It's no secret that talent runs in Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's family. Heck, between them and their daughter Audrey, we're gonna need them to save a little for the rest of us. The icons have been seen out and about in New York City, supporting Audrey's shows via social media. But now, it seems like they have another superstar in the making, their nephew, Timothy Wayne.
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Audrey has often expressed that having her parents around made her career feel like "a lot of pressure" to pursue. For Wayne, it's an equal struggle, since he wants to do country, the genre McGraw and Hill dominated for years. The 22-year-old singer talked about this in an interview with Fox News. For a long time, he felt like he couldn't do music, simply because his relatives were such legends.
"I have watched my uncle and aunt perform since I was a little kid, and I have watched them command crowds and command respect while still being extremely humble people and being nice to everybody around them," he shared. "Growing up watching that, they were two people that I really looked up to, but at the same time I was like, 'I can't do what they do.'"
Honestly, it's hard enough to pursue a career in the arts. But when you have that kind of example to look up to, we can imagine it would be challenging.
"I Started Having To Believe in Myself," Says Wayne
Timothy spoke about how, for a while, his family's talent kept him from doing the thing he loves. "Uncle Tim and Aunt Faith were really the reason why I had never gone into music before and never really thought about it," he admitted. "Not in a bad way, it's not like they were keeping me from doing it. They encouraged me to do a lot of stuff. But it was mainly just when you grow up watching giants like that on the stage, it's incredibly hard to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I can do that, too.'"
Despite his initial doubts about doing music, it seems like Wayne is off to a great start. In 2024, he signed a deal with Capitol Records, a division of Universal Music Group. Just this May, he also released his first single, followed by several others. Now, he's working on his debut album, with the help of McGraw and his long-time producer, Byron Gallimore.
Wayne shared with Fox that Tim and Faith were the ones who got him to start believing in his own ability. "I had just started getting into recording and [Tim] was showing [Faith] a song, and then I got a text from both of them like, 'You should really do this.' And we had that conversation, they believed in me, and they believed that I could do it," he revealed. Now, it's up to him to take that confidence to the next level. "I started, and then my mom and dad had always believed in me, and so I started having to believe in myself."
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