New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Sony/Columbia Nashville breakout artist Kameron Marlowe has shared his debut US country radio single "Sober as a Drunk," taken from his self-titled EP, out now. To celebrate, Marlowe released a live performance video of the "bar room heartbroken stomper" (MusicRow).
The track follows his breakthrough hit "Giving You Up," which has over 30 million streams on Spotify, and 17 million views for the official music video.
Marlowe has quickly made a name for himself as the next big thing in country music, named as an artist to watch in 2021 by Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify,
Sounds Like Nashville, Country Now, NY Country Swag,
Everything Nash, and many more. The buzzed-about singer/songwriter released his debut EP in 2020 to critical acclaim, with Billboard celebrating the "solid six-track collection" that "show[s] his promise as a songwriter" and Country Insider affirming the project "reveals a musical maturity and expertise beyond his 23 years." MusicRow declares "This kind of vocal conviction is what makes a star… I am more convinced than ever that this boy has what it takes."
They say Nashville is a 10-year town, but it only took Kameron Marlowe seven months to launch himself from struggling singer-songwriter and into the spotlight.
Marlowe found success with his independent debut release, "
Giving You Up" - a heartbreak anthem that has topped more than 30 million streams and counting. It's the first song Marlowe finished writing and it came with a personal price. The singer was 20 years old and planning to propose when his would-be fiancée dumped him for someone else. To get his feelings out, he picked up a pen.
"I had things I wanted to say," Marlowe said. "I started writing and over the course of several weeks, it turned into a song that means something to me and honestly, helped me through a hard time.
Born in the small town of Kannapolis, North Carolina, Kameron sold car parts at General Motors for a living before he got a call that changed his life forever. A recruiter from NBC's The Voice found performance videos of Marlowe on YouTube and reached out with an offer to take him straight to the series' live auditions. The offer was too good to pass up.
While he didn't win, Marlowe said "
The Voice" is responsible for getting him to Nashville. Some of his cast-mates were songwriters from
Music City. He had dabbled in songwriting at home, but the concept of doing it professionally was foreign. When his new friends explained the collaborative nature of Nashville's creative community, everything clicked into place.
"I knew that was just exactly where I wanted to be career-wise," Marlowe said. "But I just didn't understand how to do it."
After The Voice ended, he began to make the 13-hour round-trip drive to Nashville multiple times a week to write songs. He soon decided the drive was too much, found some roommates and moved to
Music City.
Influenced by artists ranging from
Brooks & Dunn and
George Strait to
Travis Tritt and Ray Charles, Marlowe's sound is a culmination of his life-long love of country music. His first memories include riding around in his grandpa's truck listening to
Garth Brooks and
Darius Rucker. But he didn't realise he could sing until he was a teenager. Marlowe played snare drum in his high school's marching band for two years before he decided the experience wasn't for him. A praise and worship leader who found joy in performing, Marlowe approached the music teacher about starting an unstructured class he dubbed "Rock Band." Ten students formed two five-piece bands. They learned 10-to-20 cover songs a year and then performed them in a small club.
Now his goals are much higher.
"I want to sell out a stadium just one time," Marlowe said. "It's always been a dream of mine. I never thought in a million years I could do this for a job. I thought I would move here for 10 years and then go back home and sell car parts, but it's happening!"
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