Recently, six-time Grammy Award-winning singer Russ Taff sat down with theologian and professor Lee C. Camp on his Signal Award-winning podcast No Small Endeavor to discuss his childhood trauma, self-hatred, alcoholism, and long road to recovery and forgiveness.
Russ has been hailed by Billboardmagazine as “the single most electrifying voice in Christian music,” garnered 16 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and was inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame an unprecedented three times.
In the episode, Russ shares…
16:02 – that when he was seven years-old, his family was asked to leave the church due to his father’s alcoholism.
36:37 – how he began traveling with an evangelist when he was 19 years-old.
43:00 – when he received his first Grammy, he felt like he didn’t deserve it and then turned to drinking to silence those thoughts.
No Small Endeavor, which is produced by Great Feeling Studios and PRX, is available here. You can listen to the show here.