Tiffany Hudson
Today, award-winning songwriter and worship leader Tiffany Hudson releases her solo debut, Hidden Here. A member of the GRAMMY® Award-winning group Elevation Worship and a worship leader at Elevation Church, Hudson is behind songs such as “Graves Into Gardens” and “More Than Able,” many from the GRAMMY-winning project Old Church Basement, among others.
“This began a personal journey of sitting with Him, writing, co-writing, and desiring to present the things He placed in my heart. It’s always a humbling experience to try and pen God’s wonder. It’s a weight and a responsibility to put confessions in other people’s mouths to say to God.”
How does it feel to have your debut release Hidden Here out in the world?
After carefully and prayerfully working on these songs for a year, I’m filled with gratitude to finally have them released to the world.
The day of the release felt weighty, because I knew how much these songs meant to me and how deep the confessions I was making to the Lord through them. But simultaneously, releasing them felt like a relief. It felt like the pressure was lifted off my shoulders as I gave this first little offering to the Lord.
You felt an opening from the Lord in early 2022 to make a solo artist career part of your story. Can you tell us more about hearing this invitation from the Lord?
I never had it in my heart to do a solo project, honestly because I felt like I had nothing important to say.
In early 2022, when I would sit with the Lord and write at my piano, it felt like a flip switched and suddenly had lots on my heart that felt important to say. The songs I began to write & co-write didn’t feel like ones we would sing at church as a team. They felt like my own personal responses and confessions to the Lord. I’m so grateful to my church and pastor that gave me the green light to explore what these songs could turn into.
It was a beautiful, messy, journey of discovery which ultimately ended up as an 8-song album that I pray could lead people into deeper devotion with the Lord.
About the writing process you’ve said: “It’s always a humbling experience to try and pen God’s wonder. It’s a weight and a responsibility to put confessions in other people’s mouths to say to God.” How do these songs steward this responsibility?
When I write, I always have the thought: “who am I to possibly try and describe the God of the universe, who was here before me and will be here after me”? What a weight and responsibility that is to try and pen who he is.
But I believe in every generation, there is a responsibility to proclaim the goodness of God.
This album is filled with confessions of surrender and devotion. The Lord has taken me through different seasons that produced these prayers. My hope for this project is that the Lord would invite the listener into a similar trust-walk that He took me on, so that ultimately it would lead the listener to a deeper lever of surrender to Him.
Tell us about working with Steffany Gretzinger, Mitch Wong, and Joe L. Barnes as collaborators on “Break The Bottle” and “Togetherness.”
Steffany Gretzinger has been a shining example to me for years of what it means to be a true worshipper of Jesus, on and off the platform. Her voice and songs have led me to His feet many times, so when she agreed to write for this project, I felt so incredibly grateful. We wrote the song “Break The Bottle” along with Jason Ingram and Josh Holiday. The day felt worshipful and meaningful. I’m still filled with gratitude that she added her heart and voice to this project.
In 2020, Mitch Wong, Joe L Barnes, and I wrote the song “Togetherness.” Our country was in a season of heavy division and confusion. It was in the middle of all of that, where we wrote this cry for unity.
We felt so aligned with the message of the song while writing it, so it only made sense to have the two of them join their voices on this project.
How did writing these songs shape your own personal testimony?
The Lord truly took me through a season of learning what it meant to walk with him in every moment.
In a lot of ways, it felt like the Lord had woken me up to the reality that He is coming back for His bride, and how that should affect every part of my life. As this conviction grew in my heart, the confessions followed. This album is my response to the Lord, and all he showed me.
It’s my vow to live fully and only for Him. This album truly signifies a part in my story where everything changed.
Tiffany Hudson | Hidden Here
Lead songs from Hidden Here with your congregation. Resources available at MultiTracks.com.