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has produced hundreds of

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songs on albums since 1992 on more than fifty albums, mostly under their own label,

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. 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

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albums and some

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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

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, he was asked by Zschech to start a youth worship band for the church which is now known as

. 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

and

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

, and then led worship in the main Hillsong Band alongside

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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

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and the annual

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, 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

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".

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