In celebration of Black Music Month, Gospel recording artist Latice Crawford’s forthcoming single, “Choose Me” from her EP, Diary of a Church Girl debuted at No. 15 on Billboard’s Top Gospel Albums chart. Best known as the second runner-up of Season 2 of BET’s Sunday Best, Crawford presents Diary of a Church Girl as the follow-up to her 2014 debut self-titled album. During the July 4th weekend, Crawford will perform at the ESSENCE Festival’s All-Star Gospel Tribute to The Clark Sisters, as well as other key events in New Orleans.
“’Choose Me’ is a song about our human need and desire to be accepted,” says Latice Crawford. “Accepted by our families, accepted by our friends, significant other, accepted at your place of business. That’s where I was when I wrote it. I was trying to navigate through this journey called life; in an industry, religious denomination and social culture that said I should look this way, act that way, walk like this and talk like that. I didn’t feel like I fit the mold and I didn’t feel like I fit in. One day I realized I would continue to let people down because I could never be what they expected me to be, but more importantly, I would let myself down if I kept trying to be anything but who I was created to be. That’s when I decided to stop relying on people’s validation and go straight to the creator. If he could choose the likes of Moses, David, Joseph—the list goes on—with all of their imperfections he could surely choose me. I realized that the only thing that was important to me was doing his work, helping his people and pleasing him. He doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies who he chooses to call.”
