About

David Willersdorf is an Australian singer-songwriter.

As a songwriter, his songs have been sung and recorded by artists and communities throughout the world, including Grammy® and Dove® award winners and nominees.

As a performer, David has toured extensively, from entertainment centres and stadiums through to outback hotels. He has recorded a number of his own albums of gospel and soul and blues originals.

David Willersdorf is an Australian singer-songwriter best known for his gospel music, while more recently releasing acclaimed soul and rock albums. His songs have been recorded by Grammy® and Dove® winners including Darlene Zschech (Hillsong), Bishop T.D. Jakes, and Vernessa Mitchell, and are sung in churches worldwide.

Raised in a musical evangelistic family — son of crusade preacher Brian Willersdorf (“Australia’s Billy Graham”) and gospel TV pioneer Christine Willersdorf — David grew up surrounded by legends such as Andraé Crouch and Larry Norman. He began performing as a child, studied songwriting in Lismore, and saw his early composition “Let Your Presence Fall” recorded by Hillsong.

For many years David served as a youth worker in Sydney’s Kings Cross, worship pastor, conference speaker, and creative director of a leading youth magazine, while playing regularly with the Hillsong band and being personally mentored by worship pioneer Geoff Bullock.

He later toured nationally and internationally as a gospel artist, released several worship projects including the globally aired live album *The Sound of Heaven*, and founded the successful Adore Worship Songwriter’s Course.

In 2015 his horizons broadened when Australian star Rick Price invited him to Nashville. There he recorded the soul/rock albums *Fire This Love* and *Outside the Inside* with Grammy-winning engineers and A-list session players (band alumni of Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill and others). Both albums received strong reviews and took David into jazz clubs, pubs, theatres and festivals alongside his continuing church work.

Now based on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, David keeps writing, touring, mentoring songwriters, and sharing humorous “Tour Tales” online — bringing gospel depth together with soulful, resilient storytelling to diverse audiences everywhere.