“There Will Be One Day,” the new single from Dove Award winning recording artist and speaker Cheri Keaggy’s current CD, So I Can Tell, has entered Billboard’s Soft AC/Inspirational chart at No. 24 and sits at No. 22 on the Christian Music Weekly (CMW) INSPO chart this week.
“There Will Be One Day” shares the charts with singles from some of CCM’s top artists, including Chris Tomlin, Francesca Battistelli and Kari Jobe.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled with the response this song is getting,” says Keaggy. “It speaks to the longing in our hearts for home. There are so many people navigating loss and suffering. And God is there waiting to comfort His own. Thanks to everyone who has given this song a shot at being heard. I’m so grateful!”
So I Can Tell is Keaggy’s first CD since her independent 2007 release, Because He First Loved Us. Keaggy draws on the encouragement of Scripture and her utter reliance on the comforting power of God to create an honest, engaging recording that is reflective of her emergence from a difficult season in life.
“When God has brought you through something, when He’s shown up in God-sized ways, you can’t help but testify,” says Keaggy of the new songs. “This is my ‘beauty from ashes’ project.” So I Can Tell was released on the 18-year anniversary of Keaggy’s 1994 Sparrow Records release, Child of the Father.
So I Can Tell is available on Psalm 91 Records. For more information about Keaggy and So I Can Tell, visit cherikeaggy.com.
About Cheri Keaggy:
Cheri Keaggy began her career as a worship leader at a small church in Southern California before recording her debut album on Sparrow Records, Child of the Father, in 1994. Honored with a Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Year, Keaggy has gone on to record seven additional albums, resulting in nine No. 1 songs, three Dove Award nominations and a Dove Award win. After more than two decades in music, her ministry has expanded to include speaking engagements as well.
Keaggy’s latest release, So I Can Tell, which was released in 2012 on her Psalm 91 record label, is Keaggy’s first CD since her independent 2007 release, Because He First Loved Us. Under the guidance of Gospel Music Hall of Famer and legendary guitarist Phil Keaggy, Cheri Keaggy called on the combined talents of Scott Dente and Ken Lewis from Global Genius Productions to produce So I Can Tell. The combination of rich, acoustic sounds with Cheri Keaggy’s signature plaintive vocals and searingly honest lyrics results in a project that confronts life’s realities, even when filled with despair, and offers listeners the way to navigate through the challenges to a place of hope through Christ.
Penned following the end of her nearly 23-year marriage to her high school sweetheart, So I Can Tell is a testimony of God’s goodness in the midst of pain and suffering. Like a modern day psalmist, Keaggy’s lyrics express grief, loneliness, and God’s comfort in the contemporary hymns “Bind Me To You,” “There Will Be One Day” and the arresting “Hello, God.” She echoes the apostle Paul in the memorable piano ballad “To Live is Christ” and celebrates Christ’s provision in the ukulele-based crowd favorite “Air, Food, and Water.”
Through an accessible folk-pop presentation, the album leaves listeners with a renewed sense that God is with us, no matter what. So I Can Tell is filled with the radio-ready songs for which Keaggy is known and loved. Her lush vocals lovingly caress piano ballads like the title cut and the haunting “When You Were Jesus To Me.” Her voice takes on a lilting quality in the hope-infused “Starting a New Year Today,” written on the one-year anniversary of her divorce. As an added bonus, guitar maestro Phil Keaggy closes the album with the peace-evoking benediction “Postlude: Invitation to Hope.” For more information about Keaggy and So I Can Tell, visit cherikeaggy.com. Like Keaggy on Facebook (facebook.com/CheriKeaggy) or follow her on Twitter (@cherikeaggy). For information about booking Keaggy for an event or conference, visit NewHopeManagement.com
