Tegan Marie

Tegan Marie was born on October 25, 2003, in Grand Blanc, Michigan. She has a brother. She started displaying her passion for music even before she started talking. Her father posted her first video of singing Miley Cyrus’ ‘The Climb’ on SweetyHigh.com when she was three years old.

Gifted with a beautiful voice, Tegan Marie learned to sing with the help of her father’s karaoke machine. When she was seven, her videos on SweetyHigh.com were racking up millions of views. Till date, she has uploaded 813 videos, and has garnered over a million subscribers on SweetyHigh.com. She started her own YouTube channel on February 23, 2011, which has amassed 92k subscribers and 14 million views as of May 2018.

In December 2015, she sang an original Christmas song and recorded the music video, which she called ‘A Christmas Tree’. When she was 12, she released her debut single, ‘Lucky Me’. She had written several songs and had performed around the country even before she became a teen. She has performed at important venues like the Ryman Auditorium and the Opry City Stage in New York’s Times Square. She has also made several high-profile appearances in TV shows and events including ‘Good Morning America’ on ABC, ‘Smokey Robinson: The Gershwin Prize’ on PBS, and at the Radio Disney Music Awards in 2017.

In 2017, when she was only 13, she signed a contract with Warner Music Nashville, which made her the second youngest country artist after Tanya Tucker to sign a deal with a major label. Since then, she has been working on her debut album, writing songs and recording them with producers Scott Hendricks and Nathan Chapman. Her first single from the album, ‘Keep It Lit,’ written with Rune Westberg, Nelly Reeves, and Jason Reeves, was out in 2018.