Autumn Nelon Streetman
{{Short description|American actress and vocalist}}
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| name = Autumn Nelon Streetman
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| birth_name = Autumn Lynn Thompson
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1997|01|20}}
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| occupation = Southern gospel vocalist
| years_active = 2010-present
| known_for = The Nelons
Gaither Homecoming
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| spouse = {{marriage|Jamie Streetman|2023}}
| children = 1
| parents = Rex Nelon (grandfather)
Kelly Nelon Clark (mother)
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Autumn Nelon Streetman (born January 20, 1997) is an American southern gospel vocalist.{{Cite web |last= |date=October 18, 2017 |title=Autumn Nelon Clark is a Southern Gospel Sweetheart |url=https://www.sgnscoops.com/autumn-nelon-clark-southern-gospel-sweetheart/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=Southern Gospel News SGNScoops Digital |language=en-US}}
Background
Born Autumn Thompson, she is the daughter of Jerry Thompson and Kelly Nelon Clark. After the divorce of her parents in 1998, Nelon Streetman grew up with her sister, her mother, and stepfather, Jason Clark. Her grandfather was Rex Nelon, a gospel singer.
Nelon Streetman began performing with her family's vocal band, The Nelons, in 2010 when she was 13 years old. It was at this time that she debuted her solo, I Choose To Live, from the group's album, Beside Still Water.{{Cite web |title=I Choose To Live |url=https://thenelons.com/home |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=thenelons.com}} She sings in the alto range and plays the mandolin. As a primary member of The Nelons, she is featured on all of the group's albums as a soloist and was as well as during their tours.{{Cite web |title=The Nelons – Gaither Music |url=https://gaither.com/artists/the-nelons/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=gaither.com}} Nelon Streetman was nominated for Best Musician in 2023 by the Absolutely Gospel Music Awards in 2023.{{Cite web |title=22nd Annual Absolutely Gospel Music Awards Nominees Announced |url=https://www.absolutelygospel.com/2023/01/31/22nd-annual-absolutely-gospel-music-awards-nominees-announced/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=Absolutely Gospel Music |language=en-US}}At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album for The Nelons album Loving You.[https://people.com/grammys-2025-autumn-nelon-streetman-talks-putting-out-album-after-tragedy-exclusive-8784618] She married singer Jamie Streetman in 2023. The couple have a son.{{Cite web |title=Jamie Streetman Joins The Perrys |url=https://www.absolutelygospel.com/2022/01/18/jamie-streetman-joins-the-perrys/ |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=Absolutely Gospel Music |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=May 17, 2023 |title=Autumn Nelon Announces Engagement |url=https://gospelmusic.org/news/autumn-nelon-announces-engagement |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=gospelmusic.org |language=en}} Alongside her family, she appeared on an episode of Family Feud in 2024.{{Citation |title=Episode #25.148 |date=2024-04-30 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32244094/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |series=Family Feud |others=Autumn Clark, Jason Clark, Kelly Nelon Clark}}
When Nelon Streetman's mother, stepfather, sister, and brother-in-law were killed in a private plane crash in July 2024, she was left as the sole survivor of her immediate family.{{Cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=2024-07-27 |title=Three Members of Gospel Group the Nelons Die in Plane Crash |url=https://variety.com/2024/music/news/nelons-dead-plane-crash-gospel-group-family-cruise-1236087197/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} The Nelons were scheduled to perform as a group with other southern gospel and Christian singers and musicians on a week-long Gaither Homecoming cruise to Alaska which originated in Seattle.{{Cite web |last=Whitman |first=Sara |date=2024-07-27 |title=The Nelons' Autumn Nelon Streetman mourns family after plane crash |url=https://pagesix.com/2024/07/27/entertainment/the-nelons-autumn-nelon-streetman-mourns-family-after-plane-crash/ |access-date=2024-08-14 |language=en-US}} She and her husband had arrived by commercial plane in Seattle on July 26, 2024, the same day of the plane crash (a Pilatus PC-12) which took the lives of her four family members, along with three others also on the aircraft. Nelon Streetman and her husband were told about the crash when they arrived at their hotel.{{Cite news |last=Lindner |first=Emmett |date=2024-07-27 |title=Three Members of the Nelons Gospel Group Are Killed in a Plane Crash |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/arts/music/nelons-plane-crash-wyoming.html |access-date=2024-08-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
In an interview with Woman's World, she said, “We (Autumn Nelon Streetman and her husband) chose to fly commercial because we were flying from here (Nashville) and I didn’t want to drive to Georgia to get on a plane.” In the same articles she talked about her uncle, Todd Nelon.
She says that he would track the flights the family was on. “We (Nelon Streetman and her family) were on that plane—the same plane that they were on—two weeks prior to this going to D.C. (Washington D.C. It was a short flight, maybe an hour and a half and he tracked us then. He’ll get on Flight Tracker where he can see where we are and how much longer we’ve got to go. He was doing the same thing that day. He said, ‘I was watching them and all of a sudden it just went away, and I couldn’t figure out why.’”{{cite web|url=https://womansworld.com/entertainment/autumn-nelon-streetman-of-the-nelons-shows-her-strength-after-the-tragic-plane-crash|title=Autumn Nelon Streetman of The Nelons Shows Her Strength in the Wake of Tragic Plane Crash...|author=Deborah Evans Price|date=August 29, 2024|access-date=June 6, 2025}}
I do want to take the time to say thank you all for the outpouring love you have sent my family,” Nelon Streetman wrote. “I don’t know how to even sing without my family standing by my side but If there’s one thing that I am sure of, is that God is still good, even in moments where I feel absolutely weak and not sure how to go on, He’s been faithful.“{{cite web|url= https://countrymusicfamily.com/gospel-singer-vows-to-keep-singing-following-plane-crash-that-killed-her-family|title=Gospel Singer Vows to Keep Singing Following Plane Crash That Killed Her Family|last=Aaron|first=Tiffany|date=July 29, 2024|access-date=June 6, 2025}} In Woman's World she said “This was not something that I would ever imagine that would happen, and I joke and say that they left the one here that was less likely to do any of this by myself. But now I ask God, ‘What do you want me to do? What is my purpose in life? What is your calling on my life now? I know what I’m called to do and that is to sing, but how do I do that now when my family is not here beside me?‘... I'm just waiting on Him.”
Discography
Albums (with The Nelons, a partial listing)
- 2014: Hymns: The A Capella Sessions (With The Nelons)
- 2016: Stronger Together EP (With The Nelons)
- 2016: Family Harmony (With The Nelons)
- 2016: A Nelon Family Christmas (With The Nelons)
- 2017: The Americana Sessions (With The Nelons)
- 2018: A Winter Carol (With The Nelons)
- 2020: Peace At Last (With The Nelons)
- 2022: We Need A Little Christmas (With The Nelons)
- 2023: Beautiful (With The Nelons)
- 2024: Loving You (With The Nelons)
- 2025: My Song (Solo)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|7179472|Autumn Nelon Streetman}}
- [https://thenelons.com/ The Nelons Official Website]
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Category:Southern gospel performers