Artist:Walker Hayes
Song:Fancy Like
Album:Country Stuff the Album
It took three tries but Walker Hayes finally scored a big country hit and even crossed over to pop with the 2021 single Fancy Like. And he owes it all to Tik Tok. He was born Dec. 27, 1979 in Mobile, AL. Hayes graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in music. Hayes and his wife moved to Nashville in 2005 looking to make it in country music. He signed a publishing deal. A demo he recorded for Keith Urban got him a record deal. It looks like Mercury and Capitol fought over him but Hayes recorded for Capitol. He released the 2011 album Reason to Rhyme. The singles Pants and Why Wait for Summer charted but not high enough for Hayes to keep his record deal. In 2016, Hayes signed with producer Shane McAnally's label SMACK/Rare Spark. After a couple of EPs, McAnally and partner Jason Owen signed a deal with Sony to revive Monument Records. The single You Broke Up with Me from the 2017 album boom was a top ten country hit. So finally Hayes is getting somewhere. After the 2021 EP Country Stuff was released, the single Fancy Like not only topped the country charts but reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. This was after Hayes did a series of Tik Tok videos of his kids dancing for fun. The Tik Tok for Fancy Free went viral. Hayes wrote and produced the song with McAnally. Hayes' music will remind you of Florida Georgia Line. He released the single Y'all Life in 2022 so he may have a new album coming soon. Here's the video for Fancy Like by Walker Hayes.
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