Jessie Murph presents the Cowboys and Angels Tour

Born in Nashville, Tennessee yet raised in Alabama, Jessie’s early life was spent bouncing  between small town and moderately big city. Her family moved from Nashville when Jessie was  five, first settling into Huntsville, Alabama and later moving to Athens. Growing up, Jessie  pursued her passions for figure skating and cheerleading, all while secretly wanting to be a  singer. With both parents being musicians, the dream of becoming a recording artist wasn’t that  far off. 

It was when her family moved to Athens that there was a noticeable switch in lifestyle, one  where women’s roles were still viewed to be cooking and cleaning. By this point, Jessie was  already building a buzz on TikTok, posting videos of her dancing to various songs and singing  covers. Once her school caught wind of her growing online popularity, they started wrongfully  punishing her for it, ultimately causing Jessie’s family to relocate.  

Not all was lost; the backwards society pushed Jessie further toward music, where she used  songwriting to blast past the gender norms surrounding her former community. While Jessie is  still young, she knows exactly who she is and the kind of music that she wants to make. “I  always ask myself, ‘Is this something that I would listen to?’” she says matter-of-factly. “Because  the music I make is for girls and boys to scream to in their car, to cry to, and say ‘fuck you’ to. I  make songs that say the things we always want to say, but don’t.”