Jessie Murph channels a gritty, country-tinged edge through her moody pop, which draws heavily from trap and blues textures while maintaining a polished sweetness. Breakthrough arrived in 2021 via early singles “Upgrade” and “When I’m Not Around,” paving the way for the 2022 EP If I Died Last Night and the following year’s mixtape drowning. Later in 2023 she joined Maren Morris, Diplo, and Jelly Roll—the last of whom appeared on the Top 40 single “Wild Ones”—before scoring a U.S. Top 30 duet in 2024 with Koe Wetzel on “High Road.” Those releases built momentum for her anguished full-length debut, That Ain’t No Man That’s the Devil, which entered the Billboard 200 inside the Top 30 upon its 2024 arrival.
Raised in Alabama after her musician parents relocated the family from Clarksville, Tennessee when she was five, Murph spent her childhood first in Huntsville and later in Athens. There she cultivated a love for performing while absorbing pop, hip-hop, and country sounds in equal measure. Online vlogs and cover uploads quickly attracted both supporters and cyberbullies, experiences that sharpened the emotional directness of her songwriting. Industry attention followed, leading to a 2021 Columbia Records deal and the immediate release of “Upgrade,” trailed by “Sobriety,” “When I’m Not Around,” “Always Been You,” and 2022’s “Pray,” the last of which landed on her debut EP.
Early 2023 brought the full-length mixtape drowning. That June she paired with Maren Morris for the brooding “Texas,” then appeared on Diplo and Polo G’s “Heartbroken,” which climbed to number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her own “Wild Ones” featuring Jelly Roll performed stronger still, peaking at 35 on the same chart. Both tracks featured on her September 2024 Columbia debut That Ain’t No Man That’s the Devil, an album emphasizing the country, blues, and hip-hop strands of her sound. Its standout single, the number-22 hit “High Road” with labelmate Koe Wetzel, had first surfaced earlier that year on his album 9 Lives. The project itself reached the Top 30 on both the Billboard 200 and the Canadian Album charts.
