NF

NF is rapper and composer Nate Feuerstein, whose raw emotions and honest lyrics have launched him to multi-platinum success. After his 2015 album Mansion and its 2016 follow-up, Therapy Session, both reached number one on the Christian charts, NF’s breakthrough occurred in 2017, when, buoyed by the Top 20 hit “Let You Down,” his album Perception hit number one on the Billboard 200 and achieved double-platinum sales. His momentum continued with 2019’s second platinum-selling Billboard 200 chart-topper The Search, 2021’s Top Five mixtape Clouds, and 2023’s uplifting Hope.

Born in 1991 in Gladwin, Michigan, Feuerstein endured a hardship-filled childhood in which his parents divorced, his mother’s boyfriend physically abused him, and his mother died. Music was his escape, and he began recording songs on a karaoke machine, with instrumentals on one microphone and his raps in the other. Feuerstein independently released his debut album, Moments, in 2010. It attracted the attention of Xist Music, which signed him to a recording deal in 2012, by which time he had taken the stage name NF. The label announced the release of an EP that same year, but it never appeared, and NF and Xist parted ways.