Kendall King Gives Powerful Musical Testimony With New CD, For A Reason

King says, “It took 7 years to complete the project. There were so many different situations that came up while working on the project. First, I was having problems with my throat and found out I had a goiter on my thyroid which the doctors told me needed surgery. After overcoming that – just before going into final production – my hard drive crashed and I lost all of my music which I had to re-record. Shortly after that, my father and several other family members passed away. There was one thing on top of another. I knew then the enemy was fighting me; it was so obvious,” Kendall shares.

They say good things are worth the wait and, for Kendall, the tests just made her even more determined to do what God had commissioned her to do. “Although it was a struggle to complete it, I knew this was what God had envisioned and what He had given to me. He told me to do it so I pressed my way on,” she says. She even changed the title of the project. “God told me to rename the project For A Reason because through the loss and disappointment, I came to understand that everything happens for a reason; there’s a purpose for it all. Just because you don’t see it at the time doesn’t mean there’s not a purpose.”

Perhaps it’s the passion she feels about the project and her newfound outlook on life that makes the title cut For A Reason one of the strongest on the CD. It’s a catchy, soulful song with lyrics based on Ecclesiastes 1:11. The principal songwriter on the project, Kendall flaunts her obvious gifts on tracks like the radio-ready Glory, and the reflective ballad, I Surrender.

The lead single, My Soul Doth Magnify, a personal favorite of King’s, is already receiving airplay on the 2006 Stellar Award-winning Heaven 1580AM in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore’s WEAA 88.9FM. Listeners will love the jazzy, Ella-influenced At All Times and the spicy, funky How Excellent; both songs are definitely tracks to give Him praise to. Rain, a tune with a driving, hypnotic rhythm, finds King pleading for God to shower her with His blessings. Deftly merging R&B and gospel, she also commands attention with the urban, guitar-strummed Say So, a track about giving God the praise He’s due, and the traditional, churchy Saved, a reminder to every Christian about the deliverance found in Christ. King brings her own special touch to the song’s arrangement and breathes new life in the familiar church tune.

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