Jon Langston

Early and personal life

Langston was born Jonathan Thomas Langston, on April 8, 1991, in Loganville, Georgia, to Rob and Kathryn Langston. He attended Gardner–Webb University to be a player on their football team, where this was sidelined because of the concussions he suffered.

Music career

His music career began at a show in Kennesaw, Georgia in 2013, where he was the opening act for Chase Rice. He released an independently made extended play in 2013, Runnin' on Sunshine. The extended play, Showtime, was released on May 5, 2015, with Treehouse Records. This extended play was his breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, where it peaked at No. 26 on the Top Country Albums chart, No. 22 on the Independent Albums chart, and No. 8 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. His second extended play, Jon Langston, was independently released on December 11, 2015. It placed on the same Billboard magazine charts, where this time it got No. 25 on the Top Country Albums, No. 13 on Independent Albums, and No. 1 on the Heatseekers Albums.

Langston is featured on the song "Yung and Dum" by American metalcore band Issues, taken from their second full-length album, Headspace, which was released on May 20, 2016.