Interview: Tanya Hughes on obedience and provision
- What was Tanya Hughes's 2009 transition to full-time music like?
The hosts interview Tanya Hughes, a gospel and soul singer playing the festival's main stage Saturday at 1:25. She addresses a host she greets as Ben by name. She describes the last ten years as a preparation period, losing her husband in 2001 and other close people, and stepping out in 2009 to do music full-time out of obedience with no assured paycheck. She tells how God provided through music when her husband's state job was frozen by the Minnesota government shutdown. They discuss her eclectic style, her 2006 hymn project, and her outreach work: partnering with a friend's homeless transitional center for women and organizing a Twin Cities artist fundraiser after tornadoes hit four blocks from her home, raising over $100,000.
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