Francesca Battistelli

My Paper Heart: Deluxe Edition is available in stores NOW! Featuring the Grammy Award-nominated "Free To Be Me" as well as the hits "It's Your Life" and "I'm Letting Go", the new album also includes four new recordings of Francesca's most popular songs and two new tracks!

Click here to order your copy in the online store.
-or-
Click here to download the new material from "Dented Fender Sessions" on iTunes.

Hey friends!

I wanted to let you know about my new cover of Brooke Fraser's beautiful worship song "Lead Me To The Cross." I was delighted to be one of three artists asked to pick a favorite worship song and record it for the new WOW Worship project. Trust me, I can't imagine trying to recreate Brooke's lovely live recording, and that's why my producer Ian and I decided to take it in a different direction. I really like how the song turned out, and I'm excited for you to hear it! You can download it now on iTunes, or you can get the entire WOW Worship project, which is also in stores now. It features 30 worship songs from your favorite Christian artists, including new versions of old favorites from Matthew West and Leeland!

I hope you really enjoy this project and this song in particular. I chose it because it's one of my favorite worship songs of the decade, and I think the message is unique. May God use it to speak to your hearts and minister to you!

-Francesca

Check out the all new video for "Beautiful Beautiful" at Yahoo! Music. Click here!

With a music-making history of 59 years, today Word Entertainment, through its artists, projects and other contributors, garnered 62 Gospel Music Award nominations. Fervent Records’ Francesca Battistelli led the way matching last year’s five total nominations including “Artist of the Year,” “Female Vocalist of the Year,” “Song of the Year”(“Free To Be Me”), “Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year” (“Free To Be Me”) and “Short Form Video of the Year” (“Free To Be Me”).

Word Label Group (a division of Word Entertainment comprised of Word Records, Fervent Records, Myrrh Records, and Canaan Records) garnered 27 nominations, including top categories “Artist,” “Song,” “Group,” “Female Vocalist”, “Male Vocalist” as well as “New Artist.”