working with a producer friend, she pulled together recordings of a number of her songs, both gospel and inspirational r&b - - "life music," she calls it - - and looked to develop her own artistry. her material was also recorded by other artists: cece winans recorded "he's concerned about you," whose message of hope found a natural audience in the wake of hurricane katrina, and vickie winans recorded the hit single "it's alright". others including rodney and joy jerkins and gospel jazz artist tim bowman have recorded material written by parker.