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The music world has a new angel working on spreading her wings. Houstonian Rebekah Maddux El-Hakam has been a Contemporary Worship Leader at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church for quite sometime all the while writing her own songs and music, being a wife and a mother of 4.

Rebekah has been a singer since she was a tiny girl with her mother remarking at her album release party,

 

She was literally made for this moment. The more songs that she shared in worship folks would keep coming up to her after service asking how they could get these songs, how could they could share them. Part of the encouragement was that people didn't know they were her songs. People would say these tunes had been stuck in their heads all week; they would Google the lyrics and not be able to find them. It was clear she was meant to make an album. But how do you do that? How do you even make an album? Where do you start? God! That is where! So after much prayer and soul searching Rebekah and her family started this journey.

Music is an expensive industry if you want to do it correctly and El-Hakam wasn’t about to take on the load of something so special and not give it the proper attention and effort it deserved. She researched studios, producers, mastering, mass disk production, sales, cover art, photography, marketing materials, you name it she became an expert or found the best to do it with her. Putting a budget together she then turned to her friends, family, church family and strangers to help fund this new and exciting project. She turned to a funding website so folks could chip in no matter where in the world they lived. She had this to say about this process, 

She put the project on KickStarter.

While working on the funding El-Hakam was knee deep in the search for a producer. Seems a difficult task since she wasn’t even sure which city she would record the album in, Nashville or Houston. Ultimately she knew she needed to get out of her daily life to be able to really buckle down and make a great album. After finding the perfect producer in Marshall Altman (http://marshallaltman.com/) it seemed Nashville was the place to be. With the support of one of the most amazing husbands on the planet and both sets of parents their parents stepping up to take care of the four little people the beginning of this dream could finally happen.

Needless to say, the project fully funded and is in the top twenty-five of highest funded indie albums on KickStarter to date. When God gives you a dream He makes sure you can do it.  So now it’s off to promote this new worship album so keep an eye out for Rebekah Maddux El-Hakam at your church or have your worship leader get in touch with her and bring her to your church. It will be an experience you won’t soon forget.

Visit www.RebekahME.com for more information about Rebekah.

Radiant You is available on iTunes  The album is mastered for iTunes. The highest quality of mastering an album can get!

Will be on CCLI, Christian Copyright Licensing International, soon so if you’re a worship leader you will soon be able to use her songs for your church services.

Also look for Rebekah to be featured as the “New Artist to Watch” on www.NewReleaseTuesday.com this November.