California-based worship band Binley exists to serve the global Church by facilitating genuine worship experiences.
Lead singer Dre (Andrea Hamilton Binley), started the band to serve local churches, Christian gatherings, and youth/young adult events with relevant, fresh, sincere soundscapes and experienced leadership.
She has served on international music ministry teams for two decades, and is now a worship leader at Mariners Church.
The band became known for its energetic, electro-pop abilities when their 2nd single (a cover of Build My Life that sounds like Capital Cities could have produced it) was placed on more than 1800 Christian pop playlists including Spotify’s Official New Christian, and Premier Christian Radio in the UK.
Binley hopes to meet a felt need for upbeat, relevant worship music in the Church.
“A lot of current worship music tends to be more reflective, slow in tempo, and minimally produced. Some of our music is more of a party. We want some of our songs to stir up joy - believers have the biggest reason to clap, dance, and rejoice. We've been given a new name and brought into the family,” says Andrea Hamilton Binley, who named the band her new married surname.
The band was invited to share their music on Today in Nashville (a morning news TV show), and has had the honor of leading various worship events throughout San Diego and The Inland Empire.
Binley’s cover of Upperroom’s spontaneous live recording Joy features Trevor Davis from The Voice Season 4.
Trevor is a well-known worship leader who has had his own journey of finding supernatural joy during hard times, along with his wife Heidi, after losing their first daughter Mazelle three days after her birth. Her middle name was Joy.
Dre was drawn to the truth in the song: that even in the midst of hardship, peace, hope and joy are available in God’s presence, and indeed are His will for us continually.
Dre and Trevor teamed up with San Diego-based producer Mark Suhonen (production/programming credits for artists including Phil Wickham, Elevation Worship, Jordan Feliz, Chris Tomlin) and created a more dance pop version of the worship tune.
“We all have different struggles in life. When you go through something hard, we can either go through it feeling overwhelmed and defeated, or we can go through it with a supernatural joy that surpasses circumstance,” Dre says.
“God is always wanting to give us peace and wanting us to call on His name so he can provide and strengthen us with His presence. He’s there to change our attitude and perspective, and the joy He gives us is our strength to move forward through anything. The best thing we can do is to worship, even when it’s hard to at first.”
The message hits close to home for Dre, who has learned to worship God through the struggle of a chronic illness. While dealing with several autoimmune conditions, Dre says her journey of healing has actually been a beautiful place to worship from.
“A big part of my own personal journey with God has been honoring Him when my body or my mind doesn’t feel like it. He’s still deserving of honor and worship,” she shares. “While worshiping, you get to a place where you’re able to interact with the Savior and break through the negativity. His presence changes our perspective.”