Elle Limebear: ‘I want to rebuke this idea of us being an anxious generation’

After a life-long battle with anxiety, worship leader Elle Limebear is showing fear the door. As she releases her boldest music to date, the daughter of Delirious? frontman Martin Smith opens up about prophetic words, how she accidentally rewrote her father’s classic worship song and what touring the world is really like 

Elle Limebear was destined to sing – and that isn’t journalistic hyperbole. In 1997, as then-Delirious? frontman Martin Smith and wife, Anna, celebrated Elle’s birth, a prophetic word was spoken over their newborn. It suggested Elle would be anointed for creativity and leadership in a similar way to her father who, at that point, was writing some of the most-sung worship songs in the world (‘What a friend I’ve found’, ‘I could sing of your love forever’ and ‘Shout to the north’ to name but a few).