“I started singing country, not really thinking anything of it,” Brown says. It’s like a blend of all that stuff.’”īrown’s generation grew up shuffling through rock, rap, pop, country, and more on their iPods, so when he first heard Florida Georgia Line’s groovy 2012 hit “Cruise” and Sam Hunt’s beat-driven 2014 hit “Leave the Night On,” the confluence of sounds just made sense. Then when I got to high school, country started changing a little bit, and I was like, ‘OK, I kinda like this. Green Day was huge back then, and Chris Brown and Usher were just gettin’ hot. “In middle school, people listened to rock. “I never forced anybody to change the channel or anything like that,” Brown says. Along the way, the open-minded young man soaked up whatever music his friends were into. They moved a lot when Brown was young, bouncing back and forth between Georgia and the Chattanooga area. That’s what I always told myself.”īrown stands out in mainstream country music for another reason: He is multiracial, the son of a father who is black and Cherokee and a white mother who raised him in a house filled with “Sugarland and Shania Twain and Tim McGraw,” he says. “I always thought I was gonna be an athlete, but I was striving to be on a platform where a lot of people were gonna know me.
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“I wanted to be something,” he says in his canyon-deep drawl. He was the third country singer to reach that milestone in 2018, after Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean.Ī few days later, the New York Times declared that Brown had “arrived as a country star.” And while he couldn’t have predicted he’d find stardom through music, Brown acknowledges that he’s always had big plans. And in November, Brown released his sophomore album, Experiment, which topped not only the Top Country Albums chart but also the all-genre Billboard 200. 1 hit single with “What Ifs,” a bracing duet with “American Idol” runner-up Lauren Alaina, his old grade-school friend from Fort Oglethorpe.
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In 2016, the 25-year-old northwest Georgia native came, more or less, from out of nowhere to top Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with his self-titled debut. These days, Brown has plenty on his schedule. I just worked little part-time jobs and played a lot of Xbox.” “But I never kept up with the date before anyway because I didn’t really have a lot of work.
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“I’m locked-in most of the time, but I never know what day it is or where I’m at,” he says via telephone from somewhere in Ohio. Kane Brown ’s life has become a whirlwind over the past few years, but that hasn’t changed his general outlook on day-to-day life.