Justin Gambino Offers Timely Reflection for Holy Week

Award-winning Residence Music singer/songwriter Justin Gambino returns with “Let Me Not Forget,” a moving contemplation of Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice on the cross. Now available on streaming platforms, the reflective piano/strings ballad was produced by Walter Halliwell and penned by Gambino, Halliwell and Tony Wood.

Arriving on the cusp of Holy Week, “Let Me Not Forget” bears the hallmarks of a timeless hymn–an immediately resonant melody that elevates impassioned, Truth-filled lyrics “Let me not forget that day so dark/Let me not forget Your open arms/Should I not remember how Love would reach so far/Let me not forget Your scars.”

“The song was written and a demo was recorded in less than four hours, and we all knew we had something very special,” Gambino recalls. “With the production, I didn’t want the listener to have to work to understand the lyrics–it’s a song that asks for breath.[…]