Walker Hayes is a singer/songwriter originally from Mobile, AL. His smash hit “Fancy Like” topped every country music sales and streaming chart, spent more than six months at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart, hit the top five on Billboard’s Hot 100 Songs, hit No. 1 at country radio and gave Hayes his first Grammy® Award nomination as an artist for Best Country Song. The song was also featured in a nationwide Applebee’s commercial. That track, as well as follow-up singles “AA,” “Y’all Life,” and “U Gurl” have made Hayes one of the top selling and streamed artists in country music. 

Hayes’ special relationship with his fans has always been at the center of his music. His soul-bearing lyrics and honest portrayal of life with his high school sweetheart Laney and their six kids while staying sober, dealing with loss, and experiencing everything in between, has all but let his fans into his living room. This year will be no different, but with even more insight into the process the singer/songwriter goes through when writing a song. In a particularly fruitful creative season, Hayes will be taking new songs directly to his fans with fresh tracks posted and released every month. 

Hayes has performed his music, including the Double-Platinum RIAA certified hit “You Broke Up With Me,” to national audiences on Good Morning America, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and TODAY, and he was profiled for CBS Sunday Morning. The Alabama native also released a book in 2022 with his best friend Craig Allen Cooper, detailing his journey to finding Christ, called Glad You’re Here.

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