

And we went on this journey together of over the course of maybe a year and a half, just bouncing sporadically, bouncing back and forward ideas. "That was the first song I ever wrote with Joel. One song he had a hand in crafting is So Will I (100 Billion X). You create something, and then you hand it over to the church." Like, if I ever get to be in a church and hear someone leading like a song that I got to play a part in, it's this really surreal, beautiful moment where you're like it feels like it doesn't feel like mine," Hastings told Studio 5. The singer also had a hand in writing songs that are heard in virtually every Christian church. "So, when I was 19, I moved out there, yeah, through this kind of crazy set of events, ended up writing songs that I started using on records and became really good friends with all those guys that I met back in Belfast. "And then somewhere in the middle of all that I had I sort of felt compelled to go out to Australia and be a part of the church there, be a part of the college, do that whole thing," Hastings explained. But I was like I was so stoked," he continued. And what was really cool was United came and played a show in Belfast and I got to meet all the guys and none of them remembered me. I was doing a few bands doing some different things, but I had discovered and when I was maybe 15 or 16, I was in a bookshop and I discovered a Hillsong United record and I fell in love with the music. "So I was doing that pretty much as a full-time job in Belfast. You know what that is? It's like those people on the street, who are just, like, singing, playing, yelling at people trying to grab their attention." "So, when I was in Belfast, I was busking. And, you know, it's really, really nice," Hastings said.

I love Belfast and it's always fun to go back and kind of crawl back into like, the little Irish hole. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland before connecting with Hillsong's music school in Sydney, Australia. This new journey comes as he finds himself nominated for a Dove Award for "Worship Song of The Year."ĬBN News's Studio 5 traveled to Nashville to chat with Hastings about his international music journey. But the award-winning songwriter is now embarking on a solo music career. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.NASHVILLE, TN – Singer and songwriter Benjamin William Hastings is known for his work with Hillsong United. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
