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Ella Langley is opening up astir what it was for illustration for her increasing up successful a mini municipality arsenic a Southern Baptist.
During an question and reply connected nan “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von” podcast, nan 26-year-old state euphony prima said astir her upbringing successful a mini municipality successful Alabama, recalling getting frightened successful nan church’s “judgment houses.”
“It’s, like, they do it astir Halloween,” she said. “It’s for illustration a haunted location for Christians, I guess. Very scary. I retrieve our younker group took us. You get successful there, and it’s for illustration this car clang scene, and it’s beautiful overmuch for illustration convincing you… that you could dice nan 2nd you locomotion retired of here, truthful you amended settee up. You amended get saved.”
She explained that nan haunted houses “affected maine truthful bad” that erstwhile they asked her younker group if anyone wanted to talk, she raised her manus and “got saved again.”
The “Excuse nan Mess” vocalist recalled her dada telling her, “Well, you are benignant of a dumba–, cuz that’s nan full constituent of being saved.”
Langley explained that she was homeschooled for galore years, and her life consisted of going to church, noting, “Pretty overmuch all we did was spell to church.”
She noted it was a “really, really mini church. It started successful a barn. The location that I besides grew up in, my dada grew up in, and location was an aged barn crossed nan street, and it started successful hay bales connected that barn, and past they moved it to a church, and I mean each Sunday and Wednesday until I was 18 years old.”
She compared increasing up successful a mini municipality to her acquisition pinch fame, explaining, “You’ve known each these group your full life,” and increasing up successful that environment, “I would perceive s— astir maine each nan time,” adding, “you conscionable get utilized to that.”
Langley began her profession connected societal media, gaining a pursuing by posting covers connected TikTok and Instagram, starring her to merchandise her EP “Excuse nan Mess” successful 2023.
The EP helped solidify her instrumentality guidelines and included galore of her early hits, including “If You Have To” and “Country Boy’s Dream Girl.” She achieved mainstream occurrence erstwhile she collaborated pinch Riley Green connected her deed opus “You Look Like You Love Me,” which went viral connected TikTok, sewage millions of streams connected Spotify and Apple Music, and expanded her audience.
Her debut workplace album, “Hungover,” was released successful August 2024, and successful April 2025, Langley was presented pinch nan ACM New Female Artist of nan Year grant by state icon Miranda Lambert, who has go a bully friend to nan budding star.
“I was singing perpetually arsenic a kid. Like I said, I’ve known my full life what I wanted to do, truthful I was ever doing it,” she told Grammy.com in August 2024, adding she became a stronger songwriter during COVID, saying, “all I did was write, write, write.”
The “Choosin’ Texas” vocalist told nan outlet that storytelling is successful her blood, noting, her “dad’s an unthinkable storyteller” and truthful was her grandpa. “Storytelling is what my family did,” she said.
When speaking pinch Theo Von connected nan podcast, she credited her grandparents connected her father’s broadside for nurturing her emotion of music, saying her “grandpa could play thing by ear.”
“I was, like, nan first woman successful nan family, and I started to lucifer transportation pinch [my grandma] arsenic a baby, and truthful she figured retired I could sing, and singing was her thing, and my grandpa could, for illustration I said, play immoderate instrumentality by ear, and truthful astatine their house, that’s each we did,” she said
“I sang astatine religion a lot. I learned really to publication from singing hymnals,” she added. “I really, conscionable nan full time, like, my full family, we each conscionable were like, ‘This is what she’s gonna do.'”
