Join TAYA this Spring for the Come Into The Light Tour, a transformative worship experience featuring her latest single by the same name, as well as other new songs from her upcoming record.
“This tour is something I felt God drop in my heart over 2 years ago to do here in the United States, but for different reasons, it never eventuated…until now. I believe God’s timing and His alignment is perfect — and without either, I wouldn’t be walking into these nights with the stories and songs I now am.""
Each night will be an invitation to pause and lay your life before God — every good, messy, broken, and sweet piece — and allow Him to have it all. You won’t want to miss these powerful nights of surrender in the Presence of Jesus, where we can Come Into The Light together and rediscover that He truly is everything He promised to be.
TAYA
Taya Gaukrodger comes from a country town in the north of Australia. In 2010 she relocated to Sydney to pursue a career in music. Soon after arriving she got involved at Hillsong Church and began volunteering in youth, and young adult ministries. The world first heard TAYA’s voice in Hillsong United’s ‘Oceans’ and ‘Touch The Sky’ and from that moment, her voice became an unmistakable clarion call to worship across the world. TAYA is most passionate about worship that points people to Jesus and her hope is to lead people to worship more authentically and passionately as they discover more about Him.
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Leeland
Leeland is a Texas-based band made of lead singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
Leeland Mooring alongside guitarist and co-writer Casey Moore. They came to the forefront of the worship music sphere in 2004 and debuted their first project in 2006. Fast forward to now, after seven albums, four GRAMMY® nominations, and eight GMA Dove Award® nominations under their belts, Leeland have become one of the most significant and standout voices in a new generation of worship music. Their lives, ministry, and music are a true extension of their passion to simply worship God personally and in community.
“Although our genesis as a band was in the Contemporary Christian Music artist stream, we’ve always been local church pastor’s kids,” explains Mooring who spent his childhood going from town to town with his parents who ministered music in tandem with being traveling evangelists.
“Half of the songs on our first studio album came out of intimate youth group worship services in our house or wherever we could meet,” he adds.
Originally formatted as a pop/rock outfit readying commercial songs for radio, Leeland released their debut album, Sounds of Melodies, in 2006. Spawning a GRAMMY nomination and multiple Dove Award nods, the record trailblazed a new path of artistic and Levitical worship led by the band. Mooring explains that the bulk of Leeland’s songs have always been inspired by the communion of worship. More recently, Mooring co-wrote one of the Church’s most-sung standards, “Lion and the Lamb”, with seasoned writers Brenton Brown and Brian Johnson. The song cemented his personal status as a young veteran in the sphere of modern worship music, further affirming that Leeland as a collective are drawn into crafting songs that court congregations across the globe to worship God through the act of singing – and singing together.
The last few years have been more hidden for Leeland, allowing them to dig deep into rich ideas and the unending depth of the Scriptures. Carrying on the legacy of their unique voice in the worship world, they released a new album, “City of God” in early 2023 which leaned into a fearless exploration of a pastoral and prophetic voice of worship where songs are sung together and over the people of God. This project infused beauty and truth into culture through songs of hope, intimacy, safety and God’s justice. A feature track off the project is “Heart and Flesh” which features TAYA. This song expresses the inward desire of all creation to worship God. Leeland continues to pave the wave in writing beautiful melodies for corporate worship.
