Tasha Cobbs on ‘One Place Live’: The Song That Took 18 Years to Write
Although songwriting using comes easily to Grammy-award winning singer Tasha Cobbs, the title track of her new album, One Place Live, didn’t come together as naturally. A collaboration with her mother, the song was 18 years in the making.
Tasha’s mother, Bertha Cobbs, wrote the song’s chorus after dreaming about it nearly two decades ago, Tasha recently told Yahoo Music at a music showcase at Capitol Records. Bertha was so excited that she ran through the house singing it when she woke up at 4 a.m.
“I was probably about 12, 13,” Tasha recalled. “We were all at my aunt’s house. She runs down the stairs. She turns on the lights, and she says, ‘I have a song! I have a song! I saw you singing in front of thousands of people,’” Tasha shares.
During that moment, Tasha’s mother sang the song’s chorus. Even though Tasha would later become the praise and worship leader at her family’s church and would eventually become a recording artist, her family had difficulty finishing the rest of the song.
Tasha only recently completed the track. “So last year, I was in a worship setting and the rest of the song came to me,” she explained. “So I called my mom. I was like, ‘I have the rest of “One Place”! I have the rest of “One Place”!”
Not only does the song appear on the album, it’s the title track, and it’s recorded as a duet with her mother.
One Place Live is the follow-up to Tasha’s 2013 Motown Gospel debut, Grace, that topped the gospel charts and scored the breakthrough hit, “Break Every Chain.”
While the album achieved tremendous success, some of its biggest awards came in the midst of a family tragedy: the death of her father, Bishop Fritz Cobbs. “My father used to tell me all the time to stay at the feet of Jesus so within seven days, I won Stellars, I lost my father, then I win a Grammy,” she remembered. “In all things, all things work together for your good, and that was a part of maturing Tasha and growing her up, and it kept me at the feet of Jesus.”
During Yahoo Music’s interview with Tasha, the singer discusses several songs on One Place Live, the motivation behind “Break Every Chain,” and her memories of being a worship leader as a teenager.
Also, see Tasha perform One Place Live songs “Put A Praise on It” and You Still Love Me.”
