Hannah Harper, is an American country singer-songwriter, born on November 19,
1999, in Bunker, Missouri, and raised around Willow Springs, Missouri. She began
singing as a child in a bluegrass gospel family group, The Harper Family,
touring from 2009 to 2016 before stepping back from regular performing while
building a family. After marrying Devon Mendenhall in 2018 and becoming a mother
of three, she returned to songwriting with “String Cheese,” a 2025 original
about motherhood and postpartum depression. The song became the center of her
2026 American Idol audition, where her st...