A Tennessee couple is bringing the pro-life message to the ears of country music fans. Their message is simple: “At Tahan Music Co., we believe that every life is a miracle, and every story deserves to be heard.”
Joel and Kristen Broughton are the creators of TAHAN Music.
“We’re not activists or politicians," said Joel, who admits they are not musicians either.
“We’re businesspeople,” he said.
The couple owns Purity & Grace, a nutritional supplement company.
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Years ago, Kristen told her husband she felt the need to have a ministry called TAHAN, They All Have a Name. The conversation did not lead to anything specific, and time passed. One day Joel, who had never written a song before, wrote what he considered to be a pro-life country song. He shared this with his wife, and again, the concept was put on the back burner.
One day during a walk, Joel told Kristen he finished that country song he started to write. She told him she had been thinking about the TAHAN ministry as well.
“Fourteen nights in a row I would write another song and another,” Joel said.
In total, 15 songs with a life message were written.
Kristen said this was all from God alone.
“(Joel) is skilled in a lot of ways, but music is not his thing,” she said. “That’s the miracle of it.”
Kristen, who has some musical background, said she helped her husband tweak some of the songs.
The couple realized this was something that needed to be shared.
“These songs are a gift,” Joel said, and they decided to take them to Nashville.
“We spoke to many independent producers and prayed over it,” he said. “There were green lights the whole way.”
The last 14 songs were written in November 2024. By December that year they had a producer and were choosing folks to sing each individual song.
A new song has been released every month since May 2025. The latest release will be launched in early October.
Songs like “Luke,” have lyrics that are traditionally country story-telling, and in the last part of the song the message is revealed. Luke is about a little boy who finds a best friend and tells the tale of their kinship. At the end of the song, it is revealed that Luke’s mom nearly aborted him.
The chorus of the song, “I Still Choose You,” is not about a girl trying to avoid the world telling her to leave a boy. It’s about a pregnancy meant to make her a mom:
“What’s this world now comin’ to
Spreadin’ lies I don’t need you
Darlin’ don’t listen to all this noise
Tryin’ to tell us what to do
It’s not a choice I’ll ever choose
It’s not somethin’ I wanna do
Cover your ears I'll cover mine too
I still choose you.”
A male singer belts the lyrics to the first-released song by TAHAN known as “Astronaut.” The catchy, pro-life chorus croons the possibilities for the unborn: “You can be a lawyer with your college degree You can be whatever you wanted to be. You can be an astronaut, doctor or wife. Is it too much to ask? I’m not asking for much, I’m just asking for life.”
All the songs are on Spotify, and many are on YouTube.
“These are songs the whole family can sing to,” Kristen said. At the time of the phone interview with Pregnancy Help News, Joel estimated 50,000 plays for TAHAN Music songs on Spotify, with the song “Luke” getting 30,000 of those plays.
The message is not an agenda, Joel said. It’s country music the average listener can enjoy and then realize the message in the stories.
“We are not just reaching the pro-life community,” he said. “We are reaching everyday people.”
The hope is for people who may not have thought about the pro-life movement at all to stop and ponder the meaning of the song.
There is also hope the songs will continue to get thousands of plays. TAHAN’s producer told Joel and Kristen that as average independent artists, there is a likelihood of 1,000 listeners. TAHAN has surpassed that average 50 times over.
A variety of artists, vocalists, and musicians sing the music. Some of the artists are happy to share their names in credits, while others prefer to remain anonymous due to “cancel culture.”
Adam Cunningham, a finalist on NBC’s The Voice, is the lead vocalist on “Astronaut.” Every song, however, is released under the name of TAHAN Music, not the person providing the vocals. Joel compared it to the worship music outlets of Bethel Music and Elevation Worship, which has multiple performers singing under the same name.
While TAHAN exists as its own music label, a non-profit version has been set up for those wanting to fund the cause, known as the TAHAN Foundation. This foundation will aid pro-life fundraisers.
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There are plans for more God-inspired songs in the future, the pair said.
“We’re on assignment. We’re just obeying and bringing faith.” Kristen said.
