Courtesy of Lyric Ridge Records
The road to success was long and arduous for Drew Baldridge.
Drew is from Patoka, Illinois and moved to Nashville 13 years ago to pursue his country music dreams. He recently landed his first number one hit with “She’s someone’s daughter.”
Drew wrote this emotional ballad six years ago and kept it all this time because he knew it was special.
“My wife and I have been married for three years and it’s been a real whirlwind to have this song played on the radio. The journey of ‘She’s Somebody’s Daughter’ has been pretty wild over the last year,” Drew tells ABC Audio. “It’s a song I wrote for her and her dad before we were even married, so six years ago, which is crazy. And now it’s taken on a whole new life. I can’t believe it.”
The tender, life-inspired ode has since taken on a life of its own and has resonated with many country fans, including the seemingly tough and stoic dads.
“It was like a message to myself. Like, ‘Don’t break it. Always remember these words.’ And that’s how it came to me when I wrote it,” Drew recalls. “It was really, really great to see how much it meant to so many different people. I just thought that I was about to marry a girl, like, ‘Remember, she’s somebody’s daughter. Never break her heart. Treat her right.'”
“Now it’s so crazy to see big cowboys and so many other big dads coming up to me in the meet-and-greet lines… (with) tears in their eyes and just saying, ‘Man, that’s one of my favorite songs. But no, don’t tell my wife I’m crying like that,'” he says, laughing.
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