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Canadian-Born Worship Leader Natasha Zimbaro Announces Christmas Single “Emmanuel”
Canadian-born artist and worship leader Natasha Zimbaro is ushering in the holiday season with new music. Zimbaro has announced her Christmas single “Emmanuel,” arriving November 13, 2026, as both the official release and radio airplay date.
Written by Zimbaro with Jonathan Moos, “Emmanuel” is a worshipful celebration of the incarnation and the truth at the heart of Christmas: God with us. The song invites listeners beyond the familiarity of the Christmas story and into the wonder of what it means that God stepped into His creation and came near through Jesus Christ. Zimbaro says Christmas can become so familiar that it is easy to lose sight of how incredible the incarnation really is, and that her hope is the song brings people back to that truth and gives the Church a song to worship Jesus with this Christmas.
Zimbaro currently serves as a full-time worship leader at Lakepointe Church in the Dallas, Texas area, and she has built a social media audience of more than one million followers with her hymns and worship recordings. She is also nearing completion of her Master of Arts in Biblical and Theological Studies, a pursuit that continues to shape her approach to songwriting and worship.
“Emmanuel” marks the first release from a larger body of Christ-centred music Zimbaro is preparing for 2027, with additional new music to follow throughout the year. Rooted in Scripture and centred on the person of Jesus, the single offers Christian radio a worshipful addition to Christmas programming that keeps the focus on the reason for the season.
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Vancouver worship outfit The Slower I Go released their single “Holy Sanctuary” on March 20 through NRT Music, a song built less like a performance and more like a prayer meeting caught on record. Credited to The Slower I Go alongside Noah Priebe and Brooklyn Summer, the single was written by Logan Murph, Brooklyn Summer and Noah Priebe.
The song’s heartbeat is a simple, repeated cry: “Come through, come through, come through.” Rather than building toward a single big moment, “Holy Sanctuary” circles that refrain the way a congregation circles a prayer, letting repetition do the work of surrender. It is worship written for the room as much as for the listener, an invitation to slow down, as the band’s name suggests, and make space for God to move.
The Slower I Go is a four-piece made up of Noah Priebe, Brooklyn Summer, Dacey Lane and Logan York, and “Holy Sanctuary” has not been their only word in 2026. The year has also brought the singles “All Eyes On You” and “Rejoice,” and the group followed “Holy Sanctuary” with “SHOCK!,” a collaboration with Zane Walls that landed in NewReleaseToday’s new releases for the week of June 5, showing a band comfortable moving between intimate worship and bolder, pop-leaning territory.
Canada’s worship scene has always been at its strongest when its songs are born in local rooms, and The Slower I Go sound like exactly that: a Vancouver band writing from the middle of a praying community. “Holy Sanctuary” is their open door, and the invitation could not be simpler. Come through.
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