“American Idol,” Season 8, top three finalist Danny Gokey is scheduled to release his fifth studio album “Sound of Heaven” this Friday, July 26.
Over the course of his career, Gokey has been nominated for Grammy Awards, named K-LOVE Fan Awards Male Vocalist of the Year three times, and received two Dove Awards.
“Sound of Heaven” features 11 new songs and includes collaborations with Evan Craft, Limoblaze, Naomi Raine, and Niko Eme.
Gokey told ChurchLeaders that he always starts a project with prayer, asking the Lord to speak through through him. “Because if I say what [God] says, then there’s power in my words,” he explained.
The “American Idol” alum described his new record as a “party,” saying, “everyone’s invited to it.” He also shared that the album “represents all the different sides of me.”
“When people listen to my record, I want them to understand that, it’s diverse and that there’s something for everybody,” Gokey said.
For example, Gokey’s song “Makeup” warns of how the devil is out to deceive people.
“It’s not an easy message,” Gokey told ChurchLeaders. The lines in the song say, “Wake up, I think the devil is trying to play us. He’s mesmerized us with the makeup, but it’s made up. Open your eyes, stop buying all the lies, because evil is dressing up to fool the people. Got all the saints on pins and needles, because truth is illegal.”
Gokey went on to say that the “enemy has always been putting makeup over bad things to lure us and to deceive us and to get us off track.” The real sounds of heaven speaks correction because God loves us, Gokey explained, saying, “God has a destination that’s full of life and full of hope and full of joy. But a lot of the paths that people are on, that they don’t want to be corrected [from], are going down these lanes of living life as an experiment” instead of living life according to God’s plan.
“When you experiment, there’s a lot of confusion and frustration because you don’t know the conclusion or the results at the end,” Gokey added. “Well, God has already laid out the results at the end of every path: The path of sin is death [and] the path of life is righteousness.”
