BENITA WASHINGTON

In 2004, Benita Washington released HOLD ON to rave reviews. In it’s first week out HOLD ON hit multiple slots on Billboard including: 6 Top Gospel Albums, 16 Top Mainstream Christian Albums, 27 Top Current Contemporary Christian Chart and 30 Top 50 Albums Chart. HOLD ON would go on to chart again several different times over the next year and the lead single “Thank You” reached number three on the gospel radio charts and remained there three consecutive weeks. In 2005, HOLD ON garnered a Soul Train Lady of Soul nomination for BEST GOSPEL ALBUM alongside industry greats Dorothy Norwood, LaShun Pace, and Kierra “KiKi” Sheard.Standing on the promise of Proverbs 18:16, Benita has indeed had the opportunity of working with the industry’s finest. HOLD ON afforded her the privilege to work with industry veteran Super Producer and Grammy Award Winner Asaph “Alex” Ward, producers Roger Ryan and Fred Vaughn, veteran song writer V. Michael McKay, Bishop Paul S. Morton and many others. Benita also has toured the US extensively with Gospel legend CeCe Winans, opening on the second leg of the critically acclaimed Throne Room Tour in early 2005. Not only a solo artist, Washington has played a supporting role on several projects including the 2005 release for the group Anointed and the 2005 RIAA Certified Gold release Piece of my Passion from Prophetess Juanita Bynum.Prophetess Bynum gave Benita her national TBN television debut May 2005 on the Mother’s Day Praise the Lord Special currently airing in syndication. Many have written Benita Washington Ministries expressing how the power of God touched them through her ministry that night. Anyone who sees Benita minister live will be affected by God’s power, love, and precious Holy Spirit and will leave with a renewed sense of hope for the future and an assurance that despite all, God is in control.Benita spent most of 2005 recording, touring, and ministering at many different venues. God is steadily opening doors for her that no man can shut! Benita’s most recent collaboration with her husband, Delvin, was the birth of their daughter in November 2005. Preparing for the birth of their first child has truly been an awe- inspiring event for Benita and her husband and has shown them first hand the creative power of God Almighty.With the New Year on the horizon, Benita is working toward the highly anticipated release of her sophomore album Renaissance. “I want more than anything for people to gain a renewed outlook from this project. I want God’s name to be praised and for HIM to receive all the glory!” Recorded September 29, 2006 LIVE in Nashville, TN, the album is set for a mid-March release; Renaissance is already being hailed as Benita’s best work to date. “I am looking forward to sharing with the world the greater level of anointing God has placed on my life since the release of my first album. He has shown Himself mighty and strong in my life and I want the world to know!”Looking forward to the plan of God in her life, Benita looks to the future with a calm assurance that God will do just what He said!!Masthead Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!