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And there's actually a line in the song that says, I got to keep breathing. You know, nobody was there to encourage them, you know, like this song and say, keep breathing, keep believing. Family and friends weren't able to be there to hold their hands. And one of the hardest parts about those deaths was that they were alone. And when COVID-19 hit so hard in that area, she was actually one of the ones who didn't make it, you know. At the beginning of the pandemic, I actually lost a cousin. Did you have one?ĬOBBS LEONARD: Yeah, I mean, several. MARTIN: For so many of us, there were so many low points over the past 12 months. I just got to believe.ĬOBBS LEONARD: (Singing) There's a rainbow behind the clouds, sun is bursting out. There's a lyric in the song that says, you know, there has to be a reason for these tears and an answer to these prayers.

It was unexpected, heartbreaking, but I think so supernatural about the peace that my family and I felt because of our faith. You know, I thought about seven years ago when I lost my father, you know, this is the most devastating thing. All I have to depend on and to lean on is my faith.ĬOBBS LEONARD: (Singing) That it's going to work out like I knew it would. And I just had this thought, man, but I got to keep believing. MARTIN: The song is called 'You Gotta Believe.' And the more we talked, the more Tasha revealed how much she, too, needed to hear this message.ĬOBBS LEONARD: My husband and I, we were in the middle of making several decisions about life moving forward. And that's a pretty good segue way to the song Tarsha wrote for us because to start a new venture in the middle of a pandemic, you really do got to believe.ĬOBBS LEONARD: (Singing) I just gotta believe there is goodness around the corner and something better is in store for me. MARTIN: The lead pastors of a blossoming virtual - for now - church. We're going to share some encouraging words with you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so we put out a flyer saying, hey, guys, meet us on Zoom this Thursday. And we felt the pull to just launch, like, a Bible study online. I mean, was that just a horrible coincidence that was the time frame you had - you were just going to stick to it or did you start it because of the pandemic?ĬOBBS LEONARD: We felt like this is a moment where people really need God. And last spring, as the pandemic was raging and everyone else was scaling back, they decided to take the plunge.

She and her husband dreamed of starting their own church. MARTIN: And over time, Tasha came to embrace that vision for herself. But my father actually - he was really cultivating the communicator in me, the preacher, teacher. MARTIN: Last year, Billboard magazine named Tasha Cobbs Leonard gospel artist of the decade, but Tasha says her father, the late Bishop Fritz Cobbs, had a different vision for her.ĬOBBS LEONARD: (Laughter) He loved gospel music. And from that moment until this one, I have been leading worship.ĬOBBS LEONARD: (Singing) I hear the chains, I hear the chains falling. And I looked at my parents like, OK, there's something special here (laughter). And when I opened my eyes, people were crying, people were in worship. MARTIN: But one day, when someone from her youth choir didn't show up, Tasha had to cover.ĬOBBS LEONARD: And I had to end up singing the song 'Now Behold The Lamb' by Kirk Franklin. MARTIN: She's been at it since she was really little.ĬOBBS LEONARD: Man, probably 6 years old, and I sang 'I Believe The Children Are Our Future' at a kindergarten.ĬOBBS LEONARD: So maybe I was, like, 9 because I was singing at my cousin's kindergarten graduation.ĬOBBS LEONARD: And after that, I literally did not sing lead in front of a crowd until I was 15 years old. COBBS LEONARD: (Singing) There is power in the name of Jesus.

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