JJ Heller

JJ Heller is an American Christian folk singer and songwriter from San José, California. Born Jennifer Judy Kellner on October 19, 1980, she started writing songs in her second year of college and later met future husband Dave Heller while both were playing in a band together. Even though she began her music career in 2004 with the album Songs That I Know, it wasn't until 2008 that she scored her first charting effort with the full-length Painted Red, which rose to Number 12 on the US folk charts thanks to the single "What Love Really Means." In the following years, albums such as When I'm with You (2010) and Loved (2013) cracked the Top 10 of Billboard's Folk Albums chart and cemented her popularity in the Christian folk scene. In the following years, she remained a regular presence on both the folk and Christian charts in the United States, largely due to the great reception of releases like I Dream of You (2014), Sound of a Living Heart (2015), the Christmas album Unto Us (2016), I Dream of You Vol. II (2018), and I Dream of You Vol. III (2021). Later that year, her single "Welcome to Our World" from the EP of the same name peaked at Number 49 on the Christian Airplay Top 50.