Ella Langley’s parents, Jason and Heather Langley, have always known their daughter was destined for the stage.

The country singer was born in 1999 as the second-oldest sibling of Jason and Heather’s four children. Her rapid rise to fame is no surprise to her parents, who have been witnessing their daughter command the stage since she was just a toddler growing up in Hope Hull, Ala.

“My mom tells a story where my grandpa sits down at the piano and we’re going to do ‘Amazing Grace,’ and my mom’s trying to help me with the microphone and I’m 3 years old, and I’m like, ‘I got it. I know how to do it,’ and everyone in church is laughing,” Ella recalled to Billboard in August 2024. “So this is what I’ve always wanted to do.”

Ella’s parents have always supported her pursuing her dreams, even when they took her away from their family home in Alabama to Nashville, where she moved in 2019.

“My family supports me the way that they do and just love me,” Ella said on the God’s Country podcast in December 2024. “If you ask any of my family, they’re like, ‘Yeah, we all knew that this was what she was going to do.’ ”

From their musical background to their other kids, here’s everything to know about Ella Langley’s parents, Jason and Heather Langley.

Jason and Heather wed on April 18, 1998.

In the years since, Heather has commemorated several of their anniversaries on social media, including in April 2022, when she shared a photo of the couple walking down the aisle as newlyweds on her Instagram.

“24 years since this hunky man changed our lives forever. Love you honey,” Heather wrote in the caption.

Heather posted another throwback photo from their nuptials on her Instagram for their 20th wedding anniversary in April 2018.

“Double-decade anniversary with this guy. ❤️ #20years,” she captioned the portrait.

Ella is the second-oldest of four children. Her brother Thomas was born in July 1991, followed by the singer herself in May 1999, Stuart in March 2001 and Katie in July 2007.

Jason and Heather raised their on a farm in Hope Hull, a rural suburb of Montgomery, Ala.

“I always have to say a small town outside Montgomery because if I say Hope Hull first, they will say, what’s that and where’s that?” Ella told WSFA about her hometown in November 2021. “Home is a place I go to feel safe. It’s a place where people have loved and supported me from day one.”

Growing up in between two brothers led Ella to become a self-proclaimed tomboy and even influenced her music later on. Her 2020 single, “One of the Guys,” was inspired by life with her brothers, she previously told ProCountryMusic.com.

“I grew up in the country in Alabama between two rowdy brothers, so I spent a lot of my childhood trying to prove that I was as fearless and tough as they were,” she said. “My band or anyone who knows me will tell you that sometimes I can seem more like a guy than a girl, but I think women can still be tough, direct and strong, without apologizing for who they are or how they think.”

Ella grew up surrounded by talented musicians — particularly her paternal grandparents. From the time she was a little girl, Jason’s mother and father exposed Ella to different instruments and genres.

“My grandparents on my dad’s side were super musically inclined,” Ella told WSFA. “My grandpa would always play the piano. Before I could even talk they would sit me down on the piano and I would hum to whatever he was playing.”

More than the piano, Ella’s grandfather could “play every instrument by ear,” she shared on the God’s Country podcast in December 2024.

“My grandpa was, I mean, he could sing. My grandma could sing,” she shared. “Our family reunions, all of them would get together and everyone was singing.”

Ella’s very first guitar even belonged to her paternal grandfather. After his father’s death, Jason had the guitar restrung and gifted it to his older daughter, she told the Montgomery Advertiser in September 2017.

“When he gave it to me, I immediately started looking up chords, and before I went to bed that night, I had taught myself to play ‘Three Little Birds’ by Bob Marley,” she said.

Years later in 2024, Ella would write and record a song titled “Closest to Heaven” that she dedicated to her grandparents. She told Billboard in August 2024 that the song was inspired by one of the final conversations her grandparents had together before her grandfather’s death.

“I’ll never know what was said in that room, so this is my song about what I think was said,” Ella said.

In addition to her grandparents, Ella credits her parents with making music a constant presence in her life. Music was always playing in their home and her parents introduced her to a variety of different genres from a young age. As a result, Ella describes her musical influences as “everything from rock, country, alternative, folk music.”

“I grew [up] in a family where music was important,” Ella told the Montgomery Advertiser in September 2017. “If we were riding down the road, music was playing. So in my dad’s truck I heard a lot of big rock bands, old school country and even disco. My dad, my brothers, my sister and I would be singing ‘Mama Tried’ at the top of our lungs.”

Meanwhile, Heather “played everything from Peter, Paul, & Mary to 80s new wave to Pearl Jam,” Ella continued. “So I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of music from the start.”

After graduating from Hooper Academy in Hope Hull, Ella went on to attend Auburn University, pursuing a degree in forestry while singing in bars at the same time. But in 2019, she made the decision to leave school to move to Nashville and pursue music.

“I called mom and dad and I said, ‘Hey, I think I want to drop out of school and move to Nashville,’ ” she recalled to Country Now in December 2024. “I mean, I’m going to go do this anyways. I would rather start it now.’ ”

Her parents were supportive of her decision, with Heather encouraging her to view Nashville as a different type of education. “My mom would always say, ‘This is your college. This is your schooling to move there,’ ” she told Audacy Music in December 2024.

Heather and Jason have continued to support Ella’s music career, attending many of her concerts, including both of her performances at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

“From Jamey introducing Ella, to y’all hollaring in the audience who came to support her, to being there with my family, to the love she felt from everyone listening and supporting from home. It was magic,” Heather wrote in a February 2023 Instagram caption alongside a carousel of videos and pictures from her daughter’s first show there. “You are all part of this and man, we are so grateful ❤️.”

In March 2025, Heather and Jason were there to see her exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which was titled “American Currents: State of the Music” and showcased some of country music’s rising stars. Included in the exhibit was Ella’s costume from her “You Look Like You Love Me” music video, as well as her old tip jar, which contained the last $100 she made from cover gigs.

“Ella, we are so proud of you!!” Heather wrote in an Instagram post from the event.

In a September 2023 Instagram video, Ella walked fans through all of her tattoos, from three black birds to a playing card. The bumblebee on the inside of one of her forearms, however, was inspired by Heather, as her mom has always called her “Ella Bee.”

Despite the sweet sentiment behind it, Ella’s father was not a fan, she revealed in a September 2024 TikTok.

“My dad’s like, ‘What is that bug on your arm?’ ” Ella said in the clip. “He’s like, ‘What if you want to be a Sunday school teacher?’ ”

Another one of Ella’s tattoos is a nod to both of her parents: She sports the coordinates of her childhood home along her forearm.

Ella and her father, Jason, share a passion for hunting. The singer-songwriter has shared several Instagram photos of her and her father enjoying hunting trips together over the years, referring to him as the “best hunting buddy.”

Jason has opened up about how hunting with Ella is a bonding experience for the father and daughter.

“I love [hunting],” Jason said on the God’s Country podcast. “We’d spend all weekend riding around, her listening to my music in the back seat, or we’d go hunting or fishing or whatever it was.”

When it came time to purchase her first home, Ella returned to her roots. In July 2025, the CMA winner bought a waterfront property in Montgomery, per Realtor.com.

The property, which sits on a lake and has a horse barn, is also just minutes away from where her parents live. The decision to purchase a home in Alabama (as opposed to Nashville) was motivated by Ella’s desire to have a place where she could decompress.

“It just brings me back to who I am at the root of me every time I go back there,” Ella told Audacy in July 2025 of the purchase. “And when it comes to writing songs and being in that state of mind, I think it’s important to have a place like that.”