Jessica Baio

Jessica Courtney Jose, known professionally as Jessica Baio, is an American singer-songwriter and TikTok creator. When she was 11 years old, her cover of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" went viral. She and her husband, Sam Jose, run a TikTok page where they post prank videos.

Early life Jessica Baio was born on February 1, 2002, in Auburn, California. Growing up, she watched talent competition shows such as American Idol and America's Got Talent and decided she wanted to be a singer. Her family struggled financially and would make sacrifices for her music career, including driving her to Los Angeles, California, to try out for the aforementioned shows.

Baio took her first voice lesson and began uploading YouTube videos at the age of 10 after finding out Justin Bieber got discovered through YouTube. At the age of 11, she won an online contest to sing for English singer-songwriter Cher Lloyd. In middle school, she took up piano and guitar. "Trust Issues" came out in September 2022 and received 13 million streams within its first nine months. On March 9, 2023, her song "At Least" was included in the soundtrack of episode 46 of season 9 of Love Island. The next day, she released her debut EP, Catalyst. In January 2024, Rolling Stone magazine included her song "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" in their 'Songs You Need to Know' playlist. She opened for Natalie Jane's Where Am I Again Tour in early 2024.

Baio's debut album, Unsaid (stylized in all caps), was released on November 1, 2024, through 10K Projects. In a review of the album, The Daily Howl described it as a "deeply emotional and sentimental collection of songs" and remarked that Baio "has not only an extraordinary voice capable of anything, but [is] an artist unafraid to explore the unspoken". The release of "Bad Times" was followed by singles such as "Love Me Less", which is about the fear of putting yourself out there, and "Accident", which Earmilk described as "a move from her to deepen her artistic expression and mature her sound". The first part of Baio's sophomore album, Sacred (stylized in all caps), came out on January 9, 2026, through 10k Projects.

Personal life Baio married Sam Jose, whom she met in her freshman year of high school, when she was 18.