Chip and Denny Feature Singer Songwriter Kenna Turner West On the Gospel Jubilee

Kenna Turner West, recording artist, multi-Dove Award-winning songwriter, and five-time Songwriter of the Year, will be the featured artists this week on The Gospel Jubilee.Listen to the Gospel Jubilee on your Echo device by saying, Alexa, play the Gospel Jubilee on Apple podcast.Or go to: https://api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/47103586/download.mp3ABOUT KENNA TURNER WESTKenna Turner West has co-written hit songs such as “Say Amen,” “Revival,” “Small Town Someone,” and “Even Me.”Her many successes have come as no surprise to her friends in the music industry; some might even say that it “runs in the family.Kenna’s father is bass singer Ken Turner, who sang for many years with the legendary Blackwood Brothers Quartet. Her mother-in-law is country music icon Dottie West, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2018.With roots that are firmly planted in gospel music, Kenna’s career began in 1983 as a vocalist. In time, however, God began to open a new facet of ministry for the singer.“I had been writing songs for years,” she recalls, “but it was more like journaling with rhyme. Yet there was a season of time around 1997 or 1998, when we were losing my grandmother to dementia and my mom was diagnosed with a tumor near her brain, that I began to see life intersecting with Scripture.The verses that God was using to bring me peace and comfort suddenly began to take on a melody, and I’d write it down. Then one night at church, a friend encouraged me to record some of the songs, so I did; then another friend who worked for a record company gave the songs to the publisher at thelabel, and within a week, the trajectory of my life had completely changed.”Kenna got her first cut shortly thereafter (“A Taste of Grace”), followed by her first radio single (“We’re Not Gonna Bow”), which reached #1 on the national charts as well as earning the new songwriter her first of eleven Dove Award nominations.Twenty years later, Kenna has penned over a thousand songs and has garnered over 100 “Song of the Year” nominations, along with 25 “Song of the Year” winsand 8 BMI Awards. As a staff writer for Curb|Word Music Publishing in Nashville, her songs have appeared on GRAMMY® Award-winning projects by both JasonCrabb and Hillary Scott (of Lady A), as well as eight GRAMMY® nominated recordings.You can also find her work on projects by artists such as The Martins, The Isaacs, Michael English, The Crabb Family, Finding Favour, Charles Billingsley, Take 6, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Booth Brothers, Wes Hampton and AdamCrabb of the Gaither Vocal Band, Triumphant Quartet, Travis Cottrell, Jimmy Fortune (of The Statler Brothers), The Collingsworth Family, Brian Free & Assurance,Marty Raybon (of Shenandoah), Joseph Habedank, Karen Peck & New River, Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Nelons, Selah, The Blackwood Brothers, Mac Powell (of ThirdDay), and many more.Additionally, Kenna has created six musicals for the church, including Word Music’s best-selling “We Are Witnesses,” along with the Dove Award-nominated projects, “Love Won” and “Christmas Is in The Heart.”In 2020, Kenna signed as an artist with Crossroads Music Group and released her long-awaited project, “A Reason for Hope,” in the summer of 2021.“I am so excited about this new chapter of life,” she shares. “It is as if everything that the Lord has allowed me to do for Him over the last 38 years has ledto this moment.”Kenna’s career in gospel music has indeed come full circle. The author and board-certified Biblical counselor—who is currently pursuing a master’s degreein theology—continues to blend music, devotional teaching, and humor into a ministry that reaches across the nation and around the world with the goodnews of the Gospel. Whether she is writing songs on Music Row or ministering alongside noted Christian leaders at venues ranging from The Pentagon to NASCARchapels to the local church, Kenna’s life has a singular call: to creatively communicate the Living Hope found in Jesus Christ.“It’s all I have wanted to do since I became a Believer,” she confesses, “and I feel so incredibly blessed that God is still allowing me to do just that.”For more information about Kenna’s music and ministry, or to book her for an event, contact her office at [email protected] can now catch The Gospel Jubilee Thursday afternoons at 4:00 PM and Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM EST on Southern Branch Bluegrass RadioGo to www.sbbradio.orgYou can also catch The Gospel Jubilee Saturday evenings at 7:00 and Wednesday afternoons at 4:00 CST on Radio For Life.Go to: www.RadioForLife.orgPlaylist: Artists | Song Title | Album01. Greater Vision - Never will I ever again - “As We Speak”02. Ernie Haase & Signature Sound - Make us one - “Keeping On”03. Barry Rowland & Deliverance - The Ark - “It Is Time”04. Kenna Turner West - Doubt the storm - "A Reason For Hope"05. Kenna Turner West - Calling all prodigals - "A Reason For Hope"06. The Chuck Wagon Gang - Love is the key - “Radio Days”07. The Bledsoes - I'm glad I'm saved - “Trusting”08. The Vaughn Family - All over again - “Closer”09. The Carr Family - Peace that covers all the pain - “For All He’s Done”-10. Three Days Journey - Every knee shall bow - "Every Knee Shall Bow - Single"11. The Mark Trammell Quartet - The hem of His garment - "God Has Provided"12. Kenna Turner West - The center of it all - "A Reason For Hope"13. Kenna Turner West - We march on - "A Reason For Hope"14. Kenna Turner West A reason for hope - "A Reason For Hope"15. The Clark Family - I don't want to go back - “Satisfied”16. The Kingsmen - Called out - “Kingsmen Across America”17. The Goodman Revival - I don't want to get adjusted - “Songs In The Key Of Happy”18. Brian Free & Assurance - What the cross really is - “Looks Like Jesus EP”19. The Bowling Family - I know enough - “Safe…After The Storm”-20. The Old Paths - The fire still burns - “Decade”21. The Torchmen Quartet - Reach out to Jesus - “Hymns - Least We Forget”-22. The Williamsons - Jesus, what a wonderful name - “Give Them Jesus”23. The Taylors - The same - “Salvation’s Song”24. Southern Raised - Wanna be - “Another World”Send your request to:[email protected]