{"id":2562224,"date":"2026-02-02T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jelly-rolls-authentic-praise-of-jesus-at-grammys\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:36:40","slug":"jelly-rolls-authentic-praise-of-jesus-at-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jelly-rolls-authentic-praise-of-jesus-at-grammys\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll&#8217;s &#8216;authentic&#8217; praise of Jesus at Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjelly-rolls-authentic-praise-of-jesus-at-grammys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2562224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At the 2026 grammys, country artist Jelly Roll (Jason deford) accepted the award for Best Contemporary Country album for Beautifully Broken and gave a heartfelt, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >faith-centered speech crediting god<\/a> and music with changing his life, saying \u201cJesus is for everybody\u201d and that faith transcends politics and industry labels. Washington Examiner senior writer Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sport-stadium-tributes-to-charlie-kirk-outshine-f-ice-at-emmys-joe-concha\/\" title=\"Sport stadium tributes to Charlie Kirk outshine &#039;f*** ICE&#039; at Emmys: Joe ...\">concha praised<\/a> the remarks as authentic on Fox &#038; Friends First, saying they came from the heart and were unscripted. The event also featured other celebrities making religious or political comments\u2014Bad Bunny and SZA referenced God while criticizing ICE operations, and Billie Eilish declared \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land.\u201d Concha dismissed many of those political statements as coming from an \u201celitist bubble\u201d and suggested Bad Bunny\u2019s remarks foreshadowed his upcoming Super Bowl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-weeknd-reveals-why-his-performers-wore-bandages-at-the-super-bowl\/\" title=\"The Weeknd Reveals Why His Performers Wore Bandages At The ...\">halftime performance<\/a>, a factor cited by former President Trump in explaining why he planned to skip the game.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Jelly Roll&rsquo;s &lsquo;authentic&rsquo; praise of Jesus at Grammys contrasts other celebrities: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2489861\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> senior writer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4441322\/fact-check-al-gore-inconvenient-truth-20th-anniversary\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> heralded the &ldquo;awesome&rdquo; praise that musician Jelly Roll gave to God and Jesus Christ during the 2026 Grammys on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3926946\/singer-jelly-roll-pardoned-tennessee-governor\/\">Jelly Roll<\/a>, whose real name is Jason DeFord, took to the stage in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4441976\/left-wing-agitator-attack-officer-los-angeles-bass-warn-military\/\">Los Angeles<\/a> to accept the award for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/awards\/68th-annual-grammy-awards-2025\">Best Contemporary Country Album<\/a> for <em>Beautifully Broken<\/em>. He said he wrote the album because he used to be &ldquo;broken&rdquo; with only a small Bible and a radio &ldquo;the same size,&rdquo; but believed they could &ldquo;change my life.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4442537\/trump-threatens-sue-grammy-host-trevor-noah-epstein-comments\/\">Trump threatens to sue Grammy host Trevor Noah over Epstein comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4442514\/celebrities-blast-ice-at-grammys\/\">Celebrities blast Trump, ICE, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/businesses-nationwide-participated-in-a-day-without-immigrants-protest-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Businesses nationwide participated in a \u2018day without immigrants\u2019 protest - Washington Examiner\">illegal immigration enforcement operations<\/a> at Grammys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4442261\/melania-8-million-opening-weekend-documentary\/\">Melania Trump&#8217;s $8 million opening best documentary debut in over 10 years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I believe that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell ya&rsquo;ll right now: Jesus is for everybody!&rdquo; Jelly Roll said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Jesus is not owned by one political party! Jesus is not owned by no music label, Jesus is Jesus, and anybody can have a relationship with Him! I love you, Lord!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LdoMOENFDKQ?si=d6gLEFXFInBHvWvC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>Concha praised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/country-star-tyler-hubbard-says-intentional-fatherhood-is-worth-prioritizing-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... star Tyler Hubbard says \u2018intentional\u2019 fatherhood is worth prioritizing - Washington Examiner\">musician&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s speech as &ldquo;authentic,&rdquo; saying it &ldquo;came from the heart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Clearly, he wasn&rsquo;t reading a teleprompter, not a scripted thing he did in the mirror five seconds before that. That Jelly Roll, I mean, he should be, not just performing where he does onstage for his millions of fans, but on a Sunday morning at church service,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox &amp; Friends First<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would pay to see Jelly Roll even though church is free. I mean, that was awesome!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3354488&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=6ba51863ca5f533e316afa7d13dca783\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Besides Jelly Roll, other musicians such as Bad Bunny also mentioned God while <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4442514\/celebrities-blast-ice-at-grammys\/\">criticizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement&rsquo;s deployment<\/a> in the United States. Billie Eilish said, &ldquo;No one is illegal on stolen land.&rdquo; SZA also said that people are <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/music\/music-news\/sza-dystopian-grammys-people-getting-snatched-up-ice-1236492363\/\">&ldquo;governed by God,&rdquo; not by the government<\/a>, according to the <em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Concha paraphrased <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2258059\/you-know-nothing-about-the-real-world-ricky-gervais-blasts-hollywood-elite-in-scathing-golden-globes-monologue\/\">Ricky Gervais&rsquo;s 2020 Golden Globes speech<\/a> in response to these statements, saying, &ldquo;No one cares about your opinion on this stuff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny can say these things because they are people with heavy security who live in gated communities. They&rsquo;re not dealing with the murderers, rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers that ICE is removing from this country,&rdquo; Concha said. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4442537\/trump-threatens-sue-grammy-host-trevor-noah-epstein-comments\/\"><strong>TRUMP THREATENS TO SUE GRAMMY HOST TREVOR NOAH OVER EPSTEIN COMMENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They have no appreciation for this stuff because they live in an elitist bubble, and obviously showed it there during this awards show last night, where, again, people just are there for the music and they just want to have a good time without having to think about what&rsquo;s going on in the world for a couple of hours.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Concha also suggested Bad Bunny&rsquo;s comments are &ldquo;a preview&rdquo; of what can be expected from his Halftime performance at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4441271\/patriots-seahawks-usa-250-patches-super-bowl-semiquincentennial\/\">Super Bowl<\/a> this Sunday. President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/finance-and-economy\/4442468\/tiana-lowe-doescher-trump-accounts-american-dream\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> cited the musicians, including Green Day&rsquo;s pre-game performance, as why <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4433645\/trump-skipping-super-bowl-bad-bunny-green-day-performance-im-anti-them\/\">he isn&rsquo;t attending this year&rsquo;s game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jelly Roll praises Jesus at Grammys, unlike peers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2562225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26033231484440-e1770045201453.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[60312,5250,13674,17717,69053],"class_list":["post-2562224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-christian-music","tag-faith","tag-gospel","tag-grammys","tag-jelly-roll"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26033231484440-e1770045201453.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562228,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562224\/revisions\/2562228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2562225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}