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@householdname.studio
Also @everythingslashnothing

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What a night. 🕊️

Incredibly grateful to have played a small part in this project alongside some amazing creatives. Special love to Aaron Stearns and Ras, whose vision and hard work helped bring it all to life. They might be missing from the official portrait, but not from my version. 😂

Always an honor to use the gifts we’ve been given to glorify the One who gave them. 🤍

@japaaron @rrashun @trentnicholson @capitolcmg @hyphenmediagroup @kaymhoff @matthewreed_ @drakekennedy @gmadoveawards

📸: @wandercreative @tessavoccola

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Official Music Video for ‘Star By Now’ is out now on @youtube !!

@brady_pettee you captured the nostalgia perfectly. 🫶🏽

Videographer: @brady_pettee
Creative Director: @japaaron

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✮⋆☆ ‘Star By Now’ is out everywhere !! ☆⋆✮
When we wrote this song, it felt like a well of experience I’ve lived but never thought to write about. It’s what so many of us dreamers have experienced - the waiting / formative hidden years before the obvious fruit-bearing. Thank you to my awesome team for loving this song as much as I do and helping me make this all it is!

Writers: me, @iammartincash @andrewlberg
Producers: @iammartincash @andrewlberg
Guitars: me, @iammartincash @andrewlberg
Bass: @andrewlberg
Drums: @iammartincash
Keys: @andrewlberg
Fiddle: @stevenabowman
BGVs: @iammartincash
Mixing Engineer: @daf.thomas.mix
Mastering Engineer: @mosesmastering
Art Director: @japaaron
Photographer: @madisonrensingphotos
Videographer: @brady_pettee
& thank you @bydesignmusic @sonymusicpubnashville @thenewbmg @roundtablemanagement !! ˙⋆✮⋆˚࿔

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‘Star By Now’ is out this Friday ☆ ☆ ☆
~ story song for the dreamers ~

cover photography: @madisonrensingphotos
cover art: @japaaron

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I’m about to start finishing some new music, but I can’t help but look back at trustfall. Making this record was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But it helped me grow as a human. And not only that, I did a headline tour for the first time. If you’ve listened to my music, come to a show, or sent me a dm, I can’t thank you enough for being apart of this. I couldn’t do this without God, my team, and you guys. I’m unbelievably excited for where we’re going, but I am so grateful for where we’ve been.

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New music this Friday from Zoe Levert! GIRL DAD is out everywhere you listen to music!

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Something new ⏳
#fyp #newmusic #countrymusic #fashion #newartist

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I’ve never wanted to hug an inanimate object so badly. Two days ago marked seven years living in Nashville, and twenty photos don’t scratch the surface of the beautiful memories I’ve had here. The past two days I’ve been reflecting on the years that have truly made me who I am. I moved here when I was 21, with a 4 month old puppy — little Winston — knowing only a couple people and almost no plan… honestly, I think I blacked out the month before moving because that fearlessness was something else haha.

Your early 20s are some of your most formative years — learning, exploring, and figuring out who you are — and I cannot be more grateful that Nashville is where I got to do all of that.
I feel like I’ve lived three different lives here — graduating from college, so many different jobs, changing interests, saying bye to friends but meeting new ones along the way, watching friends fall in love, get married, and start families of their own, oh, and meeting my husband… that was pretty cool.

And then there are all the little memories that don’t fit into twenty photos — Halloween costumes we put way too much effort into, holidays around tables with friends who slowly became family, and the excitement of having my actual family and hometown friends visit and getting to show them the place I had come to love so much.

There were home projects that felt way more ambitious than they needed to be, and moments much bigger than anything I could have imagined when I first moved here. I lived through the tornado, countless seasons of change, and somehow, through all of it, Nashville continued to feel like my little constant.

I’ll go on drives through rolling green hills, passing horses grazing in a field, and still think, “I cannot believe I get to call this place my home.” Seven years later, I still have that same deep love that stirred in me when I chose to move here.

I think that’s the most special part — realizing that this place didn’t just witness me growing up, it gave me the space to become who I am. So much of the life I have today started with a very young me taking a pretty wild step, and I’ll forever be grateful she chose Nashville.

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I’ve never known anyone who works as hard or walks as diligently in their calling as this man. Handing your heart to the world is a vulnerable, unrelenting job — and the humility and composure he carries through it is graceful and admirable. And he's just a fricken genius. Proud wife. Congratulations to @judahlee and @victormucho on this album from @judahandthelion. I AM A PRISM 🖤

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Sounds were made.

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Honored to have helped bring the visuals to life for @blessingoffor and his album, Real.

This project became an exploration of gravity and grace, the tension between what weighs us down and what still finds a way to grow. Roses through concrete. A visual world rooted in humanity, heritage, resilience, and all the pieces that make us who we are.

So grateful to see Real nominated for a Dove Award, and even more grateful for the incredible team who helped shape this one.

Creative Director & Design: @japaaron
Art Director & Design: @nathan.blaine
Photography: @erickfrost
Addl. Photography: @paulcrivera
Photo Assist: @chrishershman
Styling & Grooming: @velvetsedge
Set Design: @ashamezcua
Animation: @sethwilliamson.mov
Studio: @stagepost @capitolcmg
Label: @capitolcmg @becca.redl

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“Terms & Conditions” is out now!!! 💾💿♥️

i hope this song reminds you that God never asked you to be perfect. i think we spend so much time trying to hide our brokenness from God (and even from each other), when all He’s wanted all along is your true, authentic self.

God already read your “Terms & Conditions,” and He still loves you unconditionally. i think that’s pretty amazing.

thank you to @bydesignmusic & @roundtablemanagement my literal dream team. @greenhousecreativecompany & @householdname.studio for these amazing visuals & creative. thank you to @benjaminbackus for jumping in on my weird little idea & writing this with me - and @itscarriek my production queen & @maddie.harmon my engineer/mixing queen!! and thank you to @mosesmastering. (i work with such amazing people i pinch myself every single day).

and most of all, thank YOU for listening / posting / supporting me. i can’t believe get to wake up every day and write songs. i feel so lucky.

GO STREAM IT A BILLION TIMES ILY BYE

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