Meet Michael Warren, Black country singer, songwriter performing at CMA Fest, taking the genre by storm

Country musician Michael Warren told Fox News Digital he'd pass burned CDs out to only girls outside of Alabama bars, because if the girls would come, the guys would follow.

Country music stations are rocking to the brim with newly released songs by a blend of genre veterans and new artists, but few singers find themselves chart-topping and successful.

The music industry is cut-throat and not for the weak of heart.

Michael Warren, 41, a country music singer and songwriter from Hoover, Alabama, was discovered by many fans when he earned his spot at the top of a number of Spotify channels, and his story is unique in the way that this is his second go at the music industry.

"I feel like I got a second lease on life," Warren told Fox News Digital during a video interview.

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Michael Warren, country singer and songwriter from Hoover, Alabama, is performing at CMA Fest 2024 for the first time. (Lauren Abram's; Michael Warren)

When Warren was in college, he received the call of a lifetime from Grammy award-winning artist Toni Braxton. The "Un-Break My Heart" singer hoped to record some of Warren’s songs. However, backpedaling to where it all began, Warren recalls that his immersion into music began during his formative years, long before his opportunity with a former subsidiary of Atlantic Records, Atlantic Songs.

"I started music at a very, very young age," Warren recalls. "I instantly gravitated toward the writing."

The country music singer credits his dad, a former band member at the University of Notre Dame, for his passion for music. In their basement at any given time, Warren said he could find 800 records from megastars, from