Chip and Denny Feature Singer Songwriter Kenna Turner West On the Gospel Jubilee
b'Kenna Turner West, recording artist, multi-Dove Award-winning songwriter, and five-time Songwriter of the Year, will be the featured artists this week on The Gospel Jubilee.
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ABOUT KENNA TURNER WEST
Kenna Turner West has co-written hit songs such as \\u201cSay Amen,\\u201d \\u201cRevival,\\u201d \\u201cSmall Town Someone,\\u201d and \\u201cEven Me.\\u201d
Her many successes have come as no surprise to her friends in the music industry; some might even say that it \\u201cruns in the family.
Kenna\\u2019s father is bass singer Ken Turner, who sang for many years with the legendary Blackwood Brothers Quartet. Her mother-in-law is country music icon Dottie West, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2018.
With roots that are firmly planted in gospel music, Kenna\\u2019s career began in 1983 as a vocalist. In time, however, God began to open a new facet of ministry for the singer.
\\u201cI had been writing songs for years,\\u201d she recalls, \\u201cbut it was more like journaling with rhyme. Yet there was a season of time around 1997 or 1998, when we were losing my grandmother to dementia and my mom was diagnosed with a tumor near her brain, that I began to see life intersecting with Scripture.
The verses that God was using to bring me peace and comfort suddenly began to take on a melody, and I\\u2019d write it down. Then one night at church, a friend encouraged me to record some of the songs, so I did; then another friend who worked for a record company gave the songs to the publisher at the
label, and within a week, the trajectory of my life had completely changed.\\u201d
Kenna got her first cut shortly thereafter (\\u201cA Taste of Grace\\u201d), followed by her first radio single (\\u201cWe\\u2019re Not Gonna Bow\\u201d), which reached #1 on the national charts as well as earning the new songwriter her first of eleven Dove Award nominations.
Twenty years later, Kenna has penned over a thousand songs and has garnered over 100 \\u201cSong of the Year\\u201d nominations, along with 25 \\u201cSong of the Year\\u201d wins
and 8 BMI Awards. As a staff writer for Curb|Word Music Publishing in Nashville, her songs have appeared on GRAMMY\\xae Award-winning projects by both Jason
Crabb and Hillary Scott (of Lady A), as well as eight GRAMMY\\xae nominated recordings.
You can also find her work on projects by artists such as The Martins, The Isaacs, Michael English, The Crabb Family, Finding Favour, Charles Billingsley, Take 6, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Booth Brothers, Wes Hampton and Adam
Crabb of the Gaither Vocal Band, Triumphant Quartet, Travis Cottrell, Jimmy Fortune (of The Statler Brothers), The Collingsworth Family, Brian Free & Assurance,
Marty Raybon (of Shenandoah), Joseph Habedank, Karen Peck & New River, Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Nelons, Selah, The Blackwood Brothers, Mac Powell (of Third
Day), and many more.
Additionally, Kenna has created six musicals for the church, including Word Music\\u2019s best-selling \\u201cWe Are Witnesses,\\u201d along with the Dove Award-nominated projects, \\u201cLove Won\\u201d and \\u201cChristmas Is in The Heart.\\u201d
In 2020, Kenna signed as an artist with Crossroads Music Group and released her long-awaited project, \\u201cA Reason for Hope,\\u201d in the summer of 2021.
\\u201cI am so excited about this new chapter of life,\\u201d she shares. \\u201cIt is as if everything that the Lord has allowed me to do for Him over the last 38 years has led
to this moment.\\u201d
Kenna\\u2019s career in gospel music has indeed come full circle. The author and board-certified Biblical counselor\\u2014who is currently pursuing a master\\u2019s degree
in theology\\u2014continues to blend music, devotional teaching, and humor into a ministry that reaches across the nation and around the world with the good
news of the Gospel. Whether she is writing songs on Music Row or ministering alongside noted Christian leaders at venues ranging from The Pentagon to NASCAR
chapels to the local church, Kenna\\u2019s life has a singular call: to creatively communicate the Living Hope found in Jesus Christ.
\\u201cIt\\u2019s all I have wanted to do since I became a Believer,\\u201d she confesses, \\u201cand I feel so incredibly blessed that God is still allowing me to do just that.\\u201d
For more information about Kenna\\u2019s music and ministry, or to book her for an event, contact her office at
kenna@kennaturnerwest.com
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Playlist:
Artists | Song Title | Album
01. Greater Vision - Never will I ever again - \\u201cAs We Speak\\u201d
02. Ernie Haase & Signature Sound - Make us one - \\u201cKeeping On\\u201d
03. Barry Rowland & Deliverance - The Ark - \\u201cIt Is Time\\u201d
04. Kenna Turner West - Doubt the storm - "A Reason For Hope"
05. Kenna Turner West - Calling all prodigals - "A Reason For Hope"
06. The Chuck Wagon Gang - Love is the key - \\u201cRadio Days\\u201d
07. The Bledsoes - I\'m glad I\'m saved - \\u201cTrusting\\u201d
08. The Vaughn Family - All over again - \\u201cCloser\\u201d
09. The Carr Family - Peace that covers all the pain - \\u201cFor All He\\u2019s Done\\u201d-
10. Three Days Journey - Every knee shall bow - "Every Knee Shall Bow - Single"
11. The Mark Trammell Quartet - The hem of His garment - "God Has Provided"
12. Kenna Turner West - The center of it all - "A Reason For Hope"
13. Kenna Turner West - We march on - "A Reason For Hope"
14. Kenna Turner West A reason for hope - "A Reason For Hope"
15. The Clark Family - I don\'t want to go back - \\u201cSatisfied\\u201d
16. The Kingsmen - Called out - \\u201cKingsmen Across America\\u201d
17. The Goodman Revival - I don\'t want to get adjusted - \\u201cSongs In The Key Of Happy\\u201d
18. Brian Free & Assurance - What the cross really is - \\u201cLooks Like Jesus EP\\u201d
19. The Bowling Family - I know enough - \\u201cSafe\\u2026After The Storm\\u201d-
20. The Old Paths - The fire still burns - \\u201cDecade\\u201d
21. The Torchmen Quartet - Reach out to Jesus - \\u201cHymns - Least We Forget\\u201d-
22. The Williamsons - Jesus, what a wonderful name - \\u201cGive Them Jesus\\u201d
23. The Taylors - The same - \\u201cSalvation\\u2019s Song\\u201d
24. Southern Raised - Wanna be - \\u201cAnother World\\u201d
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