By Matt’s career. That’s the motivation, and honestly it always has been.”Stell is now wrapping up his tour with Chris Young, and Add your comment below. In 2007, Teale was awarded the prestigious Royal Television Society Award (Nations and Regions) "Sports Presenter of the Year". “Getting to do radio shows and travel the country because people want to hear a song that I wrote and sing — it’s just absolutely a dream come true.”But as much as Stell has welcomed his career leap, the changes in his life have arrived at a furious pace, most obviously in terms of time commitments.
When Matt Stell stepped into the Grand Ole Opry’s famed wooden circle for the first time on April 27, about 150 family and friends from his hometown in Conway County, Arkansas, were in … Stell wanted to try his luck on the country music scene, but years of effort yielded few results. It's a really convenient way to meet the folks that have a lot to do with …
Matt Stell was always surrounded by music, whether it was listening to mid-'90s albums he purchased himself -- like Alanis Morissette’s “I don't remember at that time thinking I would do [music] really, but music just makes me feel a way that nothing else does,” he tells Stell’s mom bought him a guitar for Christmas when he was 12, and he laughs as he admits he played it that morning and then “promptly put it in a closet.” Years later while playing basketball at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, he was on the deserted campus for winter break and asked his mom to bring him the guitar.“I got it and then sat in front of my computer, and I started trying to learn how to play old country songs and blues songs and bluegrass tunes, and all the things you can play on an acoustic guitar,” he recalls with a smile.The Arkansas native eventually relocated to Nashville -- where he has lived for nearly six years and signed a record deal with Barry Weiss’ RECORDS/Arista Nashville, following some time in Texas where he was writing with local acts. Since the single was released to radio last December, he’s spent weeks at a time on the road to promote his music on radio and to perform. I think that was the first show that I ever had playing out live at a writers round type of thing playing original music.
She was running a little behind and she called and said, “Hey, I'm behind, but I got this title.” She had just met who's now her husband that week and she had this title, “More than I can fathom, didn't know you from Adam, but I prayed for you.” We started writing it backwards from there and tried to infuse it with our own experiences and wrote a song about a character that's a lot like me that’s way luckier than he deserves. “It’s the idea that if you hang around long enough and fight the good fight long enough and persist, you get at least a chance for good things to happen.”Stell put “Prayed for You” on an EP that he released through his publishing company. Early life. I was having to do other things to make money besides music so there's a lot of truth in that song.“Reason Why” is a song that sonically and vibe-wise, if left to my own devices, I like big, dark sounding songs that almost sound like arena rock but with country instrumentation: Arenacana I like to call it. “It’s the opposite, you know. He had sung in bars for years and a few songs he’d written topped the Texas music charts for other singers. That was followed by a bunch of songs that I do not play.I was always big into the singer-songwriter thing, especially when I stumbled across singer-songwriters that were writing about things that I could relate to. But the "Prayed for You" singer has paid a price for his long weeks on the road as his engagement comes to an end. He spent several years honing his songwriting and performing skills before taking the Nashville plunge in 2014, intent “to sign a publishing deal to write songs and make little weird records of my own. However, the couple separated in 2017 because Matt had alleged extramarital …
I love a lot of rap music. They together have two sons named Jack Matthew and Thijs Lauer and a daughter named Romy Lauer. His song "Prayed for You" and his EP Everywhere but On were released in 2019. Matt also appears on the British Forces Broadcasting Service and is one of the main anchors on their new service, Forces TV, which began broadcasting in June 2014.