kane brown

Kane Brown is an astoundingly talented, multi-award-winning American country singer who first established himself through social media and is now signed to RCA Records. Among his biggest hits to date are ‘What Ifs’, ‘Heaven’, and ‘Good As You’, all of which topped the US Country Airplay Chart, made the Billboard charts, and won awards. His 2021 duet with Chris Brown, ‘Famous Friends’, achieved the same feats. His two albums to date, 2016’s eponymous debut and 2018’s Experiment, both topped the Country Charts; the latter also topped the US Billboard Charts. His songs have been streamed on the likes of YouTube and Spotify well over a billion times — not bad for a boy from Chattanooga who started out posting Facebook videos of himself singing his favourite songs.

Brown was born in 1993 and has biracial heritage: his mother is white, his father a part-Cherokee African-American. However, it was his mother and grandmother who raised him in various towns around Tennessee. Music was one constant in his life and after a brief flirtation with R’n’B, he began performing country songs when he was 11 years old. He later attempted to audition for X Factor and American Idol, but left the latter after they tried to get him to join a boyband.

Determined to forge his own path, Brown took to social media and had soon built an audience. By 2015, his videos were going viral and he has over a million Facebook fans. After crowdfunding his initial EPs, he signed to RCA Nashville in 2016. Major tours, bestselling albums, and a reputation as one of country music’s brightest stars beckoned.