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Jessie Murph

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A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.

Jessie Murph was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, to musician parents and moved with them to Alabama at age five, settling in Athens after a stretch in Huntsville. She grew up on pop, hip hop and country music but felt out of step with the conservative culture around her, and left the state as a teenager, first for Nashville and later Los Angeles.

She built an audience by posting vlogs and covers to TikTok and YouTube before signing to Columbia Records in 2021. Her debut single, "Upgrade," came out that year, followed by "Always Been You," her first song to chart.

Collaborations followed across hip-hop and pop: "Pray" reached the UK chart in 2022, "Heartbroken" with Diplo and Polo G and "Wild Ones" with Jelly Roll both came in 2023, and she closed the year with "Texas," a duet with Maren Morris. She also toured behind the single "Cowboys and Angels."

After the 2023 mixtape Drowning, she released her debut album, That Ain't No Man That's the Devil, in 2024, certified gold in the US and Canada. Her second album, Sex Hysteria, followed in 2025, with the single "Blue Strips" going viral on TikTok and becoming her first top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

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