Jon Reddick

Dove Award-winning worship pastor and songwriter Jon Reddick pens lyrics that speak of hope and redemption. His intention is to foment discussion with cross-cultural narratives about difference and diversity, healing, inclusion, and faith. His style weds contemporary gospel, praise & worship, and hymnody. The live videos from his 2019 debut single, "You Keep Hope Alive," on TobyMac's Gotee label, were shot at Nashville's Church of the City and garnered millions of views. Following a handful of singles over the next three years including "Keep Me Near" and "God, Turn It Around," Gotee issued a compilation that shared its title with the latter song. In 2024, Reddick released three singles including "Don't Fight Alone (Live)" and "Yield No Fear." His debut studio album appeared in May 2025.

Originally from Memphis, Reddick is the son of a pastor and a church pianist. He is brother to six siblings including Janice, a Stellar Award- and GMA Dove Award-nominated recording artist who records on Motown Gospel. While he played piano and sang in choirs and youth choirs in high school, it was in college that Reddick began to flourish. He wrote songs for services and led a contemporary gospel group. After graduating, he followed his family into church work. Reddick led the worship team for a church in Memphis and eventually made his way into a similar role in Texas. He immersed himself in bridge-building across racial and generational lines, working to bring churches and cultures together under a tolerant Christianity. Reddick relocated to Nashville, where he became the worship pastor of Church in the City. In Nashville he was given opportunities to work on his songwriting skills with internationally renowned artists such as Matt Redman, Tommy Sims, Josh Kerr, and Sheryl Crow. He also toured and recorded as a pianist and backing vocalist with Nashville artists Nicole C. Mullen and Mandisa.

In 2017, Reddick watched TV as the horrifying events unfolded in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the Unite the Right demonstration. In addition to hundreds of injuries resulting from battles between attendees and counter protesters, one young woman, a counter protestor, was run over and killed by a rally attendee. Reddick's response to the tragedy resulted in "You Keep Hope Alive," co-written with his fellow worship pastors Anthony Skinner and Jess Cates. After TobyMac signed him personally in late 2018 (Reddick had been his worship pastor for the prior eight years), the singer entered the studio with producer Nathan Nockels and cut the song. The response to its release in April 2019 was instant; it charted at streaming and got radio play in the South. It made way for a poignant video that was shared globally. Reddick followed that success with "God Turn It Around" later that year and issued a live video for the single recorded at Church of the City in August. Additionally, he, played and sang on Aaron Shust's Nothing to Fear, and he, Cates, and Skinner co-wrote the hit "In the Arms," released on the Terrian label.

As Reddick planned his debut album and co-led worship services in church, he found time to record "Glory & Majesty." The track was issued to streaming at the end of January as a lead-in to his debut album. The global coronavirus pandemic put those plans on hold temporarily, even as the single ticked up the charts and its video garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

Reddick, undaunted, continued to record demos and post videos to his Facebook page; he also contributed a live version of "You Keep Hope Alive" to the Gotee quarantine compilation titled Blessed. Reddick wrote and recorded demos, and made plans to release new music as soon as the all-clear was sounded. In October 2020, he released the charting single "You Keep Me Near" followed by the Christmas EP A Child Is Born in November. While he only released one single in 2021 "I Believe It (The Life of Jesus)," Gotee issued the 11- track digital compilation God Turn It Around in March of 2022 that included studio, radio, and live versions of his singles, including his duet with Matt Redman, "The Power of Your Name."

2023 proved a banner year for Reddick. He returned to recording and working with other singers, songwriters, and musicians including Sheryl Crow (who approached him by saying God told me plain as day to help you" and they exchanged numbers. Intimidated, he didn't call her back, but she proved persistent. They penned "Broken Pieces." He released three charting singles including "You Changed My Name" and "Don't Fight Alone." In addition, he was nominated for, and won, a Dove Award for Best New Artist. Buoyed by his success, he appeared in duet with contemporary Christian singer and conservative firebrand Kim Walker-Smith in August 2024. Two weeks later he released the hit "Yield." He appeared with CCM singer/songwriter Aaron Williams on "Abide" and with TobyMac on "Nothin' Sweeter (Extra Sweet Version)" in September. In February 2025 he announced the release of his full-length studio debut. No Fear was released in May. ~ Thom Jurek