After being discovered by millions on Season 17 of America’s Got Talent and Season 10 of BET’s Sunday Best, Centricity Music’s singer/songwriter Bay Turner releases new music following a remarkable journey seasoned with successes as well as health issues that threatened to end his musical career. 

Wholly captivated by the soulful sounds of artists like Donny Hathaway, Luther Vandross and Stevie Wonder when he was a young man, Turner’s voice blossomed while in college. After earning his undergraduate degree, he became a rising star in young artist programs affiliated with major opera houses around the world. As his faith became more of a central force in his life, he began leading worship alongside, the iconic Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. Just when he thought he was stepping into a divinely orchestrated era of his career, surgery to remove two benign tumors in his chest nicked and paralyzed one of his vocal chords. He was told he would likely never sing again. After spending several months in silence under doctor’s orders, new tests miraculously revealed his vocal chords to be seamlessly healed and healthy. “I think my faith grew in pain,” Turner observes. “God had to teach me how to separate who I am as a man from my gift of singing. I think I would have crashed and burned as a recording artist if I was fully relying on my gifting and not on God.”

A fusion of the R&B/Soul that raised him, the opera that challenged him, the Gospel that shaped him and the modern worship that captured his heart, Turner says, “I know I’m supposed to be using what God gave me to bring Him glory. It’s 100% in God’s hands, and I’m just here to be a faithful servant.”