{"id":30628,"date":"2026-07-21T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=30628"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:42:24","slug":"christian-artist-stuns-music-world-at-14-years-old-uses-his-gifts-to-glorify-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=30628","title":{"rendered":"Christian Artist Stuns Music World at 14 Years Old, Uses His Gifts to Glorify Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A 14-year-old American music artist is reaching millions as he boldly shares his Christian faith through his music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tate Butts, a South Carolina native, has seen remarkable success for such a young age, growing his career with his newly released debut EP and featured presence in Forrest Franks&#8217; hit song &#8220;Somebody Prayed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expanding from his 2025 single, &#8220;My Defender,&#8221; Butts released an EP, &#8220;Something to Believe In,&#8221; on July 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The album presents seven faith-based songs titled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I Pray\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Hide Away<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m Gonna Sing<\/li>\n<li>Brought me this far<\/li>\n<li>My Defender<\/li>\n<li>Shadow and,<\/li>\n<li>Coulda Woulda Shoulda\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In June of 2026, Forrest Frank featured Butts on his song &#8220;Somebody Prayed,&#8221; which acknowledges the powerful impact of grandparents&#8217; prayers on their grandchildren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This song, along with the song &#8220;Coulda Woulda Shoulda,&#8221; especially resonated with Butts as his grandmother, who frequently prayed for him and his musical career, recently passed away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Butts has also been featured with other major names in the industry like Brandon Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a South Carolina concert, Lake mentioned being tagged in a social media video of Butts singing his song, &#8220;Hard Fought Hallelujah,&#8221; which inspired Lake to invite the young artist to sing it live on stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>@brandonlakemusic To be 14 and sing like that?!?!?! I can only imagine the things God has in store for @Tate Butts \u266c original sound &#8211; Brandon Lake<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be 14 and sing like that?!?!?! I can only imagine the things God has in store for Tate Butts,&#8221; Lake captioned his post.<\/p>\n<p>Butts&#8217; stardom grew as he performed his original song, &#8220;My Defender,&#8221; at the International Teen Talent 2025 competition held by Global Worship Initiative at Lee University.<\/p>\n<p>The song&#8217;s powerful lyrics, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want the glory,&#8221; captivated the judges and won Butts the top prize in the Solo Songwriting Category along with a publishing agreement with Spirit Sound Music Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing Butts musical gifts from God, Global Worship Initiative stated this on its social media, &#8220;This is just the beginning for a gifted voice with a heart to serve the Church through powerful, Spirit-led songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along with releasing new music sharing the spotlight with major industry names, the young artist is making appearances on prominent talk-host shows like &#8220;The Jennifer Hudson Show,&#8221; serving as living-proof to thousands of Gen Z youth that they are not too young to serve Christ with their gifts.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old American music artist is reaching millions as he boldly shares his Christian faith through his music.\u00a0 Tate Butts, a South Carolina native, has seen remarkable success for such a young age, growing his career with his newly released debut EP and featured presence in Forrest Franks&#8217; hit song &#8220;Somebody Prayed.&#8221; Expanding from his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10197,232,72,672,7212,252,3598,300,471],"class_list":["post-30628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-artist","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-gifts","tag-glorify","tag-music","tag-stuns","tag-world","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}