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Jelly Roll says there's an easy way for him to tell when someone knows him — and it starts by how they call his name. The 39-year-old country singer, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, recently revealed on the “Taste of Country Nights” podcast what he prefers to be called in public. “I think people call me Jelly. If you know me, or feel like you know me, you call me Jelly. I respond to Jelly better than Jelly Roll,” he said on the podcast. “If you say Jelly Roll, I kinda go, ‘Aww s---.
'They all know I live in that little community, so it’s more like, they talk about cool neighbor stuff. Like, ‘Did you hear about such and such’s farm selling? Or, what about that storm that knocked down a tree?’ Cool s---, ya know?” Jelly Roll revealed the origin of his unique stage name during a 2022 interview on “The Bobby Bones Show.” 'I obviously look the part,' he said. 'My mother named me that when I was a little chubby kid, been fat my whole life.
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