Jacob Whitesides was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 11, 1997. It was
also here that he grew up and discovered music, realizing that he wanted to make
a career of it when he was just eleven years old and attending a bluegrass
festival with his family in 2008. He was still just 14 in 2012 when the American
public discovered him during auditions for The X Factor . It wasn't long before
the young musician, a few weeks later, released his first EP entitled 3AM - The
EP, in which he covered songs by John Legend, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith. This
recording helped him break into ...