This is not a shortened press bio. It is the long version of the story Ben already tells in public — farm, wreckage, church, radio, Opry, tour — stitched from the official site, the records, and interviews he has sat for. Where a fact is not published, it is not here.
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The farm · 1987–2010s
Southern Vermont, a dairy barn, and the first songs
Ben Fuller was born February 10, 1987, and grew up on his family's dairy farm in southern Vermont. The work was not a backdrop. It was the day. He worked alongside his father, learned what it cost to keep a herd and a family going, and filled the hours by singing old classic country tunes while the barn did what barns do.
Continue this chapterThe wreckage · 2015–2017
The long night: addiction, a relationship, a funeral
The farm story is not a tidy origin myth. Ben has been public, for years, about the other inheritance: generations of hurt in his family, cocaine and alcohol at a young age, and a life that got smaller the more he tried to fill it.
Continue this chapterThe turn · 2018
Nashville, a Sunday morning, and a different kind of music
Motivated to change, Ben moved to Nashville to pursue country music. The city was supposed to be a career. It became a conversion. A family he was close with invited him to church one Sunday. Walking the halls into an auditorium of about 3,000 people, he has said he knew — in that room — that he would sing “that kind of music” for the rest of his life.
Continue this chapterBreakthrough · 2022
Who I Am: the song that opened the door
Provident Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment, signed Ben after the independent work found an audience. Who I Am arrived in September 2022. The title track reached No. 1 on multiple Christian radio charts, including Billboard Christian Airplay, Billboard ACI, Billboard AC Monitored, and Mediabase AC Monitored — a stack of number-ones that still sits on the official bio as the moment the industry had to take the Vermont story seriously.
Continue this chapterThe streaming era · 2023–2024
If I Got Jesus, and a song that would not stay in its lane
The self-titled album Ben Fuller arrived October 20, 2023, on Provident. It carried Who I Am forward and placed If I Got Jesus at the center of the live show. The official site is precise about the numbers that followed: If I Got Jesus has surpassed 136 million streams and generated more than 1.9 billion short-form video views. Both Who I Am and If I Got Jesus were certified RIAA Gold in 2026.
Continue this chapterThe circle gets bigger · 2025
Carrie Underwood, the Dove Awards, and Walk Through Fire
Ben collaborated with country superstar Carrie Underwood on If It Was Up to Me. They performed the song together at the 2025 Dove Awards — a public, televised meeting of his testimony and one of country's most recognizable voices. The studio visualizer and the later live-from-the-road cut both live in the official video library.
Continue this chapterNashville rooms · 2024–2025
The Grand Ole Opry, CMA Fest, and the live cut
The official bio is careful here: Ben has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and CMA Fest and toured alongside some of Christian music's biggest artists. The Opry is not a metaphor in this catalog. Black Sheep (Live on The Grand Ole Opry) is its own official release, with a VEVO music video shot in that room. If It Was Up To Me and If I Got Jesus also exist as Opry live recordings on Songs From The Smoke.
Continue this chapterHeadline · 2026
The Black Sheep Tour: 28 cities, a live album, a second leg
The Black Sheep Tour was Ben's first major headline run. The official site records that it sold out nearly all 28 cities on the opening leg, establishing him as a rising headliner and pushing the work into fairs, festivals, and international rooms. CCM Magazine's July 2026 cover story put numbers on the miles: over 10,000 miles, tens of thousands of people, and more than 130 baptisms. Ben, the piece notes, shifts when those stats are read back to him. He would rather talk about a man named Michael.
Continue this chapterThe work · Now
Still sober. Still telling it like it is.
Today Ben lives in Nashville, signed to Provident Label Group, completely sober, and still writing from the same sentence: a life transformed by Jesus, pointed at anyone who thinks they are too far gone to come home. The official site's last line is the assignment, not a slogan: through every song and performance, he remains committed to sharing that story and pointing others toward the hope he has found in Christ.
Continue this chapter
The bio, uncut
Ben Fuller is one of Christian music's most compelling voices, combining country influences, heartfelt songwriting, and an unmistakable story of redemption. Raised on his family's dairy farm in Southern Vermont, Ben's life was transformed after an encounter with Jesus in 2018 set him free from addiction and gave him a new purpose: sharing the hope and freedom he found in Christ through music. Since then, Ben's personal testimony has become the heartbeat behind a rapidly growing career. His breakout single, "Who I Am," reached No. 1 on multiple Christian radio charts, while "If I Got Jesus" has surpassed 136 million streams and generated more than 1.9 billion short-form video views. Both songs were certified RIAA Gold in 2026. Ben has also collaborated with country superstar Carrie Underwood on "If It Was Up to Me," which they performed together at the 2025 Dove Awards. Ben has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and CMA Fest and toured alongside some of Christian music's biggest artists. His first major headline tour, The Black Sheep Tour, sold out nearly all 28 cities, establishing Ben as a rising headliner and expanding his reach into major fairs, festivals, and international markets. Through every song and performance, Ben remains committed to sharing the story of a life transformed by Jesus and pointing others toward the hope he has found in Christ.
Longer first-person-style bio
Music has taken Ben Fuller's life and made it into something he never would have dreamed. Ben grew up in Southern Vermont on his family dairy farm working alongside his father. He'd pass the time by singing to old classic country tunes as he witnessed first-hand the hard work and dedication it took to run a farm. The songs never stopped and somewhere between the farm and college, he picked up a guitar and never looked back. Due to generations of hurt in his family, Ben struggled with certain aspects of growing up and turned to cocaine and alcohol at a young age. In 2015, Ben got involved in a devastating drug-fueled relationship which led him to understand better, the other side of addiction. In addition, come 2017, he abruptly lost his best friend to a heroin overdose and his entire outlook on life shifted. Motivated to change, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a country singer in late 2018. A family Ben was close with invited him to church one Sunday and as he walked the halls into the auditorium filled with 3,000 people, he knew one day he would sing "that kind of music" for the rest of his life. Falling face-first into his newfound relationship with Jesus, he began writing with a burning desire to share what God did to turn his life around. Today, Ben lives completely sober, while sharing his story filled with hope, mercy and grace.