There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.
I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.
I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.
I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
I lived for music since I could think.
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.