Carter Faith Jones (born June 14, 2000), known professionally as Carter Faith, is an American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
singer and songwriter. She has released two EPs, "Let Love Be Love" and "Man".
Biography
Faith is a native of
Davidson, North Carolina
Davidson is a suburban town located in northern Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, North Carolina, United States, on the banks of Lake Norman. It is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,944 at the 2010 census, and in ...
. She has an older sister and a younger brother, Griffin Jones, who is also a musical artist; he uses the stage name Grifdorf. Her father is a lawyer who represented
Peter Angelos
Peter G. Angelos (born July 4, 1929) is an American trial lawyer and baseball executive from Baltimore, Maryland. Angelos is the majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles, a team in the American League of Major League Baseball.
Early life and educ ...
, majority owner of the
Baltimore Orioles
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.
Although she grew up in a non-musical family, at a young age, she was inspired by her grandfather's country music cassette tapes. She taught herself piano and guitar and at age 16, she began writing lyrics, inspired by the end of a relationship. She attended Grammy Camp in Nashville where she performed at the
Bluebird Café
The Bluebird Café is a 90-seat music club in Nashville, Tennessee that opened in 1982. The club features acoustic music performed by both established singer-songwriters, and cover artists. The Bluebird receives over 70,000 visitors annually. T ...
and was a featured performer in the 2016 Thanksgiving Day Parade in Charlotte. In June 2018, she graduated from
Cannon School
Cannon School is an independent, nonsectarian, college preparatory institution serving students in junior kindergarten through grade 12. The school enrolled approximately 1040 students for the 2022–2023 school year. Cannon School is located in ...
. In the fall of 2018, she enrolled in a songwriting program at Belmont University. In September 2018, she sang
The Star-Spangled Banner
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at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. In 2019, she signed with Pound It Out Loud Entertainment. Faith's first song titled "Leaving Tennessee" debuted in July 2020, and was followed by "Sinners in a Small Town" and "Easy Pill" later that year. In October 2020, she signed an artist development deal with Altadena, a record company founded by
busbee
Michael James Ryan Busbee (June 18, 1976 – September 29, 2019), known professionally as Busbee, was an American songwriter, record producer, publisher, record label executive, and multi-instrumentalist. He is known for his work in both po ...
. "The Dusk Session", which included acoustic versions of "Easy Pill" and "Leaving Tennessee", was released in April 2021. In July 2021, she made her first performance at the Ryman Auditorium. On August 20, 2021, she released her debut EP ''Let Love Be Love''. In September 2021, she was the
opening act
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Billboard
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''.
In June 2022, she made her debut at the ''
Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a weekly American country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a divis ...
''.
In November 2022, she released the single "Already Crazy", which she co-wrote with Tofer Brown and Lauren Hungate.
Personal life
Faith is based in Nashville and is a part of the
Song Suffragettes
Song Suffragettes is a weekly writer's round held in Nashville, Tennessee featuring rotating female country artists. Song Suffragettes is a collective of female singer-songwriters who stand together in the face of systemic gender-disparity in th ...