The famous singer and songwriter, Morgan Wallen, released a new song and music video a few hours ago.
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- His full name is Morgan Cole Wallen.
- He was born on May 13th, 1993.
- His zodiac sign is Taurus.
- was born in Sneedville, Tennessee
- His father was a Baptist pastor.
- This is what led him as a child to attend piano and violin lessons.
- He was offered a scholarship to play baseball in college.
- After an injury, he chose to pursue music instead.
- He is an American country music singer and songwriter.
- He is signed to Big Loud Records.
- He has released five singles: “The Way I Talk”, “Up Down”, which features Florida Georgia Line, “Whiskey Glasses”, “Chasin’ You”, and “More Than My Hometown”.
- In 2014, Wallen competed on the 6th season of “The Voice”.
- He was initially part of Usher’s team.
- He later moved to Adam Levine’s team.
- He was eliminated during the Playoffs.
- During Wallen’s stint on The Voice, he began working with Sergio Sanchez of Atom Smash.
- He was the one who introduced him to Bill Ray and Paul Trust of Panacea Records.
- In 2015, Wallen signed to Panacea records and recorded a catalogue of songs that resulted in the five song EP Stand Alone.
- During these recording sessions, Wallen met Dominic Frost (guitar), Mark “Taco” Annino (drums), and Luke “Cowboy” Rice (bass) who became part of his touring band.
- Stand Alone was released on August 24th, 2015 with “Spin You Around” being Wallen’s debut single under Panacea Records.
- Also during 2015, Wallen began working with Dirk Hemsath of Hard 8 Working Group Management who later got Wallen into contact with Big Loud Records
- On April 27, 2018, Wallen released his debut album, If I Know Me.
- The second single from the album, “Up Down”, was recorded with Florida Georgia Line.
- According to Wallen, he and Florida Georgia Line got together as they knew each other.
- When FGL heard the single, they became interested in a collaboration.
- The album’s third single “Whiskey Glasses” released to country radio on July 30, 2018.
- It reached at number one on the Country Airplay in June 2019.
- Wallen joined Florida Georgia Line on their Can’t Say I Ain’t Country Tour in 2019
- Wallen also made a short appearance on the December 3, 2018 episode of WWE Raw.
- “Whiskey Glasses” went on to become the year-end number one song on country radio for 2019.
- Wallen released “Chasin’ You” to country radio as the fourth single from If I Know Me in July 2019.
- On May 27 2020 Wallen released “More Than My Hometown” to country radio as the lead single to his upcoming second studio album due in 2020.
- During the same month he as arrested outside Kid Rock’s bar in downtown Nashville for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
- Wallen apologized stating he and his friends “didn’t mean any harm”.
- On July 10, 2020 Wallen welcomed a son named Indigo “Indie” Wilder.
- Despite that he is… single!
- His son’s mother is Katie Smith, and they were once engaged.
- On August 14 2020 he released a single named “7 summers”.
- Wallen attended Gibbs High School in Tennessee, the same high school as Kenny Chesney!
- According to Wallen from all of his songs he is more identified with the “The Way I Talk”.
- He has mentioned that if he had to choose to become one dinosaur, he’d choose… Rex.
- Why? “Because that’s the meanest one — the dominator!”, Wallen said.
- According to him, when he was younger he enjoyed playing sports A LOT. He played basketball, baseball, football – any kind of ball
- During the tour with Florida Georgia Line, he played with the members of the band basketball, and he won!
- “I think the most important thing is to be yourself, 100 percent — to be transparent,”, Wallen said to an interview after completing a tour with a famous music band.
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