“Hold On” – Minister Sean Hardin & Obadiah

“Hold On”
Minister Sean Hardin & Obadiah
From the Nu House Records CD Been Good
www.nuhouserecords.com

Sean Hardin is a product of Detroit’s active and multi-faceted gospel scene. An alumnus of the Deitrick Haddon camp, Hardin cut his gospel teeth singing background for Haddon and then worked in A&R for the artist’s ManHaddon Entertainment company.

Now it’s Hardin’s time to go solo. “Hold On,” a single from Hardin’s debut solo album, Been Good, is a live track – and Hardin’s favorite – with a thumping bass line and steadily rolling tempo. The performance moves the hometown audience to hand-clapping from the first note, even before the artist has a chance to encourage them to make noise. Once into the meat of this sing-along paean to perseverance, tenor-voiced Hardin weaves in and out of Obadiah’s antiphonal lines, all the while taking time to interact with the audience.