A chart-topping single has helped the newcomer turn family tragedy into “something beautiful.”
Anne Wilson grew up in Kentucky playing piano and dancing ballet but never considered singing — she dreamed of becoming an astronaut. That changed in 2017, when her older brother Jacob died in a car accident at 23. “I’d never written a song, and I’d never sang in front of anyone until [his] funeral,” recalls Wilson. She performed’s “What a Beautiful Name” at the service, and says now, “That was the first moment I felt God calling me to music.
“The root of this started out with a viral video,” he continues. “I didn’t do that, no record label did that. She was just clearly doing what she was supposed to be doing. It’s been like that the entire journey.”Jason Davis, left, and Anne Wilson photographed on September 16, 2021 at Cedarmont Farm in Franklin, Tenn.
She brought that title into the writing room and, as she remembers, “it turned out that Matthew and Jeff each had that same exact title as an idea, but we had not spoken about it at all. It was a total God thing.” She adds that “My Jesus” was the first song she wrote that broached her loss, saying, “I had written close to 100 songs by that point, but none of them had ever touched on that.”
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