Wow! This is a blast from the past. Released 30 years ago yesterday, this is the major-label debut album by pop singer Jaci Velasquez. Though she was only 16 years old when this was released, she had already released three albums before this. This is mostly Christian pop music, though a few of the songs have a bit of a Latin pop flavor hinting at the singer's heritage. Almost none of these songs are written by Velasquez herself, but are instead written by some of the best songwriters working in Nashville's Christian pop scene at the time. I haven't listened to this album in at least 25 years and Jaci Velasquez was never really a musical favorite of mine, but my sisters definitely had this album and listened to it a lot in the late '90s. So I listened to it with them and remember all these songs pretty well, as it's a well-written ten songs of pop. OK, maybe I even listened to it once or twice when they weren't around too. Jaci would go on to sell over three million albums in the U.S., also release pop music in Spanish, and even have a few acting roles in movies throughout her career.

Release Year: 1996
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