Within a year, the couple were thrilled to discover that they were expecting despite being told that pregnancy wasn’t possible due to Alisa’s illness.
While out on the road, Alisa met and later married her husband, Jaime. Unable to eat or even hold up her head due to muscle atrophy, she was hospitalized and placed on a feeding tube, remaining bedridden for six years.Īfter ongoing treatments, her condition eventually improved, freeing her to get back to what she loved – connecting with audiences through music. Undone by his death and the ravages of Lyme Disease, Alisa soon returned home as her health worsened. She had recently left her North Carolina home to pursue a music career in Nashville when she got the call that her worship pastor dad had passed following a massive heart attack. “It all comes from the same place, that 13-year old sitting at the piano in the bonus room, writing 90-second songs, playing her heart out for the joy of it, for the hope of it.”įor the joy, for the hope… These are not small concepts for Alisa. These are hard-fought battles, choices made when her faith was just a whimper in a dark corner of the room.Īlisa, a self-proclaimed Daddy’s girl who has suffered with debilitating illness since childhood, was only 20 when she lost her father. “I’ve always written songs about what I’m going through,” says Alisa, who in her early 20s played coffeehouses and colleges and once drove nine hours and played to what turned out to be a completely empty room. That story is inextricably woven throughout her self-titled EP (Integrity Music) in a tapestry of grief, suffering, hope and redemption for which there is only one appropriate response: unfettered, unfiltered worship. It’s the lilt and innocence in her voice and the heartbreaking, but hopeful truth of her story. Her songs capture something almost mystical, yet deeply rooted in the hard stuff of the “now and not yet” grit of the everyday. Worship artist Alisa Turner sings her recent release ‘ My Prayer For You‘ with passion and vulnerability.
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