In an interview with “Esquire”, Luke Combs said he’s been singing ever since he could talk, but\u00a0as a kid, he wasn’t sure if he was actually good at it, or if his parents were just LYING to him.<\/p>\n
Turns out they actually played a pivotal role more than once.<\/p>\n
As an only child, he didn’t have any brutally honest siblings there to weigh in.<\/p>\n
He says his parents loved it when he sang, but quote, “everybody’s parents love when they do ANYTHING.”<\/p>\n
He eventually got into chorus in the sixth grade, and then school musicals.<\/p>\n
His choir performed at Carnegie Hall once, and he had a solo, but even after that, he didn’t have any plans to make it a career.<\/p>\n
He went to Appalachian State to get a business degree, then switched to criminal justice and wanted to be a homicide detective.<\/p>\n
But his parents stepped in again the summer after his junior year while he was working at a go-kart track.<\/p>\n
His mom reminded him he had a guitar in his closet that they bought him in 7th grade. So he picked it back up, learned to play, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n