Gospel artist Darwin Hobbs' fifth CD project is titled “Free” and will be released on Tyscot/Liaison Records on August 26. Hobbs is hailed as one of Gospel’s foremost praise and worship leaders.
“Free” is the first album release on Hobbs' newly formed production company Liaison Records, done in partnership with Tyscot Records and his wife Traci.
It is a 12-track album which Hobbs uses to address finally coming to terms with the sexual abuse he experienced as a child. At the age of 40, he decided to share publicly his past of childhood sexual abuse and his new-found sense of freedom.
This is also Hobbs' debut as a songwriter and producer. He wrote three songs on the CD which includes the first single, “Free,” “Heal The Land,” “The Name of the Lord," and he co-wrote “In This Place” with co-producer and songwriter Aaron Pearce.
The single and title track, “Free,” was written on the eve of Hobbs breaking his silence to his mother about a 30 year secret of sexual abuse. The perpetrator was her now deceased husband.
Darwin Hobbs is well respected by many in the Gospel/Christian community having performed with CeCe Winans, Michael W. Smith, Michael McDonald and Donnie McClurkin.
Hobbs and his wife Traci moved to Nashville from Cincinnati in 1996 and he soon after signed to EMI Gospel where he released four albums. For more information on Darwin Hobbs, please visit www.myspace.com/darwinhobbs
