Luke Bryan is a famous country music star. Bryan has been singing since he was 14 and performing professionally for 22 years. Bryan started his career writing songs for popular artists such as Billy Currington. Bryan currently has 16 billion streams worldwide and has sold over 13 million albums. Bryan has won many awards throughout his career including, “six recognitions as a CMT Artist of the Year, seven CMT Music Awards, five Billboard Music Awards, and four American Music Awards. Bryan was also named Billboard‘s Top Country Artist of the 2010s.” Bryan has made a big name for himself. He has been a judge on American Idol since 2018.
Luke Bryan was born July 17, 1976, in Leesburg, Georgia. Bryan has two older siblings, a sister and a brother. Luke Bryan and his brother Chris Bryan started performing in nearby towns as teenagers. Bryan was 19 when he decided he was going to move to Nashville, Tennessee to further his music career. Shortly before making the move his brother was tragically killed in a car accident in November 1996. Bryan chose to go to a local college instead so he could stay close and grieve with his family. While attending Georgia Southern University, he met his future wife, Caroline Boyer. They dated through college and married in March of 2008. Bryan’s sister Kelly Cheshire unexpectedly passed away in 2007 of unreleased causes. Kelly’s husband Ben Lee Cheshire died of a heart attack in 2014, leaving their three children without parents. Bryan and his wife took in his sister’s three kids. “We never thought twice about it,” Caroline shared on Good Morning America in 2017. “You know, it was never something that he and I had to sit down and talk about. ‘Should we take this on?’ We just did that.” Bryan and his wife have two kids Thomas born in 2008 and Tatum born in 2010. Luke Bryan currently has a net worth of $160 Million. Luke Bryan has had many ups and downs in his life and his career but it is safe to say that he has made a big name for himself in the world of Country music.
