Deitrick Haddon, a Detroit native working in contemporary gospel, consistently expands the genre’s reach through infusions of R&B, hip-hop, and soul. Mainstream recognition arrived in 2002 when Lost & Found topped Billboard’s Top Gospel Charts, a position matched by Crossroads (2004), Revealed (2008), Church on the Moon (2011), and Masterpiece (2015). Beyond recording, he entered acting with a role in Blessed and Cursed and later starred in the reality series Preachers of L.A. His first complete holiday collection, A Deitrick Haddon Christmas, appeared in 2024.
Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Haddon served as pastor and music director at Unity Cathedral of Faith. The son of Bishop Clarence Haddon and Prophetess Joyce Haddon, he delivered his initial sermon at age eleven. Fronting Voices of Unity, he merged secular and sacred sources into a hybrid he termed “gospel soul.” The Tyscot label issued the ensemble’s debut, Come Into This House, in 1995. Two years afterward, Live the Life earned Gospel Music Workshop of America Excellence Awards for New Artist of the Year: Urban Contemporary and Album of the Year: Urban Contemporary. Subsequent group projects—This Is My Story (1998), Chain Breaker (1999), and Nu Hymnz: Live from the Motor City (2001)—preceded Haddon’s solo move to Verity. Solo output such as Lost and Found (2002), the Tim & Bob collaboration 7 Days (2006), Church on the Moon (2011), A Beautiful Soul (2012), and R.E.D. (2013) sustained his boundary-pushing profile. Greater visibility came in the mid-2010s via Preachers of LA, while Deitrick Haddon's LXW (2014) and Masterpiece (2015) again led the gospel chart. The 2017 live album Deitrick Haddon & Hill City Worship Camp was anchored by the single “A Billion People.” That same year he joined Grammy-winning producer Zaytoven for the Christmas EP Greatest Gift. June 2020 brought the politically charged standalone single “I Can't Breathe,” which addressed George Floyd’s death and highlighted the Black Lives Matter movement. The holiday set A Deitrick Haddon Christmas arrived in 2024, followed later that year by the concert recording One Night in California.
