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Hillsong Church Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original church was established in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, as Hills Christian Life Centr ...
has produced hundreds of
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songs on albums since 1992 on more than fifty albums, mostly under their own label,
Hillsong Music Hillsong Music is Christian music produced by Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia as well as offshoot churches, Hillsong London, and Hillsong Kyiv. Hillsong albums are released and distributed by Hillsong Music. The main groups are Hillsong ...
. This is a list of Hillsong's notable worship leaders and musicians who have written, sung, and/or played instruments on one or more albums.


Current worship leaders


Taya Smith

Smith has been at Hillsong since the late 2000s to early 2010s. She started on Hillsong's youth band
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then she went on to sing on some
Hillsong United Hillsong United (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a contemporary worship collective originating from Hillsong Church. Since forming in 1998 out of the church's youth ministry, the group has released fifteen live albums and six stud ...
albums and some
Hillsong Worship Hillsong Worship (formerly Hillsong Live) is a contemporary worship music, praise and worship collective from Sydney, Australia. They started making music in 1983 at Hillsong Church. Fifteen of their songs have appeared on the ''Billboard (magazi ...
albums. As of September 2023 Taya is no longer a member of Hillsong church.


Reuben Morgan

Morgan serves as Hillsong's worship pastor, replacing Darlene Zschech in 2008. Originally, alongside
Marty Sampson Martin W "Marty" Sampson (born 31 May 1979) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and former worship leader at the Hillsong Church in Sydney. From the late 1990s until 2019 he featured on the United Live albums and was one of the origina ...
, he was asked by Zschech to start a youth worship band for the church which is now known as
Hillsong United Hillsong United (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a contemporary worship collective originating from Hillsong Church. Since forming in 1998 out of the church's youth ministry, the group has released fifteen live albums and six stud ...
. He has written the majority of Hillsong's newer songs and is also the Worship Pastor at Hillsong London.


Joel Houston

Houston is one of the worship leaders at Hillsong. He is the eldest son of former Hillsong's Global Senior Pastors Brian & Bobbie Houston, and has been writing songs for Hillsong for many years. Originally he was a guitar player for Hillsong United and soon became United's Worship Leader after Reuben Morgan & Marty Sampson joined the main Hillsong Band. Joel currently serves as Hillsong's Creative Director and was the Co-Lead Pastor of Hillsong New York City when it opened in October 2010.


Aodhan King

Aodhan King is a key songwriter and worship leader of Hillsong's Y&F. He has also made numerous contributions to both
Hillsong United Hillsong United (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a contemporary worship collective originating from Hillsong Church. Since forming in 1998 out of the church's youth ministry, the group has released fifteen live albums and six stud ...
and
Hillsong Worship Hillsong Worship (formerly Hillsong Live) is a contemporary worship music, praise and worship collective from Sydney, Australia. They started making music in 1983 at Hillsong Church. Fifteen of their songs have appeared on the ''Billboard (magazi ...
.


Previous worship leaders


Marty Sampson

Sampson was one of Hillsong's key musicians and songwriters. Alongside
Reuben Morgan Reuben Timothy Morgan (born 9 August 1975) is an Australian worship pastor at Hillsong Church and one of several worship leaders and songwriters in Hillsong Worship group. Prior to this he was a worship pastor at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Au ...
, he originally led Hillsong's youth band
Hillsong United Hillsong United (stylised as Hillsong UNITED or UNITED) is a contemporary worship collective originating from Hillsong Church. Since forming in 1998 out of the church's youth ministry, the group has released fifteen live albums and six stud ...
, and then led worship in the main Hillsong Band alongside
Darlene Zschech Darlene Joyce Zschech (; Steinhardt; 8 September 1965) is an Australian Pentecostal Christian worship leader and singer who primarily writes praise and worship songs. Described as a pioneer of the modern worship movement, she is the former wor ...
and Morgan. He has led worship at two of Hillsong New York City's Focus Nights alongside the Hillsong team as well as sung and written new songs on Hillsong United's album ''
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'' including singing on the title track. He helped lead worship at one of the many Hillsong extension services. As of 2019, he no longer publicly identifies as a Christian.


Darlene Zschech

Darlene Zschech is arguably the most well-known of Hillsong's musicians. She is the former worship pastor (1995–2007) and the longest-serving member of Hillsong's worship team. She and her husband, Mark, became the new senior pastors of Hope Unlimited Church on the Central Coast of New South Wales. She continues, however, to be part of Hillsong Church and remains a key member of the church's senior leadership team alongside Hillsong's former senior pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston. Zschech continues to lead worship at key Hillsong events throughout the year, including being a part of the executive team for the
Colour Your World Women's Conference Hillsong Church, commonly known as Hillsong, is a Evangelical charismatic movement, charismatic Christian megachurch and a Christianity, Christian association of churches based in Australia. The original church was established in Baulkham Hills, ...
and the annual
Hillsong Conference Hillsong Conference is a mid-year week-long annual Christian conference hosted in Sydney, Australia, with a smaller three-day event held in London later each year. It is the largest annual conference in Australia of any kind. The event is hosted ...
, while also continuing to lead tours with the Hillsong Team around the world. Darlene still remains the Senior Lead Vocal on all of Hillsong's annual Live Albums and many other Hillsong songs, including recently Hillsong's newest single "It is Well with My Soul", a remake of the traditional hymn with all the proceeds going towards the victims of the 2011 Queensland Floods. Darlene also continues to host the Creative Worship stream at Hillsong Conference, and has written over 80 songs of praise and worship that have been published by Hillsong Music alone.


Geoff Bullock

Geoff Bullock wrote most of the songs on the earlier albums. He was the original Worship Pastor of Hillsong but was replaced by Darlene Zschech after he left Hillsong in the mid-1990s.


Miriam Webster

Miriam Webster has written many songs and has appeared on Hillsong albums since 1997. She has been featured as the lead vocal for several songs alongside Darlene Zschech. She has recently relocated to minister in the United States but also sang in a Medley of Classic Hillsong songs at the 25th anniversary celebrations of
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.


Brooke Fraser Ligertwood

Brooke in recent years has been a part of the Hillsong team after moving to Australia from New Zealand. She is also a famous New Zealand singer/songwriter, performing under her maiden name as Brooke Fraser. She has sung on both Hillsong Live albums alongside Darlene Zschech and as a part of Hillsong United with Joel Houston. Her song "What A Beautiful Name" won the Grammy award 2018 for "Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song".


See also

* List of Hillsong albums * List of Hillsong songs


References

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