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There are millions of children growing up in the church, but the church is not growing up in them. They are lost in the pews. Tasha Page-Lockhart, season six winner of BET’s Sunday Best, was once one of them.
But the new artist signed to Kirk Franklin’s Fo Yo Soul Entertainment label refuses to hide her dark history of sexual molestation, drug abuse and promiscuity, even if it does make others uncomfortable.
“I grew up in a time where the church taught us how to be fake,” said the “Different” singer in an interview with UK blog site, That Grape Juice. “It was like, ‘don’t let anyone see you cry’ or ‘don’t let them see you sweat.’ But, I thought church was like a hospital.”
It was most certainly her place of refuge during her hard partying and drugging years.
Singer Tasha Page-Lockhart performs onstage during BET Celebration of Gospel 2014 at Orpheum Theatre on March 15, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Credit: GETTY)
Back then, with Page-Lockhart’s life in a tangled mess, she always found her way to the house of the Lord—something that came naturally for her since she was brought up to know God.
“No matter what I was doing or where I was in the country, when I was a part of the gospel group with my mom, turning up (an urban euphemism for getting drunk and high) before turning up was even poppin’, I always made sure that I was at somebody’s church on Sunday morning singing,” she told Heed Magazine.
“I always made sure I kept my foundation and roots in the church, even though I was living crazy; I still found my way to church. That was my center.”
Page-Lockhart is the daughter of gospel singer Lisa Page Brooks of the famed gospel groupWitness and Michael Brooks, producer and founder of both groups Witness and Commissioned.
Lisa Page Brooks, mother of Tasha Page Lockhart, is a fellow gospel singer, pastor, author and wife. (Credit: GETTY)With the help of God, she has cleaned up her act.
“I know it was the power of God,” Page-Lockhart told the Detroit Free Press of ending her drug addiction. “He literally changed my mind so I didn’t want it anymore. I wanted so badly to be different. And I knew if I continued doing what I was doing I would die.”
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Former Addict Turned Gospel Singer Tasha Page-Lockhart Says ‘The Church Taught Us How To Be Fake’ was originally published on praisecleveland.com
