In a time where headlines are filled with division, conflict, and uncertainty, Dwayna Litz’s “Everyone is Beautiful” stands as a powerful reminder that love still has the ability to unite us all.

She currently lives in Sarasota, Florida, while continuing to write and record in Nashville, Dwayna Litz has built an impressive career with songs published by Universal Music, Spirit Music, and her own ASCAP company, Litz Music. With over 2 million views on YouTube, her voice continues to reach audiences across the world.

But this latest release is different.

This isn’t just a song—it’s a message.

From America to the Middle East and beyond, the song carries a universal message—one that rises above politics, race, and religion.

✨ No race reigns supreme in God’s eyes—only love does.

MORE THAN MUSIC

Beyond her music, Dwayna is deeply committed to making a difference.

Through her nonprofit work, she has supported:

• Women’s shelters
• Underprivileged communities
• Outreach programs
• Prison ministries

Her mission goes far beyond the stage—it’s about impacting lives.

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Exclusive Interview with Dwayna Litz

In this exclusive interview, Dwayna Litz shares the heart behind “Everyone is Beautiful,” her faith, and the message she hopes will reach the world.

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1. “Everyone is Beautiful” feels like a message straight from the heart—what was God placing on your spirit when you wrote this song?

Dwayna Litz: I had the inspiration for this song right after Rob Reiner passed away last December. Donald Trump had said cruel things about him, as if he was happy he had died. I thought that was so mean and awful! But, it did not stop there. Within a week after that, I saw a reel circulating on Instagram of someone from the Trump Administration calling Rosie O’Donnell mean names on a clip from Fox News (which I do not watch). The person talking called her mean names and said she was “ugly,” and it was just all so hateful coming out of the White House because, evidently, Rosie did not like Trump. The people commenting on the thread said, “All Christians are mean.” I responded, “The Bible says if you don’t have love you have nothing. True Christians know how to love.” I have never been one to follow Rosie O’Donnell, but I decided to look her up on Facebook, and she had lost a whole lot of weight, and everyone was talking about the mean comments. She said she was going to take the high road and not respond. I wrote (as a total and complete stranger to anything else she had been posting about), “I am sorry all of that was said. It was mean, and you are beautiful.” And, just that quickly, I began singing, “Everyone is beautiful in their own way I do believe. We’re all the same in our need for love in the heartbeat of humanity…” 

I knew a special song was coming, so I got out my iPhone and began singing into it and typing down the lyrics, as both the melody and the lyrics came together. The entire song flowed out and was written in an hour. I had no idea we would be in a war with Iran by the time the song came out with threats from “my” president of genocide and “wiping out an entire civilization,” so this time in world history gave the song an even deeper meaning. Every human being all over the world is made in the image of God, and there is no such thing as genocide in context with God’s love, so I began raising awareness via my nonprofit for zero supremacy of any race and zero racism and for more love in the world through this song. Then, I could barely keep up, as DJs began playing this song, ‘Everyone is Beautiful,”  all over the world. On the night when Donald Trump threatened to destroy the entire civilization of Iran, they were playing this song on rotation in America, East Africa, England, France, Amsterdam and Italy, calling for “global prayer.” Every song is a gift, but this one became a global anthem for the world. I am so sorry, though, to say that it was because of the war with Iran. Still, I am so thankful that its message would resonate with others in a time of fear, as the war affected the entire world.

2. Your song speaks to a world affected by conflict and division—how do you hope “Everyone is Beautiful” can bring healing or perspective during times of global tension and war?

Dwayna Litz: I have been very hurt as a Christian to think any Christian could stand with a regime out to destroy people, just because they were Arab or Persian. I have never experienced a war like this in my life. I had not researched Gaza until the war. I have always loved Jewish people, of course, and always will, but I have been hurt that my country had been funding genocide and “human concentration camps.” My Jewish friends say that Netanyahu makes Jewish people look bad, as the Jewish friends of mine are all so nice. EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL, including the Jewish people all over the world standing up for love and the ones who are rebelling against hate in Israel and the precious PEOPLE of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Our current, American president does not reflect Americans who are loving. I had had the most wonderful Easter Sunday morning at a sunrise service, and then Trump posted the profanity on Truth Social and the hate from him competed against the beauty of Easter Sunday. As an artist, all I can do is write about such things, but it was a sad day for America last Easter Sunday and a sad day for the world since the war began. The good news about it is how much the truth has come out, to hopefully bring about change in the future for a better America. The first line is “The land needs love, and it starts with me reaching out my hand to you,” but the whole world has needed love since this war began, and it really always will. Of all of the songs I have written, no song will ever mean more to me than this one.

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3. Your music beautifully blends multiple genres—how did you shape the sound of this song to reflect its message of love and unity?

Dwayna Litz: The HBOMax Billy Joel documentary, “And So It Goes,” made a huge impact on me as an artist. I watched it over and over, as I found it so inspiring as a songwriter. I realized that if he put a mandolin on rock songs, I needed horns on my songs! I love it all, so I need to be doing it all. In addition to that, back in the fall of 2024, I worked with a different set of very accomplished rock /pop musicians, as our first time working together in a session recording some of my songs. The drums were amazing! It was a new sound for me, and we had literally just put the session together not knowing what a difference it would make working with more pop/rock players than country. I have been working with them ever since. I can definitely sing country, and I was raised singing gospel hymns as a child soloist in churches, but the combination of the right band, horns and killer African American vocals against my voice all work together to give me my own sound. I was also raised on musical theater and have recorded a full album with an orchestra of new renditions of the Great American Songbook, so I feel like every song of mine has all of that in one these days. Back when I was singing to please A&R people, as I moved to Nashville at 17, I never really knew “what I was.” I wanted to sing whatever would get me the deal. They had a hard time figuring it out, too, as I could do so many genres. It feels good that my own sound came together when I was not even trying, and I am happier than ever working to be the best “me” I can be—not for an A&R person—but just to reach my own potential as an artist and person.

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4. You speak about seeing beyond race, religion, and differences—have there been moments in your life where love helped you overcome division personally?

Dwayna Litz: I have my own 501c3 nonprofit, and I have helped a lot of underprivileged children from all different races. I love them all, and I cannot understand racism. I would never want to live in a world of only white people who look like me! I have always loved living in international cities with people from all different cultures. That being said, when I began my outreach to kids in the projects of East Nashville, as I helped those sweet, little children with totally different backgrounds than I had, they were the ones who helped me. I left every outreach feeling so rich and blessed. Music gives me joy like I cannot explain, but so does helping others through my nonprofit, especially underprivileged youth. It’s just as deep but in a different way. 

My recent nonprofit work has been in standing up for the children and people of Gaza and Lebanon. I have a lot of friends who were Christian Zionists before the war, but, while it is good to love Jewish people, I have raised awareness within Christian circles that no race is supreme over another. Genocide goes against John 3:16 of how God so loved the WORLD…! While I have lost some friends over what seems to me to be a simple truth for any Christian, God has given me new friends due to my stand against genocide. I also hate the notion that God loves some people but does not love others, due to race, when that is not at all what the Bible teaches in the New Testament! I mean, how could I not stand? It does not matter if I lose donations in my nonprofit, as I can leave all of that in God’s hands. 

Through my music, I hope to spread the message that I truly believe with all my heart, “Everyone is beautiful,” and no one is better than anyone else. I love the line, ‘You may think we’re not alike, but you may be surprised. I’m someone just like you when I’m hurting on the inside.”

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5. Faith and forgiveness are at the core of this song—how has your relationship with God guided your journey as an artist?

Dwayna Litz: Dwayna Litz: Well, when you have fair skin and red hair, you have a sense of knowing how unique you are, and I have known this all my life! I have learned to embrace what makes me, me and own it to be the best “me” I can be! I do not with to be like anyone else but me. It’s a good thing, because I am not! I really do not fit the mold in any area. I never want to do mission work or sing Christian songs for fame, which means I will never truly fit in the “Christian music crowd,” although I love Christians and all people. I am not into “using God” to get famous, and I hate “Christian nationalism” and so much going on in our country in God’s name that is not anywhere close to God. So, my aim is to keep my music and the outreaches of my nonprofit sincere, and as long as our bills are paid, that is enough. I have never done mission work  through my 501c3 for any goal of getting rich and famous “off of God,”  and hate even the thought of that.

I now have a team of musicians that makes me feel right at home, but when I was living in NYC for years, I actually faced discrimination for being a Christian at one point. That was good, as I can relate to any Jewish person or Arab or black person or anyone on earth who has faced discrimination. It is mean. For you to be as nice as can be to someone, and for someone not to want to be around you in return because they think “all Christians are bigots” or whatever, really is unfair. It was when I  worked in theater circles in NYC for a while that, I experienced some of that, as I have always had my nonprofit, and when people Googled me, they found out I was a Christian. I had never been treated like that in my life. In all, it made me appreciate God’s love even more and never want to treat others that way. God worked it all out for my good, as every season of life makes us who we are. 

As Quincey Jones said, “Your music will never go deeper than how deep you go as a person.” It is our struggles that give us that depth and hopefully it all comes out in my music.

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6. In a world that can feel broken and divided, what do you hope people feel in their hearts when they hear “Everyone is Beautiful”?

Dwayna Litz: I hope they feel loved when they hear it. I hope they feel understood and not so alone. I hope they feel like someone cares, especially if they are going through a hard time, especially if they are hurting. I hope they can “feel” through the song that God cares, and we are all the same in this world far more than we are different.  I hope the song is like I am reaching out my hand to them to help them any way the music can.

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7. You began your journey at a young age and have worked with incredible artists—how has God shaped your path and purpose through your music career?

Dwayna Litz: I had recorded three albums by the time I was sixteen. I began singing before I could talk plainly, I grew up singing as a soloist in Baptist churches, so I just figured I would move to Nashville at 17 and have a record deal by the time I was 21. It was my all in all—really music was my idol back then. I did not know it at the time, but when I did not get what I wanted, no matter how hard I worked, I really did not care if I lived or died at one point. I figured if I was sweet, pretty and could sing good that was all it took. I had a lot to learn about life, and I learned it all in those tender years in Nashville. I got ordered out of offices if I would not literally go to bed ( with a bed in the office) with some married man at a record label, and I was not prepared for all of that. But, all of that time, God was doing something beautiful in my heart. God was healing me through His love in ways that fortune and fame never could have. I cried a lot through those years, but I felt Him loving my Father, and it was amazing. I learned that my worth is not about my singing to God or what I can accomplish, but He actually loves me for my soul and who I am when no one is watching. That is the most beautiful gift to my life, and I want others to know that there is a God of love who loves them that much, too. 

Though no one could have been more driven, and though I vowed I would never give up, I surprisingly got sick of the music industry (though never sick of music) and figured it was not meant to be for me as a Christian, so began the work of my nonprofit. The beautiful thing is, when God was ready, God gave me back my music, and it is honestly better than anything I ever wrote or recorded in those early years, even when I had a production deal with Warner Brothers and major producers worked with me. 

I do it now only because I love it. I learned to be happy with or without it. So, now when I write a song and it comes to life the right way in a recording, I am (literally) off the charts happy! I need no record deal for that. I have never been at a better place in life. Sometimes not getting what we think we so desperately need can be the best thing. God gave me something better than money and fame, happiness on the inside.

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8. This song feels like a prayer for the world—if you could share this message with one group of people right now, who would it be and why?

Dwayna Litz: Just the thought of that touches me. I wish I could blast it all over Gaza or all over Iran, especially when I saw Persians holding hands peacefully on bridges, not knowing if Trump would destroy their “entire civilization” taking them back “to the stone ages.” That was truly like some real life horror show, as we were all in prayer for God not to let that happen! I also see caring Jewish people on the streets in protest in Jerusalem to Netanyahu and in Tel Aviv, and the IDF hosing them down to where they have to be hospitalized. I wish this song could also get to them. And, if only the people causing the terrorism could believe the message of this song, too, what a different world we would have.

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9. As you continue your journey, what message do you feel called to share next through your music and your voice?

Dwayna Litz: My next album, due out this summer, is a compilation of songs I wrote from my heart about a guy who I really thought was “the one” at first. Well, he was not! But, I wrote so many songs going through the journey of all of that to the final goodbye, that I am glad he came along for the music alone! I wrote them all from my heart, and that album will be a compilation called “We Could Have Been” as a mixture of all the genres I love from pop, Jazz, country, gospel, bluegrass and rock. Then, I will have a Christmas compilation out this Christmas called “Dwayna Litz Christmas.” I have already written three more albums soon to come, too, starting in 2027, which will hopefully be something for everyone. My goal with my music is never to be just one thing, not even within a single song, as all my songs tell a story from my heart, and I love them all so much. I just write whatever I feel, so I write many genres, I write and sing simply because I feel I have no choice but to do it. My songs are all a part of me, and no one can take my music away, no matter what, I listen to them when I go through any hard time. I have never known life without music. It feels like a drug, all the happiness I feel when my songs turn out right after recording them, so whatever else comes out of one—like this article, for instance—is just over and beyond for my little heart in the happiness realm! Thank you so much for this interview. 

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Credits & Production

“Everyone is Beautiful”
Words and Lyrics: Dwayna Litz (Litz Music ASCAP)
Produced by Dwayna Litz & Tim Crouch

Featuring:

• Tim Crouch – Guitars, Fiddle, Mandolin
• Ryan Jones – Piano
• James Mitchell – Electric Guitar
• Duncan Mullins – Bass
• Steve Brewster – Drums
• Randal Clark – Saxophone

Recorded at Soundstage Studios, Nashville, TN
Mixing: Billy Decker

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Why This Message Matters Today

In today’s world, it’s easy to focus on what separates us.

But “Everyone is Beautiful” reminds us of something deeper—something universal.

• We all need love.
• We all feel pain.
• We all belong to the same human story.

This song isn’t just meant to be heard—it’s meant to be felt.

And more importantly… lived.

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Listen Now

https://dwaynalitz.hearnow.com/everyone-is-beautiful
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/24FHD8eZybAp3IKnPZuzcs

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-satan-goes-to-church-by-dwayna-litz/id1840045601

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DwaynaLitzOfficial
Website: www.DwaynaLitz.com

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