"Echo" is a song performed by American

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band

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featuring

Tauren Wells Tauren Gabriel Wells (born April 7, 1986) is an American Contemporary Christian music singer and pastor from Houston, Texas. Wells was the frontman of former Christian band Royal Tailor. After the group's disbandment in 2015, he released ''Unde ...

, released as the third single from Elevation Worship's eleventh live album, ''

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'' (2018), on August 31, 2018. The song was written by Alexander Pappas, Chris Brown,

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, Matthews Ntlele and

Steven Furtick Larry Stevens Furtick Jr. (born February 19, 1980), known professionally as Steven Furtick, is an American evangelical Christian pastor, author, and composer of Elevation Worship. He is the founder and general overseer of Elevation Church, base ...

. Chris Brown and Aaron Robertson handled the production of the single.

Background

In leading up to the September 2018 release of ''

'', "Echo" was released as the third single from the album, following the release of singles "Won't Stop Now" and "Here Again". The song was recorded in March 2018 at Elevation Ballantyne in

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, in an interview with Jake Frederick of NewReleaseToday, shared that the collaboration came about after he connected with people from

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at the Inside Elevation conference. When he returned to Elevation Church another weekend to lead worship, where he led the song upon request before they asked him to feature on the song as part of the album. Wells described the song as "one of those songs that brings so much energy and joy into a room." On February 1, 2019, a Spanish rendition of the song, titled "Eco (Echo)" was released by Elevation Worship. On April 12, 2019, a revamped version of "Echo" was released on Elevation Worship's album ''Paradoxology'' (2019), a collection of revamped songs initially released on ''Hallelujah Here Below''. The song, garnering early airplay from several radio stations, was set to impact

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on July 26, 2019.

Composition

"Echo" is composed in the key of

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with a tempo of 104 beats per minute, and a musical time signature of .

Music videos

Elevation Worship released the live music video of "Echo" featuring Tauren Wells recorded at Elevation Church's Ballantyne campus on their

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channel on August 31, 2018. On February 1, 2019, The lyric video of "Eco (Echo)" in Spanish was published on YouTube. The music video for the ''Paradoxology'' rendition of "Echo" shot on location at

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was published on Elevation Worship's YouTube channel on April 13, 2019.

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* {{Tauren Wells 2018 singles Elevation Worship songs Tauren Wells songs 2018 songs Songs written by Steven Furtick