she sent me to piano lessons , or her and my Dad sent me to piano lessons .
Then when I was twelve I discovered songwriting and so I started writing songs . My early material was based on insects , if I think back to my first songs were about insects . Princess Diana ' s funeral , I wrote a song about that , and then kind of slowly evolved . Then skip forward a few years after that , then I found Christ or Christ found me . I guess I began to write from this newly alive perspective and writing songs though I wasn ' t trying to ... I was 15 , 16 , I ' m not trying to fit things in a genre , I ' m not thinking that … I ' m just writing songs in my bedroom .
Some of those were songs that were to the Lord or worship songs , and then the rest of them were songs that were just I was writing about the world around me , and about the world within me . Then I got signed right out of high school to Sony Music and I began that whole Brooke Fraser side of my career to the world outside of the church . But at the same time being a follower of Jesus , I was planted in church and began using my gift to serve the church as well . I never understood why it was such a big hullabaloo that I would be able to do both .
[ Brooke ] Yes , I think they just started that channel last week .
[ WM ] In making the transition as a solo artist from Brooke Fraser to Ligertwood , it is not like you ’ re starting new , but yet in some ways it must be kind of a new start .
[ Brooke ] I love life , I love the Lord , I love music . I ' m at the mercy of whatever it is that God is doing with me , and I don ' t necessarily think that I get to decide that . If anything , the releasing something under my personal name Ligertwood is scary because it ' s me , this is who I am . That ' s always been kind of ... I don ' t know if shielded is the right word because it ' s always been me no matter where I am . But I guess Brooke Fraser was very clearly my mainstream music career . That ' s not finished , next year I think 2023 will be 20 years since the release of my first record . And so , I think I should probably do a little something-something , a little new little project in the Brook Fraser world . So , that ' s not over .
Then within how I ' ve been able to serve within Christ ' s church and within worship , that ' s obviously always been from the place of my planting , if you will , which is Hillsong Church , which is my church . Even in the very earliest years that I began to contribute to our church ,