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Brittany Henry

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE LYRIC

ne night in the back seat of my car (The only place
OI had to be alone) I was singing worship songs and
trying to pray but I was just so perplexed and distraught.
Nothing was easing my grief.

I felt hopeless and defeated. I was utterly deflated. My
heart was brought low and I struggled to sing a single
word or feel anything. I started reading my bible and
singing through the words. And there it was right there
staring up at me from the pages. The encouragement I
needed to keep going was so simple.

The one thing that was breaking me so much was the one
thing I wasn’t trusting God with. I was holding it all inside
as if I had no helper, no solution, no hope. Right there,
reading the bible and spontaneously singing the words to
a new melody, hope sprouted up in my heart from a seed
that had always been there.

“Bring it to me. You don’t understand my heart. I long to
help you. No one who seeks leaves empty-handed,” I kept
singing over and over.

This song was written from a place of desperation and
pain. It is my most prized gift to humanity because it
cost me something to write it and cost me something to
produce it. It is my deep desire that everyone who hears it
hopes again.

Brittany Henry is new to the music industry but not new churches.
to music. Born in 1986, Henry began singing in church
at just 5 years old. She was the reason her Father started Henry has led worship and youth choirs all over the
going to church. He would go just to see her sing. United States and this year recorded her first studio single.
In just one month the single has garnered over 18,000
From that time forward she sang and played instruments streams on Spotify alone.
in churches everywhere. She was praised amongst
churchgoers for her talent. However, in school, she Henry is actively producing a follow-up single with
struggled to read music and was kicked out of the High Richmond’s own Urban Doxology music director and
school marching band. independent artist, IAMSON. She also is expecting the
release of a third single before the end of the year with
Full of rejection and teen angst she found solace in an L.A. based producer Jesse Singer. Singer, has worked with
eclectic mix of artists like Sheryl Crow, NIN, Jewel, and big-name artists such as Donnie McClurkin, John Legend,
The Dixie Chicks. She taught herself to play the guitar. and Andy Grammer.
Her first guitar was actually a gift intended for her
brother. Henry’s music career is taking off fast from a solid foun-
dation built in the wilderness.
From there she started writing her own songs and one day
while listening to the radio she heard a song by Micheal A link to the song:
W. Smith, “I’ll be your friend for a lifetime and I won’t https://soundcloud.com/heartlett-music/whatever-it-is
walk away in the hard times. I will be your friend.”
Links to website/pages
That same day she made God her friend and her music BrittanyHenryMinistries.org
changed. She started writing songs about her relation https://www.instagram.com/brittanyhenryministries/
ship with God and eventually began leading worship for https://www.facebook.com/brittanyhenryministries/

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