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Jordan Feliz

What practise you go when you mix an R&B influence from childhood with a California high schoolhouse heavy metal ring and the Nashville music scene? You become ascent Christian pop artist Hashemite kingdom of jordan Feliz, one of Centricity Music's shining stars. He recently launched his freshman album, "Honey."

A single from the album, "The River," has been playing not-stop it seems on Christian radio stations. Information technology'south a very catchy, uplifting song of organized religion: "Nosotros're goin down to the river/Downwardly to the river/Downwardly to the river to pray/Let's get washed by the water/Washed past the water/and rise upwardly in amazing grace/Permit's go down, downward, down to the river/You volition leave changed/Let'due south become downward, downwardly, down to the river/Never the same."

Feliz told me recently that he grew up with his parents' love of R&B artists like Sam Cooke and Earth Air current & Burn down. His father called this the "practiced music era." By the fourth dimension Feliz realized he had the gift of a singing vocalization, he had been shaped past R&B. He said he started writing songs every bit a high school freshman. In his senior year, he joined a heavy metallic band.

"We wanted to exist the calorie-free in a dark genre, to assist people who did not take Jesus," he said. "I've kept that mentality."

Four and a half years later on he was leading worship at a church. God chosen him to showtime writing again, he said, and a friend, who is now his managing director, chosen and ready him upwardly with some writers in Nashville. He and his married woman prayed for nigh a year about moving. They finally took the plunge. The only problem was, they just had enough money to make it to Phoenix.

"Getting here was a huge role of my testimony," Feliz said. "I'm a planner. The year we prayed, I had to get my head around how to move."

Feliz did something logical. He booked tours for a ii-week period forth the road he and his wife would accept to Nashville. Then the crazy happened two weeks before the move: Every single concert cancelled for different reasons, for "crazy reasons." The couple prayed some more and felt that God was still saying "Go."

"I common cold called churches I didn't know. My first bear witness was booked on the mode to LA for a Saturday night worship. Each prove got u.s. to the next point."

However, "outside Texas, everything started aging." Feliz called friends to observe a venue in Oklahoma City. He connected with a new church, located in a befouled of all places. Feliz was offered $100 to play three services. "I idea information technology's ameliorate than nothing. I got at that place and was excited. The befouled was awesome." Another trouble arose, it seemed — almost all the church building members were attention a memorial related to the Oklahoma Metropolis Bombing. Feliz had an audience of 26  — yep, 26 — spread over three services.

And then he experienced a God thing: He collected honey offerings totaling more than $ane,500. One homo gave him a check for $300 and said he felt that God wanted him to give that amount.

"We pulled out of the lot while I was crying," he said. "I made money to move" versus breaking even.

Later, the struggling artist with a pregnant married woman left a job as a valet parker to drive for Uber part-time. There was one issue: the couple was already sharing an quondam car. A friend agreed to sign up with Uber as well and so both men could take reward of a hiring promotion to win $1,000. The friend delayed past a few weeks and Uber had started a new promo: get a gamble to win a Prius. Win the Prius he did.

"I had never won anything in my life. Uber asked me to be at that place (for the drawing). I think I was in a brusque drawing. I was similar, 'Wow.'"

One month afterwards, the couple had a daughter.

"That was a blessing on top of a blessing."

When he was writing "Beloved," he realized his babyhood memories of R&B were pouring out of him. He turned that into mod Christian music. The song "Beloved" is written for his daughter. The vocal says you lot are not what the lies of this world tell you.

"The earth would tell her she's not good enough. Just she is beloved by me and her Savior. Having her gives me more respect for God's children and how God looks at us. Your relationship in Christ does not have to be hard. You are loved by Him."

Feliz is currently writing music for his adjacent album and spending time with his family unit. He will hit the road next spring with Big Daddy Weave and Plumb in the Beautiful Offering Tour. He should have an easier time getting from Point A to Point B then.

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