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Carly Ann Taylor is an emerging Christian artist whose music carries a beautiful blend of heartfelt worship, honest storytelling, and a deep desire to point listeners toward Jesus. With a voice that feels both intimate and powerful, Carly brings a genuine sense of vulnerability to her music, creating songs that meet listeners right where they are while continually drawing their hearts back to God.
What makes Carly’s music especially compelling is the authenticity behind it. Her songs aren’t simply expressions of faith; they are reflections of the real-life journey of following Christ through seasons of uncertainty, surrender, hope, and renewal. There is an unmistakable sense that Carly isn’t singing at her listeners—she’s inviting them to walk alongside her as she discovers the faithfulness of God in her own life.
As Carly Ann Taylor continues to develop her voice and share her music, she represents the kind of artist we love discovering here at FishWorship: an artist whose story may not yet be known by everyone, but whose music has something meaningful to say. Whether you’re hearing Carly for the first time or have already found yourself connecting with her songs, there’s plenty to discover in this rising voice in Christian music.
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🎬Featured Video: “Something Good Is Coming”
There are seasons when it can be difficult to see what God is doing. The road ahead may feel uncertain, prayers may seem unanswered, and the circumstances around us may make it hard to believe that anything good could possibly be waiting just beyond the horizon. Carly Ann Taylor’s “Something Good Is Coming” speaks directly into those moments with a message of hope and expectation.
Rather than pretending that difficult seasons don’t exist, the song encourages us to look beyond what we can see and trust that God is still at work. Its message is a simple but powerful reminder that our present circumstances do not tell the whole story. When we place our hope in God, we can move forward with confidence even when we don’t yet know what He has planned.
“Something Good Is Coming” is an uplifting introduction to Carly Ann Taylor and the heart behind her music—a heart that encourages listeners to hold onto faith, keep believing, and trust that God is writing a story that is far bigger than the moment we’re currently experiencing.
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🎵Essential Songs
“Something Good Is Coming”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “Something Good Is Coming” is more than an encouraging song—it is a message Carly first needed to hear for herself. Released in September 2026, the song grew out of a phrase that became an anchor for Carly during one of the darkest chapters of her life: something good is coming. Those words gave her enough hope to keep holding on when she could not yet see how her circumstances could possibly change.
That personal history gives the song’s message an unusual weight. Carly sings to those who find themselves stuck in a difficult season, wondering if anything will ever change or whether there is any reason to keep believing. Her answer is rooted in her own experience of discovering that God was working even when she couldn’t see it. The song points beyond the uncertainty of the present toward the promise that God has a purpose and that His love is waiting for those who turn toward Him.
Musically, “Something Good Is Coming” wraps that deeply personal testimony in an uplifting pop sound, building around Carly’s soaring vocals and a sense of anticipation that mirrors the song’s central message. Written by Carly alongside Carter Frodge and Harrison Hackett, with production by Frodge and Joseph Prielozny, the song feels both contemporary and deeply personal.
Perhaps most importantly, Carly doesn’t present hope as something reserved for people whose lives are already going well. She sings to the person who is tired, hurting, running, or simply struggling to believe that tomorrow can be different. “Something Good Is Coming” is Carly’s invitation to keep holding on—to trust that the story isn’t over and to believe that God may be doing something beautiful even when the next chapter has not yet come into view.
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“WHY SHOULD I WORRY”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “WHY SHOULD I WORRY” was born out of a season when Carly was struggling with uncertainty about her future. After graduating from college with a degree in Commercial Music Production, she knew she felt called to pursue music, but she didn’t know what the next step would look like. In the middle of that uncertainty, her mother pointed her toward Jesus’ words in Matthew 6, where He reminds His followers to consider the birds of the air and the lilies of the field—and to trust that the Father who cares for His creation will also care for them.
That Scripture became the foundation for the song’s central question: “Why should I worry?” Carly wasn’t writing from a place of having everything figured out. In fact, she has described the song as something she was writing to convince herself to keep moving forward and trust God with whatever came next. The result is an honest conversation between fear and faith, gradually shifting from anxiety over the future toward confidence in a God who already knows what lies ahead.
The original version was released independently on November 15, 2024, and the story surrounding its release became an extraordinary part of Carly’s testimony. That same night, she performed the song live while opening for her father’s band, with two A&R representatives from Curb Records in the audience. Their interest eventually led to Carly signing with the label. In retrospect, the song’s message became remarkably personal: Carly had been asking God to show her what was next, and the very song she wrote while wrestling with that question became part of the answer.
At its heart, “WHY SHOULD I WORRY” is a reminder that faith doesn’t mean we never experience fear or uncertainty. It means we don’t have to carry those things alone. Carly’s soaring vocals turn a deeply personal struggle into an encouraging declaration of God’s constant presence, provision, and faithfulness—a message that makes this song one of the defining pieces of her early musical story.
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“WHY SHOULD I WORRY (Remind Me Version)”
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When Carly Ann Taylor first released “WHY SHOULD I WORRY” in November 2024, she was singing from the middle of a very real struggle with uncertainty about her future. The song was inspired by Matthew 6, where Jesus points to the birds of the air and the flowers of the field as reminders of God’s care and provision. Carly’s question was simple: If God cares so deeply for His creation, and He knows exactly what we need, why should we worry?
But the story didn’t end with the original recording. On the very night the song was released, Carly performed it live for the first time—and two Curb Records A&R representatives happened to be in the audience. That encounter eventually led to Carly signing with Curb, transforming the song from something she had written while hoping to trust God with her future into a testimony of how she had actually experienced His faithfulness.
That is what makes the “Remind Me Version” so meaningful. Released September 5, 2025, as Carly’s Curb Records label debut, the new recording revisits the song with additional production and a powerful choir-backed crescendo. Carly describes the progression as a movement from fear to faith, with the choir becoming a collective expression of surrender. The arrangement builds until the anxiety that fills the opening gives way to a confident declaration of trust.
There is something beautifully fitting about Carly calling this version “Remind Me.” When she originally wrote the song, she was reminding herself of God’s promises because she was struggling to believe them. By the time she recorded this new version, her own story had become evidence of those promises. What began as a prayer in the middle of uncertainty had become a testimony of God’s provision—a reminder not only for Carly, but for anyone who finds themselves wondering what tomorrow will bring.
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“Lifeline” (feat. KB)
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Carly Ann Taylor takes her music into a more vulnerable and intense place with “Lifeline,” a powerful collaboration with Christian hip-hop artist KB. Released August 7, 2026, the song finds Carly crying out from the middle of an emotional storm, recognizing that when she reaches the end of her own strength, Jesus is still there to hold onto. KB’s appearance adds another dimension to the song, with his original verse arriving during the bridge and reinforcing its message of dependence on Christ.
The song draws deeply from Carly’s own story. She has spoken about living through prolonged periods of survival mode and carrying the effects of a difficult childhood into her life. Looking back, she says she can now recognize God’s presence and protection even during the years when she felt isolated and abandoned. That realization is at the heart of “Lifeline”: Jesus wasn’t simply the answer Carly eventually discovered—He was there all along, making a way and caring for her future even when she couldn’t see Him at work.
Musically, “Lifeline” deliberately takes a darker and more intense approach than some of Carly’s earlier releases. That contrast is important because the song doesn’t begin with everything already resolved. Instead, it captures the feeling of being caught in the waves and struggling to find solid ground before turning toward the One who can actually provide it. Carly’s powerful vocals and KB’s rap create a compelling meeting point between Christian soul-pop and hip-hop.
At its heart, “Lifeline” is a testimony of discovering that Jesus can be trusted even when life feels overwhelming. Carly isn’t looking back at her story and claiming that the difficult seasons didn’t matter; she’s looking back and recognizing that she was never truly alone. The result is a deeply personal song about surrender, survival, and the realization that Jesus was—and is—her Lifeline.
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“Heavenly Father”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “Heavenly Father” is one of the most personal songs in her growing catalog. Released June 12, 2026, the song tells the story of a daughter who spent years longing for the love and acceptance of an earthly father, only to discover that the Father she had been searching for was waiting for her all along in God. Carly describes the song as a deeply autobiographical expression of that journey from rejection to redemption.
There is something especially powerful about the way Carly connects her earthly experience with her discovery of God’s Father heart. Rather than allowing rejection to define her identity, she came to understand herself as a chosen child of God. That realization gives the song its emotional center: the love she had spent so much of her life seeking was not something she had to earn. It was already being offered to her by a Heavenly Father who knew her, loved her, and had never abandoned her.
“Heavenly Father” also represents an important step forward in Carly’s musical story. Her earlier songs have often explored anxiety, uncertainty, survival, and learning to trust God, while this song reaches deeper into the experiences that helped shape those struggles in the first place. The result is not simply a song about what Carly went through, but a testimony of how God met her in the middle of it.
The message ultimately extends well beyond Carly’s own story. For anyone who has experienced rejection, abandonment, or the pain of longing for a parent’s love, “Heavenly Father” offers a profoundly personal reminder that our earthly circumstances do not have to determine our understanding of who we are. Carly’s story points toward a God who invites us to know Him not simply as a distant Creator, but as a loving Father who calls us His own.
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“Drift Away”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “Drift Away” is one of the most vulnerable songs on her Changing My Story EP. Written during a devastating season of loss within Carly’s family, the song came from watching people she loved process the death of someone close to them. Carly felt the weight of that grief deeply and wanted to create something that could offer comfort without trying to minimize the pain.
What makes “Drift Away” especially meaningful is that Carly doesn’t treat grief as something that has to be quickly overcome. Instead, the song acknowledges the exhaustion and heartache that can accompany loss while offering the reassurance that God remains close through it all. Carly has explained that she never wants people to feel as though they have to pretend that everything is okay; there is room to mourn, to hurt, and to process the things that have happened while still trusting that the Lord will not allow His children to drift away from Him.
Carly’s own vocals add another layer of authenticity to the recording. She has revealed that the vocals for “Drift Away” were recorded in a single take, an approach that perfectly reflects the raw and unguarded emotion she wanted the song to convey. Rather than polishing away the vulnerability, the performance allows the listener to feel the weight of the moment that inspired it.
Within the larger story of Changing My Story, “Drift Away” serves as an important turning point. The EP follows Carly through chapters of salvation, healing, discovering her identity in Christ, grief, and ultimately surrendering herself to whatever God has planned. “Drift Away” sits right in the middle of that journey, offering a reminder that faith doesn’t eliminate sorrow—but it does mean we don’t have to walk through sorrow alone.
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“Saved My Soul”
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“Saved My Soul” holds a special place in Carly Ann Taylor’s story because it was the song that introduced her publicly as a recording artist. Released September 22, 2023, it was Carly’s debut single and later became the opening track of her Changing My Story EP.
The song is deeply connected to Carly’s own testimony of salvation. She has explained that “Saved My Soul” tells the story of the phone call that ultimately changed the direction of her life. After her brother Randy reached out to her and invited her to California, Carly eventually found herself welcomed into his family, introduced to church, and discovering a relationship with Jesus. Looking back, she describes that experience as the beginning of a completely transformed life.
That makes the song an especially fitting starting point for Changing My Story. Carly has described the six songs on the EP as chapters representing different seasons of the previous eight years of her life, with “Saved My Soul” telling the story of her initial salvation. The project then moves through healing, discovering her identity, grief, surrender, and finally answering God’s call.
There is a beautiful simplicity to the message of “Saved My Soul.” Carly isn’t simply singing about believing in Jesus; she’s celebrating the dramatic difference He made in her life. The song serves as both worship and testimony—a declaration that the past no longer has the final word and that the God who rescued her is the One she now wants to spend her life serving through music.
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“Your Beauty”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “Your Beauty” is a song about learning to see God’s hand in a story that hasn’t always been beautiful. Released December 1, 2023, it became the second song on Carly’s Changing My Story EP, following “Saved My Soul.” While the opening track tells the story of Carly’s salvation, “Your Beauty” moves into the next chapter—the process of looking back at everything she had experienced and beginning to recognize God’s goodness in the midst of it.
Carly has described “Your Beauty” as the “processing stage” of her journey. After experiencing brokenness and difficult circumstances, she began to understand that those experiences didn’t have to be the defining story of her life. Instead, she could look at what God had brought her through and recognize His beauty, grace, and faithfulness even in places that had once seemed hopeless.
That perspective comes through beautifully in the song’s imagery. Carly points toward the beauty of creation, new beginnings, redemption, and healing, while continually returning to the realization that God’s beauty is present even in the difficult places. The song doesn’t suggest that pain itself is beautiful; rather, it celebrates the way God can bring beauty, freedom, and restoration out of circumstances that once seemed to have only brought hurt.
There is also a wonderful connection between the song and Carly’s Southern California surroundings. She has recalled listening to “Your Beauty” while driving along Coast Highway with her family as the sun was setting. Seeing those beautiful sunsets while hearing her own words—“I see Your beauty everywhere”—became an almost tangible reminder of the message she was singing about. For Carly, creation itself became an invitation to worship the Creator.
Within Changing My Story, “Your Beauty” is therefore more than simply a worship song. It represents a change in perspective: Carly is no longer looking only at what happened to her, but at what God has done through it. Her story had contained pain, but she was learning that pain didn’t have to be the end of the story—and that even in the broken places, God’s beauty could still be found.
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“Here I Am”
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Carly Ann Taylor’s “Here I Am”, featuring Hopeful., brings her Changing My Story EP to a deeply personal and beautifully full-circle conclusion. Released as the final track on the six-song project, the song is a declaration of complete surrender to God—a willingness to be purified, transformed, and used wherever He leads. Carly’s prayer throughout the song is essentially, Here I am, Lord. I’m Yours.
The significance of the collaboration makes the song even more meaningful. Hopeful. is fronted by Carly’s half-brother Randy—the same brother whose unexpected phone call years earlier became the catalyst for the dramatic change in Carly’s life. That phone call is represented in “Saved My Soul,” the opening song of the EP, while Randy’s voice appears alongside Carly on “Here I Am,” the closing song. Carly has described that progression as a full-circle story: the phone call that helped begin the transformation of her life ultimately leads to the two of them worshiping together as she surrenders that life to Jesus.
The lyrics of “Here I Am” capture that surrender in remarkably direct language. Carly sings about wanting to become more like Christ, grow closer to His heart, and remain open to wherever He leads. The song moves from a desire for transformation into a willingness to give God everything—including the future she cannot yet see. Its repeated declaration of “Here I am Lord” becomes less a lyric than a prayer of availability.
Placed at the end of Changing My Story, the song gives the entire EP its sense of resolution. Carly’s story begins with salvation, moves through healing, identity, grief, and discovering God’s purpose, and ends not with the claim that every question has been answered, but with a willingness to follow wherever God leads next. “Here I Am” is therefore both an ending and a beginning—the closing chapter of Carly’s first musical testimony and an open invitation for whatever God writes into the next chapter.
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“Holy Forever”
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Carly Ann Taylor joins The Church Will Sing and Lloyd Nicks for “Holy Forever,” a powerful worship anthem released January 31, 2025. The song is a version of the modern worship classic originally written by Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham, Jason Ingram, Brian Johnson, and Jenn Johnson, bringing together voices from different parts of the Christian music community in a unified declaration of God’s holiness.
Rather than focusing on an individual story or personal struggle, “Holy Forever” takes a much broader view. Its lyrics look toward the worship of generations past, present, and future, imagining believers from every generation joining with all creation in declaring the holiness of God. The song moves from the greatness of God’s name into a simple but powerful refrain: Holy forever.
Carly’s participation is particularly meaningful within her growing catalog because it places her voice in a distinctly congregational worship setting. Her earlier songs frequently draw listeners into her personal testimony, but “Holy Forever” shifts the focus away from Carly’s story and toward the One at the center of it. The result is a recording that allows her to participate in the larger song of worship that the lyrics describe—a song that transcends individual circumstances and generations.
Released as a single credited to The Church Will Sing, Carly Ann Taylor, and Lloyd Nicks, the recording runs just over five minutes and builds into an expansive declaration of praise. For Carly, “Holy Forever” provides another glimpse of the versatility of her voice while underscoring the foundation beneath everything she creates: a desire to use her music to point people toward Jesus and join the Church in declaring that He is worthy of worship—now and forever.
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💿Essential Albums
Changing My Story – EP
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Carly Ann Taylor’s Changing My Story is much more than a collection of songs. Released in 2024, the six-song EP is a musical testimony covering several of the most significant chapters of Carly’s life—from discovering salvation and beginning a relationship with Jesus to working through pain, grief, healing, and ultimately surrendering her future to God. Carly has described each song as representing a different stage in an eight-year journey that fundamentally changed the direction of her life.
The EP opens with “Saved My Soul,” the story of Carly’s salvation and the unexpected phone call from her half-brother Randy that helped set her life on an entirely new course. From there, “Your Beauty” explores the process of looking back at her past and beginning to recognize God’s goodness and beauty even amid painful experiences. “Drift Away” enters a much more vulnerable space, addressing grief and the reality that faith doesn’t require us to pretend that everything is okay.
The final three songs continue that progression. “I Am Enough” speaks to discovering identity and worth through Christ, while “Wild One” reflects Carly’s growing willingness to embrace the person God created her to be. The EP concludes with “Here I Am,” featuring Hopeful., and brings the entire project full circle. Carly’s half-brother Randy—the person whose phone call helped set the story in motion—joins her on the closing song as Carly offers herself completely to whatever God has planned.
The title Changing My Story captures the heart of the entire project. Carly isn’t claiming that she can erase the difficult chapters of her past. Instead, she sings about discovering that those chapters don’t have to determine how her story ends. Through salvation, healing, grief, identity, and surrender, the EP traces her growing understanding that God can take the pieces of a broken story and write something completely new.
For anyone discovering Carly Ann Taylor for the first time, Changing My Story remains an essential introduction to both her music and her testimony. The songs are deeply personal, but the themes are universal: finding hope after hurt, discovering who we are in Christ, learning to trust God through uncertainty, and finally being willing to say, “Here I am.”
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