S8E36 - I Grew Up On Rock And I’m Not Hiding It

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Forget tidy boxes. I grew up harmonizing to soft rock while training my voice in gospel, and that mix still shapes every note I sing and every song I love. Today I open that door and invite you into the real soundtrack—Queen on the shelf next to Bread and America, melody-led and lyric-first, clean and crafted.

We unpack why people are shocked when a gospel singer loves classic rock, and why that surprise misses the point. Genre is a frame; craft is the picture. I talk through the bands that raised my ea...