"The GRAMMY Museum welcomed Nate Smith to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening including a conversation about his career, creative process, and more with a performance to follow.

Featuring a mix of gritty backwoods soul, rock ‘n’ roll swagger and velvet-thunder vocals, Nate Smith’s personal journey inspired him to be a beacon of country-music hope, an inspirational mission he puts front-and-center. A California native, former worship leader, and lifelong music lover, Smith approaches that mission with a background as eclectic as it gets. Learning guitar at 13, Garth Brooks, Elvis Presley and Bob Seger were among those informing his powerful, fire-from-within vocals, while Michael Jackson made him crave the spotlight and Nirvana gave his sound a jagged edge. In 2018, Smith lost everything he owned in the devastating Camp Fire which tore through Paradise, California, now known as the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history. Although his family was safe, he struggled to cope and turned back to music, hoping that it would help comfort himself and others. Help it did, inspiring a month-long road trip across the U.S. to Music City, writing music and playing dive bars along the way.

Since making it to Nashville, the singer’s “powerhouse tenor” has become “perhaps country music’s fastest-rising beloved voice” (The Tennessean). He’s made a huge splash with songs such as his Platinum-certified multi-week No. 1 hit “Whiskey On You,” which was lauded as the “breakup song of the summer” by Country Now and “an enormously satisfying country kiss-off anthem” by Stereogum. The smash hit has racked up over 430 million total global on-demand streams to date, contributing to Nate’s billion+ total career streams globally. Nate released his debut, self-titled album on April 28, 2024. The hefty 26-song project hit #6 on Billboard’s Country album charts and #30 on the Billboard Top 200. His single off the album, “World On Fire,” reached No. 1 on the country radio charts in December and remained at the top of the charts for six weeks in a row. The CMT Awards and ACM Awards nominee spent the summer/fall of 2023 touring alongside Thomas Rhett and Cole Swindell. Nate is managed by Kevin “Chief” Zaruk and Simon Tikhman with The Core Entertainment."