Season 3 American Idol’s George Huff is set to release his sophomore self-titled gospel album on April 7th.
The songs on his new album reflect some of the hard times he’s experienced in his life. Originally from New Orleans, for example, Huff was displaced by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He and his family currently reside in Dallas, Texas.
But instead of dwelling on the bad, Huff, with typical optimism, focuses on the positive. These sentiments are reflected in the stand-out single, aptly titled “Don’t Let Go.” “So many people are going through hard times financially and spiritually and my music is meant to recognize that and be an antidote for it,” said Huff.

“That was a spiritually low time for me,” he says in a press release of Hurricane Katrina, “but I knew God would pull us through it as he has in so many other situations in my life.There was a time before ‘Idol’ that I was awaiting scholarship money that was not supposed to be there. But God provided it for me. Even for ‘Idol,’ I was led by faith to spend my rent money to travel from school in Oklahoma to Houston to audition and made it through. Once I got to Hollywood I was booted from the final 32 but people were praying for me and Simon Cowell chose me as his wildcard and I ended up in the Top 5. My faith in God is the only explanation for that to me.”
I had a chance to interview George in 2005, when he released his debut CD, Miracles, on Word Records. He is the most joyful, exhuberant person I’ve ever met, and I’m so glad that despite being dropped from Word, he signed last year with Koch Records – now E1 Entertainment – and is back with a new album. You can learn more about George Huff at this MySpace site.