Stephanie Urbina Jones made a promise stick. When Vince Gill first heard her Honky Tonk Mariachi sound at Nashville’s 3rd & Lindsley more than a decade ago, he told her he’d be honored to sing with her on a future recording. That moment arrives on “Falling Fearlessly,” out now, with the official music video premiering alongside it.
The song comes from Urbina Jones’ album ‘Manuel’s Destiny’ and was co-written with Peggy Lynn Marchetti, daughter of country legend Loretta Lynn. The two writers found the song during a late-night writing retreat in Mexico, working under a full moon beside the Caribbean Sea. They came back to Nashville knowing they’d captured something that wouldn’t let go.
Gill’s background vocals add a warm emotional layer to a track already built around surrender and courage. It’s a love song that asks something of the listener, not just to feel the sentiment, but to recognize what it takes to follow it. “The heart has no borders,” Urbina Jones says. “It loves who it loves. When it calls you, follow it, it always knows the way.”
The official music video was filmed in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico by Cinnetica Films. Centered on a love story between a Hispanic man and a white woman, reflecting Urbina Jones’ own family heritage, the visual brings in dancers Hannah McCarthy and Arturo Jimenez Cano from Nashville and Mexico. The result is what Urbina Jones calls a “theater of love,” a cross-cultural story told with passion and without apology.
Urbina Jones is a No. 1 Texas Country Radio Artist and No. 1 Billboard Country Songwriter who made history as the first artist to perform with a mariachi ensemble on the Grand Ole Opry stage. She’s shared stages with Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, and The Time Jumpers, and has toured internationally throughout her career. Her Honky Tonk Mariachi sound draws from classic country, Americana, and mariachi traditions, rooted in her San Antonio and Nashville background and shaped by her deep admiration for Linda Ronstadt’s fearless movement across genres.