Jon Foreman

Best known as the frontman and chief songwriter of Switchfoot, Jon Foreman has straddled the line between mainstream alt-rock and Christian music since the mid-1990s. He broadened both his sound and his resume during the 2000s, releasing a pair of albums with the side project Fiction Family and maintaining a popular solo career throughout much of Switchfoot's tenure. Born in San Bernardino County, California, on October 22, 1976, Jon Foreman formed Switchfoot in 1996 and composed the bulk of the material on the band's 1997 debut, The Legend of Chin. In 2003, his songwriting hit a new peak with Switchfoot's double-platinum The Beautiful Letdown, which topped the Christian charts in America and peaked at Number 16 on the Billboard 200. "Meant To Live" and "Dare You To Move," both written and sung by Jon Foreman, became gold-certified Top 40 hits. The band's next six albums would all chart within the Top 20 on the Billboard 200, making Switchfoot one of the most successful American rock acts of the 2000s. While continuing to write, record, and tour with the group, Jon Foreman launched a concurrent solo career with 2007's Fall, the first in a series of four seasonal EPs. He also formed Fiction Family with Nickel Creek's Sean Watkins, releasing the self-titled Fiction Family in 2009 and Fiction Family Reunion in 2013. Jon Foreman continued releasing solo EPs throughout the 2010s before making his full-length debut with 2021's Departures, an ambitious and stylistically-diverse album that included the Top 40 Christian single "A Place Called Earth."