{"id":12258,"date":"2018-08-24T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2018-09-28T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T00:19:09","slug":"tori-kellys-hiding-place-set-for-september-14-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/tori-kellys-hiding-place-set-for-september-14-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori Kelly&#8217;s Hiding Place Set For September 14 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>Capitol Records<\/strong> will release\u00a0<strong>Tori Kelly\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0new project,\u00a0<em><strong>Hiding Place<\/strong><\/em>, on September 14. Today the pre-order launched with the first single,\u00a0<strong>\u201cNever Alone\u201d\u00a0(feat.\u00a0Kirk Franklin). <\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">While working on the follow-up to her debut album\u00a0<em><strong>Unbreakable Smile,\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Tori shared that she wanted to honor her musical roots by recording a gospel song. Her manager, Scooter Braun, arranged a meeting with Kirk Franklin, who is one of\u00a0Tori\u2019s\u00a0musical heroes.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\u201cI flew out to Dallas and Kirk showed me a few songs he\u2019d written, and I fell in love with all of them,\u201d recalls\u00a0Tori, who received the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Women in Music Breakthrough Artist award in 2015. \u201cNext thing you know, one song turned into us doing a whole project together. I grew up on gospel music, so the fact that a legend like Kirk Franklin would take me under his wing was just a dream come true.\u201d<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em><strong>Hiding Place<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was recorded primarily at\u00a0Franklin\u2019s\u00a0studio just outside Dallas. Half of the songs were penned solely by\u00a0Franklin, while the remaining tracks came from a collaboration between the two artists \u2013 the first time that\u00a0Franklin\u00a0had ever co-written in a decades-long career that\u2019s seen his songs performed by legends like Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">In choosing a title for the project,\u00a0Tori\u00a0drew inspiration from verse 7 of Psalm 32 \u201cYou are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with songs of deliverance.\u201d<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div>Check out the video:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srGIp4LO-XM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>via IgnitionPR<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Records will release\u00a0Tori Kelly\u2019s\u00a0new project,\u00a0Hiding Place, on September 14. Today the pre-order launched with the first single,\u00a0\u201cNever Alone\u201d\u00a0(feat.\u00a0Kirk Franklin). While working on the follow-up to her debut album\u00a0Unbreakable Smile,\u00a0\u00a0Tori shared that she wanted to honor her musical roots by recording a gospel song. Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3400,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-news-and-updates","category-artists","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/TK_HidingPlace-_Cover-Art__3000x3000.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12387,"url":"https:\/\/gospelflava.com\/v2\/tori-kelly-hits-charts-with-hiding-place-cd-debut-hits-road-on-tour\/","url_meta":{"origin":12258,"position":0},"title":"Tori Kelly Hits Charts With Hiding Place CD Debut, Hits Road On Tour","author":"Gregory Gay","date":"September 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Tori Kelly\u2019s new passion project has set the record for the most first-week streams ever for a gospel album. 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