Adeem the Artist

Adeem Maria Bingham (born 1988), known professionally as Adeem the Artist, is an American country music singer. They have released nine studio albums and four EPs.

Early life Adeem the Artist was born in 1988. They were born in Locust, North Carolina but when they were 12 years old, their family moved to Syracuse, New York. They later moved to Knoxville, Tennessee with the intent of being a pastor, but later abandoned this plan and began recording music. In 2016, they performed tribute shows for John Prine and Joni Mitchell in Knoxville.

Career In 2021, after releasing several independent albums on Bandcamp, Adeem released the album Cast-Iron Pansexual. Adeem largely funded the album through Patreon and wrote most of its songs in 2020. They premiered their tracks on the website Audio Femme that March. American Songwriter described Adeem as having a "scruffy timbre". The editors of this site also selected "I Wish You Would've Been a Cowboy", a response to Toby Keith's 1993 hit "Should've Been a Cowboy". Adeem co-wrote the song, which is critical of Keith's patriotism, with Palestinian-American poet Summer Awad. Steve Wildsmith of The Daily Times wrote that the album had a "rich currency of exploration, past-life condemnation and present-day illumination." "Middle of a Heart" was also released from the album in October 2022, followed by "Run This Town" a month later. Their first Thirty Tigers album, White Trash Revelry, was released in December 2022.

In 2023, Adeem the Artist was nominated for Emerging Act of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards. Adeem the Artist released a new single titled "One Night Stand" from their next Thirty Tigers album Anniversary.

On September 9, 2025, Adeem the Artist announced in a social media post that "As of right now, Atlanta Pride will be my final performance, and then Adeem the Artist is on hiatus.”

Personal life Adeem the Artist identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.

Singles "Sidewalk" (2015) "5th Avenue Homicide" (2017) "The Last Summer" (2017) "Scruffy Little Christmas" (2017) "Pandemic Days" (2020) "Ashes in Flight" (2020) "Tiger Prince of Knoxville" (2020) "Asheville Blues" (2021) "Merry Christmas, Urgent Care" (2021) "I Wish You Would've Been a Cowboy" (2021) "Going to Hell" (2022) "ICU" (2023) "What If We Stayed"(2023)