Luke Bryan

           

Hello fellow readers! I am back this week talking about the ever so gorgeous, Luke Bryan. Over the past few months, I have listened to his music a lot and I think he’s a great artist. I love his music, and at this very moment I am in love with his new song “I Don’t Want This Night To End.” Go take a listen while reading J. I heard it on my way to class one morning and have not stopped listening to it! I don’t want to say it describes me because it doesn’t, but it really made me think of some good times I’ve had with some great people. Now just like last week, I can’t promise I know very much about the singer, so we’ll learn together. Let get to it!

                He was born with the given name Thomas Luther Bryan, from Leesburg, Georgia on July 17, 1976. Leesburg is a very small town from what I’ve been told. I have only made it to Savannah a few years ago.  Luke liked the outdoors and played sports, while helping out his father with his peanut and fertilizer business. His parents seemed supportive of his music, they had bought him his own Alvarez guitar at age 14, and by 15 his father would take him to a nearby club called Skinner’s, where he’d play guitar and sing with the best of the locals.

By the time Bryan was 16 he led in his own band playing at Skinner’s and other community events, a major "thank you" to a couple of local songwriters that invited him to their writing sessions at the nearby church in town. He’d moved to Nashville after he’d received major support from the people who heard him play. This was a huge step in his life and on the day of the move, his older brother Chris who was one of his best friends, and biggest supporters, was killed in a car accident.

                After the accident he was completely dedicated to music. He found comfort and escape in writing his songs. Bryan had enrolled himself into Georgia Southern University, and his band would perform every weekend on campus or at nearby parties and clubs. Everyone had encouraged him to move to Tennessee but he refused. After he graduated he went back to working with his father in his agriculture business. After about a year of working with his dad, he had been forced to quit and move to Nashville. Within two months of moving, he was signed a publishing deal with a company by Roger Murrah.

                Luke Bryan received the title Academy of Country Music’s top new artist and top new solo vocalist in 2009. He received the USA Weekend breakthrough video of the year award in 2010 for “Do I.”