My name is Nathaniel Allen, but you can call me Nate. I've been playing music since I was six years old and writing music since I was ten. Piano lessons came first, and then I taught myself pretty much everything else in my teens and early twenties. I also minored in music in college, but that was more of a broad-strokes overview of musicianship and theory than a set of specific lessons on an instrument or concept. I released my first single back in 2018 in the first semester of my freshman year of college- Echoes of Bells. I'd been kicking around a Carol of the Bells arrangement for months, and my mentor at the time encouraged me to release it somewhere after hearing it on the way to church one morning. I haven't stopped recording and releasing music since.

I was originally inspired to write when I heard a song that took a bible story I'd heard 100s of times and came at it from a new and creative angle. It pulled the message out of the passage and presented it in a thought-provoking way that I'd never considered before then. I didn't know that music could be like that, and I started writing shortly thereafter. Since then I've been chasing down artists that inspire me with their work at the same level that one song did when I was ten. At the same time, I've been chasing that quality in my own music as I've refined it over years.

I've been blessed to find and appreciate so much music that I believe glorifies God in different ways. I consider myself to be a minuscule part of this fantastic tapestry of musical artistry here on this side of eternity, and I'm deeply grateful for that opportunity. As time has gone on, my music has solidified itself into a very specific category- songs to remind people that they are not alone in their experiences and struggles. They are not always positive or encouraging in the way people often expect "Christian" music to be, but any time I think I've been too honest or raw in a song someone expresses just how much that track means to them. It's my hope that anyone who listens to my music can point to at least one track and say that they've been there too.