Anthony Brown reveals he wants to break away from the notion that Christian music has to sound like something that can only be played in church on Sundays.
Brown who released his third album ‘A Long Way From Sunday’ last Friday July 28 2017 opened up in an interview about the intentionality of making new music that used elements of hip hop and pop music.
I’ve been in church all of my life, but I don’t spend the entire day listening to hymns. And I’m not trying to get [my listeners] to come to church.
I’m trying to get them to know who Jesus is. Because that is what I know.”
Apart from being the front man of his music ensemble Group Therapy, Anthony brown is also the son of a pastor and leads worship at First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Marlboro, Maryland.
The singer-songwriter is known to combine different musical elements together. During an interview he had spoken about a time in his career when he pursued more soul and R&B sounds.
He told me, ‘Ant, you ever want to come through and be on the show or do background on the show, you can do that.
While I was out there, there was this very popular singer and piano player named John Legend who surfaced on the scene.
He plays the piano and sings, and we have the same kind of voice so I started doing covers of John Legend songs.” 
While Anthony Brown was getting a positive response to his John Legend covers, he couldn’t stray too far from his gospel music roots.
“I was getting really, really dope responses so I did think about going that route, singing about love and life and what not.
But at the end of the day, the root of who I am is gospel music so that’s what I wanted to do.”
