{"id":32429,"date":"2025-05-27T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=32429"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:06:01","slug":"morgan-wallen-was-offered-a-gospel-recording-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/morgan-wallen-was-offered-a-gospel-recording-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Was Once Offered A Gospel Record Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Wallen recently got to play golf with Tom Brady in Tennessee, and Tom put the whole thing up on his YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>At one point Tom asked Morgan if he always loved music, and Morgan said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yeah, I started singing in church when I was three years old. My dad was a pastor, and my mom just recognized early on that I had a love for it. When I was five, I wanted a violin for Christmas, so I started learning it . . . [And] I was offered a southern gospel contract at seven years old. And my mom was like, &#8216;Nah, I want him to be a kid.&#8217; Thankfully.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Morgan&#8217;s career could have gone MUCH differently.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pq8Q8yAPu8Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Was Offered a Gospel Recording Contract at Seven Years Old, But His Mom Turned It Down","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4870,5091,5093,3845,759],"class_list":["post-32429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-golf","tag-gospel","tag-gospel-music","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-tom-brady"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 05:00:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/morgan-wallen-was-offered-a-gospel-recording-contract\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32433,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions\/32433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}