About this episode

Bella Taylor Smith shares her journey from winning The Voice Australia to pursuing a full-time Christian music ministry.

Bella Taylor Smith was 17 when she got saved at a summer camp during a worship service and realized that singing was not just something she could do — it was what she was made for. Years later, when a Voice Australia application popped up on her computer during Covid lockdowns, she felt the Lord prompting her to apply. She won. And then, rather than chasing the biggest mainstream opportunity that win could have opened, she and her husband moved to Nashville to make Christian music full time. Worship, the local church, and music made for your living room: Bella shares the story behind her new EP For the Home, the companion piece to her earlier project For the House, and why she wanted to make two distinctly different kinds of music — one filled with scripture for the local church, and one intimate and honest enough to fill a home with the Lord's presence. She also tells the genuinely strange story of winning The Voice Australia by watching the pre-recorded finale on her then-boyfriend's parents' couch, the difference between Australian and American food ingredients, and what it means to be a worship leader whose goal is to disappear so the congregation can find Jesus…

People in this episode

Guest: Bella Taylor Smith

Topics covered

• Christian music
• worship
• The Voice Australia
• music ministry
• personal testimony
• music production

Keywords

• Bella Taylor Smith
• The Voice Australia
• Christian music
• worship leader
• For the Home
• For the House
• music ministry
• personal testimony

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Voice Australia

Books & works: For the Home, For the House

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