Four years ago, during a routine surgery to remove a benign tumor in his chest, the doctor nicked one of Bay’s vocal chords. It was left paralyzed and Bay was told that he would never sing again.
Bay spent the next three months in complete silence. He couldn’t even listen to music due to how our vocal chords involuntarily contract even when we hear a melody. In the midst of the silence and uncertainty of whether he’d ever sing again, it was in this place from which this happy, up-tempo pop song was birthed.
It was in that extended silence where Bay found out, in some ways for the first time, that his identity wasn’t in his talent, but in the very Creator who gave him that talent. He grew to know Jesus in a whole new way.
At the end of his 3 months in silence, Bay experienced a miracle. The doctors said that not only was the vocal chord no longer paralyzed, but something had happened they’d never seen before. There were no visible evidence it was ever injured at all!
Bay walked out of that appointment with a brand new outlook on life. The flowers were brighter and smelled sweeter, people were nicer, and music was even more powerful and moving to him than ever before. It was all Brand New!
Bay brings a unique vocal talent to the CCM world. And there’s not an up-tempo “Timberlakey” song on your desk right now. It’d be a good idea to get in on the ground floor with Bay. Once you hear him, we think you’ll agree, he’s got a big future ahead of him.
