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A year older, Lampa returns with her follow-up recording, Kaleidoscope, again produced by Brent Bourgeois (Point of Grace, Cindy Morgan, 4HIM) and Brown Bannister (Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman, Point of Grace). The album finds the five-foot-tall powerhouse exploring her musicality and message.
On Kaleidoscope, Lampa branches off, pen in hand, writing on five of the album's 11 songs: "Lead Me (I'll Follow)," "Give Your Heart Away," "I'm All Yours," "A Song for You," and "Sanctuary." The same process that birthed six radio hits from Live for You was employed again this time around. Artists and songwriters, including Cindy Morgan, Paige Lewis, Brent Bourgeois, David Mullen, Phillip and Natalie LaRue, Chris Rodriguez, Pete Kipley and Chris Eaton periodically came to Bourgeois' home to write songs for the album. "On the first record, I spent a lot of time with the writers and told them about my life," Lampa recalls. "On this record, if there was something I wanted to sing about, I would go and tell somebody my ideas, and they'd write a song. Or we'd write it together."
That was the case with "A Song for You," a cut she and Cindy Morgan wrote together at the piano. For the first time, Lampa, who until then had been too shy to show anyone her work, opened her journal and read one of the many songs she'd written by herself. At 11, she penned "A Song for You" after learning her father was ill. "It's a song to my family," she says "When my dad got sick, I was in the fifth grade and all about my friends. I just realized how much I needed my family, how much we needed each other. Every night, we'd all get together and just pray together. It was a powerful time for our family."
The song is representative of how Lampa feels about each cut on Kaleidoscope: "Every single song on this record is something I wanted to sing about specifically," she says. "Last year, there were things I wanted to talk about on stage, but really no relevant time to say them. Now I have songs that represent exactly what I want to talk about." One of those topics, Lampa says, is the need to make the most of our time. The new song, "Give Your Heart Away," went through several incarnations before the final version written just days after Sept. 11. Like all Americans watching the indelible scenes of the events, Lampa began to evaluate her priorities. "After everything happened, I wound up talking to my friends who were still waiting to get serious about their faith until after high school," says the Louisville, Colo., native who attends public school in the town near Boulder. "It was so important to me to have a song that challenges us to make the most of every moment and realize what this life is about and why we're living it. I think Sept. 11 has really woken up some of my friends and m
