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A New Wave of Messianic Music An Interview with Jamie Hilsden
03/20/2011
Jamie Hilsden came to Israel with his parents when he was 4 years old. He is the Music Director at King of Kings Community in Jerusalem and is currently spearheading a music project to modernize older Messianic Hebrew worship songs.
Jamie, how did you get interested in music, especially Messianic music? Messianic music is something I love. I grew up on this music and I have many good emotions attached to it. It was when I lived outside of Israel for three-years that I realized how much I missed Messianic music. I have a great deal of respect for early Messianic songs, especially songs that contain Scripture. It seems that those who were writing songs 20-30 years ago really had a gift to combine Scripture with music and that is something I don't see much of in the music being produced today. How did you get involved with this current project of reviving Messianic songs from the past? This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I'm already doing this at my community, King of Kings. I take old songs and give them a fresh beat. I've found as a worship leader that whenever I bring out these older Hebrew songs in a fresh way young people are blown away by them and they ask me if I wrote them since they've never heard them before. There's a thirst for new music and I believe that this thirst can be satisfied, at least in part, by reviving these older Messianic songs and seeing what kind of impact they can make. What exactly is this new CD project you are working on?
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