By Sommer Kelly
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September 9, 2026
Hi ladies it's me again and happy Lord's day! I hope and pray that each of you ladies and your families are doing well. I'm happy present to you ladies another wonderful blog about some exciting news. Ladies the title of this blog is called "Anna Christine/Hollywood Star To Gospel Artist!" For those of you ladies who may or may not know, that is the title for my latest book! I know right? This has been a long time coming and something that the Lord put on my heart to do since I was a teenager! You ladies maybe wondering is it a novel or nonfiction? Well ladies it's another Contemporary realistic Christian fiction which means though it's fiction it takes place in the modern times and realistic means it can happen in real life! This story is about a woman who's actual birth name is Lisa Marie Pickler (The Lisa Marie was inspired by the late Lisa Marie Presley and her maiden last name Pickler came from American Idol finalist and country artist Kellie Pickler!) was born and raised in Texas, grew up a pastor's kid along with her two younger siblings, got saved at a young age, and sang in church all her life. Sound familiar? Later she and her relatives moved to Nashville, Tennessee where her father continued pastoring and she released her debut album as a independent Christian artist and was a kids writer at 16 years old! She also met her first boyfriend who was a Christian and deacon's kid whom she fell madly in love with. But things got complicated when sexual misconduct happened and Lisa and her parents life got turned upside down. She got pregnant with her first child and had child out of wedlock, Christian record label fell through, graduated from high school, experienced rejection from family, church, and the Christian music industry! I know right? Then she married her first husband, she, him, and firstborn moved out of state, and thus began Lisa's journey away from the Lord which lasted for fifteen years! She worked at daycare on weekends and sang background vocals for a secular artist on weekends. She met a coworker at both the daycare and singing background vocals who was a young wife, young mom, Asian American, and seeking to build a better life. The following year, Lisa and this Asian friend quit working at daycare and being background vocalists to joining a Grammy award R&B girl band over the next few years. Lisa had another child and things went downhill in her first marriage. The following year she got divorced for the first time and started dating a famous actor in Hollywood! She got pregnant with her third child and had later had a "shotgun elopement" to marry him. They were married for the next four years and had a daughter and son together while Lisa brought kids from her first marriage. Meanwhile her relatives that are Christians continued praying for her to come back to Christ and her younger sister graduated from high school and attended college. As time went on, the band Lisa was in eventually disbanded and decided to become a secular solo artist and so did her Asian friend! (The other two women decided to become gospel artists and actresses as well as they later married and started families.) Lisa's second husband encouraged her to also be an actress and she started in several movies and tv shows. At 22, Lisa got a new stage name that was called "Anna Christine" and released her solo secular album while her younger sister graduated from college and got married. (Her younger brother graduated from high school and he and the rest of the family moved to Chicago, Illinois.) Things in Anna Christine's second marriage went south and a couple years later divorced. But before she got divorced, she befriended a former banker and taxi cab driver who became her manager, studio engineer, and bodyguard. He was a black guy who was a backslidden pastors kid and both his parents and Anna's dad were pastors who worked at the same church in Chicago! When Anna Christine got divorced for the second and final time, her manager who was also her friend was there for her. Her Asian friend lost her first husband in a car accident but he got saved two weeks before that happened. She too gained a new friend and manager who was Anna Christine cousin. Anna Christine had another cousin who was a Christian, worship arts pastor, a family woman, (married with kids) and part of a female Christian racial diverse group the sister of her backslidden cousin who liked her Asian American friend. Anna's second ex-husband fell in love with one of Anna's other famous musician and actress friends too and they eventually got married. Anna Christine married the third and final time to her friend/manager while her Asian American widowed friend her new manager who was Anna's backslidden male cousin. Each of those couples blended a family. As years went on, being famous in the secular music world and acting world became a lot for Anna Christine and her friends. The paparazzi followed her, family, and friends, won Grammy awards, won acting awards, featured on magazines and interviews, but it was becoming a lot. Not to mention the challenges of blending a family as well as being estranged from her parents, siblings, in-laws, and nieces and nephews. (Her siblings married and had kids and her younger brother did go to college to be a pastor. Her brother-in-law went to college to be a pastor as well.) Several years went by when Anna Christine's third husband/manager had a near death experience that made her rethink her life. She was now 32 years old the mother of six kids, (she had two biracial kids a son and daughter with her third husband/manager) and at a crossroads. The Lord revealed Himself to her and her third husband and urged both of them to come back to Him which they did. Her friends got saved, as did her ex-husbands, and their households. Finally Anna Christine's loved ones prayers for her came true and it was time for her loved ones to leave Chicago, Illinois, their church, and jobs to relocate to Nashville, Tennessee. Anna Christine, her household, friends, and others left the "Hollywood life" to move to Nashville, Tennessee to attend her parents church they co-founded together. Anna Christine, her household, and friends prayed, read and applied the Bible, received the baptism in the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues. They also did one more secular music tour and then said goodbye to the secular music world altogether! But there were additional obstacles she had to overcome like once again dealing with rejection from "major Christian record labels" but God opened doors for her. Her mom later founded a choir and asked for Anna Christine to be the lead vocalist and when Anna was 34 years old, she returned to the gospel music industry after eighteen years of being away from the Christian music industry. She collaborated with her mom's choir and became known in the gospel music industry. Her second ex-husband and his wife, along with her Asian American friend/cousin and others started in Christian movies and tv shows. Her musician friends also became Christian artists along with Anna Christine and won various Christian music award shows. Anna Christine's three daughters along with her musician friends kids became Christian artists, and started their own families as well too. At the end of the story, Anna Christine, her mom, mom-in-law, and others shared their testimony at the women's conference. Anna and her mom's choir sang at the end and many lives at the women's conference were blessed. That's the quick version of what the book is about and it's loosely inspired by Katy Perry who was a pastor's kid and Christian artist before she became a secular artist! I know right? (Side note we need to pray for Katy Perry to come back to Christ and get out of the secular music world so she'll sing for the Lord as well as live for Him!) Y'all can find this book on Amazon and another fun thing was I was able to share this at church today too. I also plan to share it on YouTube so I've been getting the word out as much as possible and I'd encourage y'all to share this please! I'm believing God for this to be one of my bestseller books since it's addressing issues in Hollywood! That's what I wanted to share with you ladies and don't forget virtual Bible study is tonight. Blessings to each of you ladies, happy Lord's day, see y'all at Bible study, and hope y'all read the book!