About us

Austin and Mat Pritchett, founders of Heritage Music, are two brothers born and raised in Columbus, GA with a God-sized mission of reaching a hurting and broken world with the hope of Jesus Christ. 

But their story did not always start off this way. Austin and Mat did not initially grow up in a family where they knew about God. Ironically, their family lived in the Bible Belt, yet they had no idea about Jesus. Until there was a church with a mission to seek and save the lost, the Gospel missed them. Through this church, God radically encountered their mom and stepdad and everything began to change for their family. They came from a life of brokenness, but God had begun to write a brand new story. Austin and Mat began to watch their parents transform before their eyes as they surrendered to Jesus. Because of this, they saw very real people journey with a very real God. 

As they were growing up, they both individually developed a love for music. For Austin, it started when his father gifted him a cheap, used acoustic guitar. This became the place where he would begin to pour out his heart and eventually encounter God himself. He quickly fell in love with music and spent most of his free time learning to play. As he was growing up, his high school years were a rough time. Because of this, his parents encouraged him to serve in the church’s high school worship team. Here he was surrounded by people who showed him the love of Jesus. Through this worship team, God would encounter Austin personally and he surrendered his life to Jesus. For Mat, he began playing at 14 years old. Initially, he started playing to connect with Austin and share this with him. From this, he also fell in love with music. When Austin graduated high school, he enlisted in the military and gave Mat his piano. During Mat’s high school years, he began to serve on their church’s worship team and learned to play multiple instruments. But off the stage, Mat found that this was a way for him to fully express his heart and connect with God. 

After high school, Mat decided to pursue music full-time and attended school at Hillsong in Australia. Shortly after, Austin left the military and enrolled at Liberty University to pursue a degree in Commercial Music Production. After their education and spending time growing in their craft, the two brothers dreamed of writing and producing music together. From this, Heritage Music was born. Austin and Mat’s heart behind everything they do is that it won’t even be about them, but that the music they write and produce would point a hurting and broken world to Jesus.