Everything that happened in the moment was captured and kept, imperfections and all. 2, recorded with well over 100 people present and participating in an Atlanta studio shortly before the pandemic, has the warm rustle of a worship service combined with a demo session and a campfire jam. The freewheeling approach carries over to their recording process. It was actually life-giving for people.” The group started self-releasing its own projects in 2019, the fruit of an expanding, interracial circle of worship-leading friends who gathered to share meals, write and record. What we realised is that the representation in this space of people that weren’t white in terms of worship leaders was so refreshing for people. “Maverick City just basically started as an opportunity to make space for songwriters and people that maybe weren’t traditionally always in the CCM genre, but who identified with the genre. “Lots of people sing the same songs on a Sunday morning, no matter what type of church you go to, whether you’re a Black kid from wherever or a white kid from Mayberry,” songwriter and co-founder of the praise and worship collective Maverick City Music Jonathan Jay tells Apple Music. Maverick City Music is an American contemporary worship music collective and record label founded by Tony Brown and Jonathan Jay, originating from Atlanta, Georgia.
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