Kirk Franklin & The Family, Conquerors | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 3^rd edition of Music Lifts, we’re uplifted by Kirk Franklin. & The Family performing the uplifting contemporary gospel ballad, “Conquerors.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, a column that seeks to highlight songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 3^rd edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2023), we highlight 🎵 “Conquerors” as performed by 🎙 Kirk Franklin & The Family.

“We are conquerors, conquerors.” A conqueror is defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as ‘one who conquers: one who wins a country in war, subdues or subjugates a people, or overcomes an adversary.’ That is a complex definition but the part that aligns with the 1990s 🎙 Kirk Franklin & The Family contemporary gospel hit, 🎵 “Conquerors” (💿 Whatcha Lookin’ 4, 1995) is the latter – one who overcomes an adversary.   What adversary is 🎙 Kirk Franklin referencing? Life, with its hardships,  trials, and tribulations.  Ultimately, thanks to God, those who believe in Him are conquerors – overcoming tough obstacles and situations through his grace and his mercy.

“Tomorrow is a brand new day / All my sins have been washed away,” 🎙 Dalon Collins sings (as lead vocalist) in the first verse. He continues to laud The Most High, singing, “My hands are new, my life is free / My heart is pure, I’ve been redeemed.” That is inspiring – uplifting by all means.  The anointed choir joins in during the pre-chorus, which best speaks to why we are conquerors.

“We ran the race, we kept the fight

We shed our blood for what was right

We carried our cross through storm and rain

Because of Christ now we can say…”

Beyond superb lyrics, one of the best moments of this near eight and a half minute ballad comes toward the end.  Throwing a little music theory into the mix, there’s a dash of minor thrown in, signaled by Collin’s “na-na-na…” It adds to the allure and sheer power of this nearly 30-year-old gem.

🎙 Kirk Franklin & The Family • 💿 Whatcha Lookin’ 4 • 🏷 GospoCentric • 📅 1995

Kirk Franklin. & The Family, “Conquerors”: Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 No. 3 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; GospoCentric; cottonbro studio, Itzel  Sandoval, Neeraj Nagdeve via Pexels]