “I flew to Dallas and Kirk showed me a few songs he’d written, and I fell in love with all of them,” says Kelly, a 2016 Grammy Award nominee for Best New Artist.
Next thing you know one song turned into us doing a whole album together. It just took on a life of its own. With its R&B infused, deeply melodic take on classic gospel, Hiding Place offers up what Franklin refers to as “hope pop” a classification that fully resonates with Kelly.
“One of the things I want for this album is for people to feel uplifted and encouraged when they listen,” she says. “I want them to know that, no matter what they’re going through, there’s a God who loves them so much and so unconditionally, and there’s always a reason to feel hope.
That’s what I really believe in, and I want everyone out there to hear my heart.” As Kelly explains, the title to Hiding Place draws inspiration from a line in one of her favorite psalms (“You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with songs of deliverance”). “That always stuck with me: this idea of God being a place of safety, a place where you can hide from all the crazy things that this world can throw at us,” she notes.
Produced by Franklin, Hiding Place unfolds with a lush yet simply adorned sound beautifully suited to Kelly’s incomparable voice. “I’ve worked with Mary J. Blige, Bono, Yolanda Adams, and I’ve never seen anyone that’s a monster behind the microphone like Tori Kelly,” says Franklin.
“She’d nail one song in three takes, and all those takes were amazing. It set the bar higher for my whole career. ”While half of the songs on Hiding Place were penned solely by Franklin, the remaining tracks came from a collaboration between him and Kelly the first time that Franklin’s ever co-written in a decades long career that’s seen his songs performed by legends like Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. (“It blew me away that she wanted us to co-write, because she’s a phenomenal songwriter and could’ve easily done it herself,” Franklin says.)
And at Franklin’s urging, Hiding Place was mostly recorded at his studio just outside Dallas. “The most important thing to me was that if Tori wanted to do a gospel album—a real, authentic, heart-throbbing gospel album– she’d have to come to the South,” he says. “Then she showed up at my studio with no entourage, no handlers- just Tori and her guitar, standing at my front door.”
“With gospel music, you can’t sing without all your heart being in it,” says Kelly. “This album was an opportunity to not only express my faith and my love for God, but to do what I felt and never hold back. I could just be free and let the song take me over.”
Thank you,
Glen a, Charlie and Davis and Cates
