A self-proclaimed "flower child" and vegetarian, she attributes her creativity to her father, who died when she was five years old.
At the age of 12, Casey J joined the Atlanta Young Singers of Callanwolde and sang with them until she enrolled at the University of Georgia.
It hit the top ten of the US Billboard Gospel Airplay chart that spring and reached the number 1 spot in 2015.
[7][8] The song "Fill Me Up" is featured on Casey J's debut album, The Truth, released April 21, 2015, by Tyscot Records.
[13] Her music has been described by The New York Times as deviating slightly from the Gospel norm: "a little less thundering funk and abrupt style-switching, and a little more acoustic guitar; a little less prescriptive real-talk, and a little more contemplative interior monologue".