Nation star Drew Baldridge was “crying” after his tune “She’s Anyone’s Daughter” went viral — years after its authentic launch.
Drew, 32, “didn’t suppose a lot of it,” when he initially posted a video with the tune on TikTok in Might 2021.
“I feel I wrote on [the caption] if this will get 3,000 likes, I’ll put it out on Friday — figuring out it’s popping out Friday and simply hoping that 3,000 folks need to see it,” Drew advised Us Weekly solely at CMA Fest in Nashville on Thursday, June 6. “So, I submit it. … We get up Thursday morning [and] it has virtually 10 million views.”
Drew first dropped the tune in 2019 as one thing “particular” between him and his spouse, Katherine Baldridge (née Kraus). In Might 2021, Katherine “dances to it together with her dad” at their wedding ceremony and it turned successful that very same month. Greater than a yr after tying the knot, Drew determined to drop a “reimagined” model of the tune in December 2022, that includes footage from his wedding ceremony to Katherine.
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For the reason that tune turned successful due to TikTok, Drew anticipated to get calls from numerous labels, however he’s discovered success with “no supervisor, no reserving agent — it’s simply me,” the singer defined to Us.
He began enjoying in folks’s backyards earlier than transitioning to the pageant circuit in 2023.
“I’m going out and play my first truthful … I sing ‘She’s Anyone’s Daughter’ and everyone sings it again,” Drew recalled. “I take a look at my bass participant, who’s been with me for ten years, and I’m like, ‘Do you keep in mind folks singing?’ … This has by no means occurred.”
The one damaging a part of Drew’s in a single day success is “lacking loads” with 17-month-old son Lyric Lee.
“[It’s] actually laborious. We’re out touring and enjoying radio reveals, however my spouse’s a rockstar,” Drew continued. “Simply watching her be a mother. … [She] must be all the things — mother and pa — after I’m gone. I is likely to be gone three or 4 days per week and are available house and attempt to play catch up.”
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Drew praised his spouse, saying she’s been “so nice and so gracious” amid his whirlwind fame.
The singer additionally stated that changing into a father has “impressed” a few of his upcoming music.
“I need to make music my son’s happy with. In the future when he hears ‘She’s Anyone’s Daughter,’ I need him to suppose that’s how my dad treats my mother,” he stated. “That’s what I attempt to concentrate on writing now, is songs that my son could be happy with in the future.”
