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.
Read it in order, or skip to the chapter you came for. Every section cites the source it stands on.
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.
The songs never really stopped. Somewhere between the farm and college he picked up a guitar and did not put it down. Those early years are the grain in the later records: country phrasing, a working-class pocket, and a voice that still sounds like it was trained on a dirt road rather than a vocal booth.
He played his first show in 2017 at a small bar called Sherry's Place. Not long after, Nashville became the plan. The farm did not vanish from the story. It is still the first image he reaches for when he talks about who he was before the rest of the country learned his name.
Source: Artist biography (official site, Wikipedia, AllMusic)
The 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.
In 2015 he was pulled into a devastating drug-fueled relationship — the season, he has said, that taught him the other side of addiction. In 2017 his best friend died of a heroin overdose. The loss rearranged the furniture. The outlook he had been living with no longer held.
He does not tell that part as a stunt. Later, on the Black Sheep Tour, he would hear the same language back from the people in the room: a gun in a mouth, a cousin in active addiction, a mother lost to alcoholism. The farm boy and the black sheep are the same person. The songs only work because he will still say the second half out loud.
The 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.
The official site names 2018 as the year an encounter with Jesus set him free from addiction and gave him a new purpose: sharing the hope and freedom he found in Christ through music. He began writing with a burning desire to tell what God had done. The independent years that followed — Witness (2020) and a run of early singles including Spark, Town Called Grace, and Find My Faith — were the first public draft of that testimony.
Spark, written about Vermont dairy farmer Romaine Tenney, even found radio airplay before the major-label chapter. The Vermont farm was still in the songs. It just had a different ending.
Breakthrough · 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.
Pandora named him one of the Christian/Gospel Artists to Watch in 2023. The album itself — World Changed, Wide Awake, Other Plans, But the Cross, He Found Me, Proud, Chasing Rebels — is the first full-length map of the testimony: not a branding exercise, a set of songs that still get sung on the road.
Who I Am was later certified RIAA Gold in 2026, alongside If I Got Jesus. The gold records did not invent the story. They confirmed that a lot of people had already recognized themselves in it.
Source: Official site · Billboard chart history via Wikipedia
The 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.
That is not a trivia line. It is the reason a dairy-farm testimony became a headlining tour. The song moved through churches, truck radios, and the unforgiving math of short-form video without losing the sentence at its core: if I got Jesus, I got it all.
Around it sat the rest of the self-titled record — Man on Fire, He Got a Hold of Me, Chasing Rebels, Testimony, He Found Me — and a run of 2024 singles that pointed toward the next album: Don't Let Me Forget, Turn, Black Sheep. The catalog was no longer a debut. It was a body of work.
The 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.
Walk Through Fire, the 2025 studio album, gathered the season: Walk With Me, Deeper Still, Yet To Come, If It Was Up To Me, Turn, Don't Let Me Forget, If I Got Jesus, Since Jesus, Black Sheep, See What I Mean, Higher, I'll Sing For You. In October 2025 came Walk Through Fire: Songs From The Smoke, a 19-track companion with Opry live moments folded in.
Other rooms opened in the same stretch. Let It Begin with Megan Woods and Big Daddy Weave. Still Waters (Psalm 23) in acoustic form. Prove A Thing with CAIN. Black Sheep II with KB. East to West with Casting Crowns had already arrived in 2023. None of those features are invented partnerships. They are on the records, on the official channel, and on the site you are standing in.
Source: Official bio · Apple Music catalog · YouTube (BenFullerVEVO)
Nashville 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.
For a Vermont kid who moved to town to chase country music and found a church instead, the Opry circle is a particular kind of full stop. The live cut is not a souvenir. It is the sound of the testimony standing in a room that used to be the dream, singing a different song than the one he thought he came to town to write.
Source: Official site · BenFullerVEVO
Headline · 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.
JubileeCast, reporting the live album in June 2026, quoted him on that story: “I can't help looking back now that maybe the whole tour was just for Michael. Jesus still loved and chose him despite everything.” The live album Black Sheep Tour: Songs From The Road — thirteen tracks, released June 12, 2026 — is the authorized document of those nights. He has said it was recorded after the second night on tour, which is why it sounds like a band catching up to a room that was already on fire.
After the spring run, Ben announced the final fall leg with Band Reeves: West Monroe, Schriever, Magnolia, Wilmington, Virginia Beach, Sumter, Union City, Bartlett, Pontotoc, Cedar Rapids, Findlay, Merrillville — dates he posted himself in July 2026, with tickets through the official site and Awakening Events. West Monroe opened sold out. The black sheep, it turns out, travel in a pack.
Source: Official bio · CCM Magazine (July 2026) · JubileeCast · Ben Fuller Music on X
The 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.
CCM Magazine's 2026 cover story caught him in a quieter register. “I think I'm still taking the eraser to the S on my chest.” The black sheep language is not a merch concept. It is how he recognizes the people who find him after the show — and how they recognize him.
This site is built to hold that story in one place: the records, the videos, the dates, the partnership with Eight Days of Hope, the people who book the rooms. Nothing here is invented to make the page look full. If a chapter is missing, it is because it has not been published somewhere we can verify. The farm, the wreckage, the Sunday morning, the gold records, the Opry, the tour — those are public. The rest belongs to him.
The official 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 (Spotify / CMA)
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.
Photography from the official site (Wayback capture of dist/img). Album art from Apple Music. No invented quotes.