The duo met at Belmont University in 2008 through a campus worship group, and following graduation, decided to give themselves two years to succeed as a country duo. The two had a myriad of musical interests growing up: "Me and my friends drove trucks, listened to Garth Brooks, Alabama, Lil Wayne and Eminem," said Kelley. Tyler Hubbard, a native of Monroe, Georgia, was a church worship leader who formed a hip hop group, Ingenious Circuit, in his teens. He began learning to play guitar then began writing music inspired by Christian rock group Casting Crowns. Brian Kelley, from Ormond Beach, Florida, was a star pitcher on his high school baseball team, leading to a scholarship at Florida State University he later transferred to Belmont University after it became clear to him he would not succeed in the sport. Their fifth album, Life Rolls On, was released on February 12, 2021.īoth members of Florida Georgia Line first gained interest in music through church worship services. Their third album, Dig Your Roots, was released on August 26, 2016, and the fourth Can't Say I Ain't Country on February 15, 2019. They released their second album, Anything Goes on October 14, 2014. Several months later they signed with Republic Nashville, part of the Big Machine Label Group. Their second EP, It'z Just What We Do, was released in 2012 and charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
In December 2011, they signed to the Big Loud Mountain label. įlorida Georgia Line was formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee, and began as a cover band. Much of their subsequent music has been tagged with the "bro-country" label as well. "Cruise" helped to pioneer a style of country music known as " bro-country", which incorporates production elements from rock and hip-hop music, and tends to cover subject matter such as partying, drinking, driving trucks and sexual attraction. Their 2012 debut single " Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was downloaded over seven million times, making it the first country song ever to receive the Diamond certification, and it became the best-selling digital country song, with 24 weeks at number one, until it was surpassed in July 2017 by Sam Hunt's " Body Like a Back Road".
Florida Georgia Line is an American country music duo founded in 2010 by Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida, both of whom are vocalists and songwriters.
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