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Alana Springsteen A force-of-nature talent with the
passion to match, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alana
Springsteen is already an expert at crafting the kind of songs
that imprint on your heart forever. After learning to play guitar
at the young age of seven, the Virginia Beach native began
penning her own songs at nine, and soon started trekking
to Nashville to co-write with industry heavyweights. In the
tradition of powerhouse female Country stars, she grew up
Live At The Abacoa on, Springsteen instills her music with an irresistible mix of

Amphitheater! November charisma, confidence, and warm yet fearless honesty.

Now on the precipice of
15, 2024, By Deuterman Tyler Hubbard receives gold certification plaque from the releasing her debut album,
TWENTY SOMETHING,
Universal Music Canada team. Photo by Evan Mattingly
Productions as a newly signed artist to
2023 and has amassed more than one billion streams to date. Columbia Records NY/Sony
Tyler Reed Hubbard, an American singer-songwriter It features Hubbard’s hit debut solo single 5 Foot 9, which hit Music Nashville, the 22-year-
musician, was born January 31, 1987. Dirt bikes, all seasonal No. 1 on Country Radio, was certified two times platinum by old reveals her rare ability to
sports, church (including leading worship service), guitar and the RIAA and has 548 million global streams. It also features express complex emotions with
making hip-hop/rap beats were his jam before jammin’ as a Hubbard’s second No. 1 single, Dancin’ In The Country, impossible ease. Rolling out
member of the Nashville-based duo Florida Georgia Line. which already has more than 380 million global streams, has the anticipated collection in
Hubbard met Brian Kelley, from Ormond Beach, Fla., been certified platinum by the RIAA and marked his second three parts, she explains, “Our
at Nashville’s Belmont No. 1 on Country Radio. Recently, this self-titled album also twenties, they can be confusing,
University in 2007 became gold-certified in Canada and the same two hits Dancin’ exhilarating, humbling, and
during a campus worship in the Country/5 Foot unforgettable. We’ll mess things
group. Becoming 9 reached No. 1 on up, over and over again. We’ll learn, do better, and start figuring
instant friends with their Canadian country radio. things out – the world around us and ourselves. And if we’re
musical interests, they Hubbard has made lucky … and we do the work … and we love hard, once in a
began writing songs and several television while, we get these glimpses of what it feels like to get it right.
playing guitar together. appearances as a solo TWENTY SOMETHING, that’s the title of my debut album
As a decision was made artist, most recently at and it’s about all of it.”
in 2010 to pursue music NBC’s TODAY Show, An incredibly detail-oriented musician who unfailingly
as a career, the two and also on the CMT holds her own with studio veterans, Springsteen first cultivated
branded themselves Florida Georgia Line recording and Music Awards, Good her laid-back self-assurance as a little girl. “Both my granddads
distributing their first EP, “Anything Like Me.” Nickelback Morning America and are pastors, so on Sunday mornings they’d have me get up
producer Joey Moi discovered them at a county fair and they The Tonight Show in church and sing a solo,” she recalls. When her maternal
began writing and polishing songs for two years releasing Starring Jimmy Fallon. grandfather unearthed a dusty old classical guitar from the
their second EP “Cruise” and their first satellite hit, Itz Just Hubbard’s new radio single Back Then Right Now is out now, garage, she felt overcome with the urge to play. “The guitar
what We Do, in 2012. The interest of major labels was piqued and it is the first of Hubbard’s album “Strong,” which is due was twice my size and I ended up with so many blisters on
when their debut single Cruise, first hit satellite radio channel April 12 via EMI Nashville. The Georgia native is set to my fingers, but I never even thought of giving up,” she says.
The Highway and sold well on iTunes eventually led to a headline CMC Rocks in Australia this spring, and he’ll support “It’s like I had an instant emotional connection with the guitar,
deal with Republic Nashville and the Big Machine Label Kane Brown on his In The Air Tour throughout early 2024. where every time I picked it up, I felt better.”
Group. “Here’s to Good Times,” their first studio album,
was released in December 2012 with Republic Nashville,
becoming sixth best-selling album in 2013. Cruise, also on
the album, became No. 1 on Country Airplay, December 15,
2012 and is the best-selling country digital song of all time.
This album also rolled out singles Get Your Shine On, Round
Here, Stay, and This is How we Roll.
Hubbard took a break after sustaining a dirt bike related
back injury in February of 2014. The Florida-Georgia Line duo
introduced a second album “Anything Goes” by October 2014.
In 2015, Hubbard
and Kelley started their
own artist development
and music publishing
company called Tree
Vibez Music and
released three more
albums; “Dig your
Roots” 2016, “Can’t
Dancin’ In The Country (demo) Say I Ain’t Country”
2019, and “Life Rolls
On” in 2021. As of 2021, both Hubbard and Kelley have
pursued solo careers.
Hubbard has 21 No. 1 singles on country radio, countless
awards, and sold-out tours, Tyler Hubbard has already had a
remarkable career as a songwriter and as one half of multi-
platinum duo Florida Georgia Line. Hubbard’s debut solo
album, aptly titled “Tyler Hubbard,” was released in January