Luke Combs has become one of the biggest names in country music history. His grandfather knew he would be successful in music.
Luke has released 11 singles that have all reached number one. His latest chart topping single “Forever After All” is spending its fourth week at #1 on the Billboard chart this week. He has won awards from the CMAs, ACMs, CMTs, Billboard Music Awards and has had multiple Grammy nominations. He has sold more than five million albums in just four years. To say Luke has been successful would be an understatement. Before it all started Luke’s grandpa told him music was his “thing”…
“When I started doing this, I had been singing my whole life, so everybody in my family knew I enjoyed being in chorus class or whatever. I was always singing all the time, and when I picked the guitar up, I would go down and see my grandpa and he would always say, ‘This is the thing.’ And at the time, it’s just like, ‘Oh, you’re grandpa, he loves you … but he had this demeanor when he said it. He was like, ‘No, if you stick with this thing you’re gonna be really great at this, if you keep doing it’. I guess I always kind of thought that he was, you know, just saying grandpa things, you know what I mean? You’re not going to tell your grandkids that they’re going to be terrible at whatever they want to do. But when I look back on it, the seriousness that he said it with is something that stuck with me.”
Luke’s grandpa has passed away and did not get to see the huge success his grandson has achieved. However, he did get to witness the start of it all.
“He did get to hear my first album, which is something that I’m very thankful for. It hadn’t been released yet at the time he passed away, so he never got to see what came of that, but he did get to see the culmination of all the work I put into making it.”
Listen for the latest marker of the success Luke Combs’ grandfather predicted for this grandson titled “Forever After All” on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.
Did somebody in your family know you were going to do what you are doing now in life? Who was it?
By: Buck Stevens
