Benjamin William Hastings, a Northern Irish songwriter, singer, and worship leader, was raised in Belfast but spent the better part of his twenties in Sydney, Australia. There he fell in love with Jessa, a beautiful girl who also shared a love for words, and a year later they decided to share a name. In their early years, they tried to write together but as it turns out, that was not very good for their marriage so they focused their attention on starting a family which resulted in two very perfect children. While living in Sydney, Benjamin fell in with a church crowd who just so happened to be some of Jessa’s childhood friends - that motley crew was Hillsong UNITED. Thanks to their friendship and through numerous collaborations, recordings, and tours, Benjamin has been part of many of their biggest songs, such as writing and leading vocals on UNITED’s “So Will I (100 Billion X).” He also penned Cory Asbury’s No. 1 hit “The Father's House,” Brandon Lake’s “Gratitude,” and Hillsong Worship’s "O Praise The Name (Anástasis)." Recently, Benjamin and his family of five (including their dog) moved to Los Angeles, CA where he and Jessa still don’t write together but are hard at work on their respective crafts. She is a renowned author and he is an award-winning songwriter, a member of UNITED, and now a solo artist. His new self-titled offering is 25 songs that explore, as he shares, “all the sides of me” - family, love, the ongoing wrestle of exercising faith, the struggles with fear and doubt, war, finding God, fighting God, and fighting for God in the midst of everything. To be honest, it may be a little more honest than what any of us are used to hearing but as Benjamin puts it, “What better way to outwork an existential crisis than through a diary of song?”