Brooke Ligertwood Shares Surprise Connection to Billy Graham

Published: April 1, 2025

By Michaela Gordoni

Worship artist Brooke Ligertwood got to give her new album something special with a little help from an old microphone.

Ligertwood was filming for her album, Eight, when the studio’s owner walked up to her.

“He walked right up and asked if I’d be willing to switch the microphone out for ‘I Do,’” she said, according to Relevant. “He told me, ‘My grandfather was Billy Graham’s right-hand man. This microphone was Billy Graham’s microphone, and it still has the original ribbon. I’ve had it at my house, and I’ve been saving it for when it felt like the right thing to have somebody record it on.'”

He felt like Ligertwood was the “right person” to have the vintage RCA mic. Her crew had already set the stage how they wanted it, but Ligertwood and her team immediately agreed to use the mic.

“We just talked for a moment about what that microphone represented — about the voice, the life of obedience that voice had spoken into, and also the words that had been spoken into that microphone, which is of course the Gospel,” she said.

“It caused us all to pause for a minute and think about the heritage that we are all standing in,” she continued. “Truthfully, none of us would be standing here if it wasn’t for people like Billy Graham and the generations who have gone before us who were faithful with the Gospel and their generation.”

Ligertwood shared on social media that she thinks of that day as extremely “special.”

She said, “So what you hear on these Worship Together versions is me — a scrappy lil gal from Lower Hutt, New Zealand — getting to propel words through this legacy laden microphone that I pray all add up to the same end: a harvest for the Lord. 😮‍💨”

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Ligertwood released Eight in October 2023. The album is about her processing some difficult experiences. She wanted to wait until she had gotten through them to publish it, but that’s not how it turned out.

“That’s not my story right now. This is a record from right in the middle,” she said.

“It’s vulnerable to talk about because I’m still going through this season, but what I can testify to is that even in the darkness and the grief of the last couple of years for us, Jesus has been the sweetness and the sustenance and deep goodness,” she explained. “His mercy has bathed everything and detoxified the poison.”

Though she had to delve into trauma to get to a healthy place, she says the making of the album was “beautiful” and redemptive.

The album healed her heart, and she hopes it helps others’ hearts heal, too.