In 2026, Tiera Kennedy is an artist creating from a place of rootedness, faith, and hard-won clarity.

Born and raised in Gardendale, Alabama, Tiera grew up surrounded by music in all its forms — the bluegrass musicians who shaped her earliest sense of what a song could hold, and the R&B and Gospel her parents played around the house — music that knew how to carry both joy and sorrow in the same breath. She carried all of it with her when she left home, recording her first music at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals before spending the better part of a decade in Nashville learning the craft, building the business, and finding her way back to herself.

The world was listening. Lifelong hero Beyoncé invited Tiera to sing on Cowboy Carter — the 2025 GRAMMY Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year — where she appears on "BLACKBIIRD" and provides background vocals on "TYRANT." The invitation confirmed what her most attentive listeners already knew.

That same year, she released ROOTED — her full-length debut album, October 18, 2024. Eleven unfiltered, self-penned songs across R&B and Country. ROOTED was not a debut in the traditional sense — it was a declaration. The first time the world could hear what had always been there.

Invested in by generations of cross-genre talent before her, Tiera was mentored by pop country icon Shania Twain in the early years of her Nashville journey, and collaborated with Dolly Parton and Dionne Warwick on the music video for their duet, "Peace Like A River."

In January 2026, Tiera released "The Giver" — the moment the gospel thread she had always carried in her bones found its full voice in her music. It was the sound of a woman settling into the fullness of who she has always been.

But the moments are not the measure. Tiera Kennedy is, at her core, an artist who creates from what is real — from morning walks, from soil under her hands, from the unhurried practice of paying attention to what is alive and growing. Her music invites people to slow down, to feel something they had almost forgotten, and to come back to themselves. The faith is not a label she wears — it is the ground everything else is planted in.

What she is tending next is already taking root.