When John Cook was 4 years old, he witnessed his father commit suicide. This tragedy and trauma could have scarred him for life. At 7, his mother became sick with Sarcoidosis, potentially fatal sickness that could have been the final nail in a little boy's hope for a life of happiness and possibility. God had a better plan. One Sunday, John and his mother went to church. When the Altar Call was offered, John watched his mother move to the front of the church to be prayed for and he bore witness to an event that would shape his life and that of his mother forever. He watched his mother receive healing.

"She got healed that day, and I knew it without a doubt. From that point on, I wanted to talk about God. I really felt that if that could be part of the music, then all the things I had been through would disappear. So, I was reading the Bible and listening to rap music. I knew that they could co-exist. I wanted to give God the opportunity to live in me," says John.

John felt that music could do what preaching couldn't do for some people; penetrate their hearts and move the limits that some people placed on God. "Sometimes, people hear the word and it can go in one ear and out the other. Music sticks with you!" John felt that music could get through the hardest walls, including the members of the church.

HEAVEN'S PEN is John's debut album , but his voice and face have previously been featured on GOD'S CONCIOUS, the first release from the label, on which John has 2 singles – "I Got The Victory (The Devil is A Liar)" and "Dreaming." The video for "Dreaming" featuring Diana Gordan, is in rotation on BET's Video Gospel,. "Sure it's all about heaven," says John. "But there are a lot of people, right here, on Earth. We have to speak people's situations and circumstances because music speaks the truth. Not just Jesus and Up Yonder, but right here and now. I think we can be on the same level as other stuff, musically, and still be saved and available for God!"