{"id":2262159,"date":"2026-02-02T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2262159"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:19:10","slug":"country-star-makes-surprising-jesus-comment-at-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/country-star-makes-surprising-jesus-comment-at-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Makes Surprising \u2018Jesus\u2019 Comment At Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Jelly Roll got religious as he was accepting the award for Best Contemporary Country Album at Sunday night\u2019s Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cJesus is for everybody,\u201d said Jelly Roll, who won for his album \u201cBeautifully Broken.\u201d \u201cJesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Jelly Roll, who also won for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance earlier in the night, started off his acceptance speech by thanking his \u201cbeautiful wife,\u201d podcaster Bunnie Xo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI want to thank my beautiful wife,\u201d Jelly Roll said. \u201cI would have never changed my life without you. I would have ended up dead or in jail. I would have killed myself if it wasn\u2019t for you and Jesus. I thank you for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>He then thanked his record label and country radio. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThere was a time in my life, y\u2019all, that I was broken. That\u2019s why I wrote this album. I didn\u2019t think I had a chance, y\u2019all. There were days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a Bible this big,\u201d Jelly Roll said, while holding up a small Bible, \u201cand a radio the same size in a 6-by-8-foot cell, and I believed that those two things could change my life. I believed that music had the power to change my life and God had the power to change my life, and I want to tell y\u2019all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Throughout his teens and early 20s, Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, was arrested multiple times for charges including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/26\/arts\/music\/jelly-roll-whitsitt-chapel.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"aggravated robbery and possession with intent to sell\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69800bfde4b03611979004fc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/26\/arts\/music\/jelly-roll-whitsitt-chapel.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">aggravated robbery and possession with intent to sell<\/a>. He earned his GED at age 23 while in jail. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Jelly Roll turned to religion a few years ago after his daughter asked about getting baptized in the Christian church. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>While promoting \u201cHard Fought Hallelujah,\u201d Jelly Roll\u2019s duet with Christian singer Brandon Lake, Jelly Roll said that while he\u2019s been called a \u201clukewarm\u201d Christian or a \u201ccussing Christian,\u201d faith has changed his life. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI might wear it a little different than other people, I might say things that other Christians don\u2019t think are right to say, but ultimately, I have a heart for God and I have a heart for Jesus,\u201d Jelly Roll said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Roll got religious as he was accepting the award for Best Contemporary Country Album at Sunday night\u2019s Grammy Awards. \u201cJesus is for everybody,\u201d said Jelly Roll, who won for his album \u201cBeautifully Broken.\u201d \u201cJesus is not owned by one political party. 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