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Luke Combs Says He Wouldn’t Be Where He Is Today Without His Wife Nicole: “There’s 10 Hit Songs I Wouldn’t Have Written Without Her”
They were a perfect match. Luke Combs met his wife, Nicole Hocking, in 2016 at a songwriters festival in Florida, and at the time, she was working at the event for BMI (a company that oversees all the rights and publishing for songwriters and artists), and they were both single at the time.
He previously said he was wearing camo gym shorts from Walmart and the “oldest t-shirt” he owned, but they started hanging out while on that trip, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Since then, they’ve welcomed three little boys and live outside of Nashville as Luke continues to put out music, tour and maintain his status as one of country music’s biggest superstars.
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Actually, at the time Luke and Nicole met, Luke has said before that he was still driving his high school car at the time, and had barely even gotten started in “making it” in any was in the music industry.
They got married in August of 2020 in Florida, and of course, Luke wrote his hit “Beautiful Crazy” about Nicole, which he wrote before they were even officially dating… which would probably be weird for anyone else other than Luke Combs, but obviously, it worked.
And in an interview with Jay Shetty ahead of the release of his sixth studio album The Way I Am, which is set for release on March 30th, and Jay asked about how Luke and Nicole met, and Luke had a beautiful answer about his wife.
He recalled Nicole having no reason to “think [he] was cool” when they met, and how much she had going for her with two jobs and killing it at what she was doing. But he eventually won her over, and Luke says he would not be where he is today without her, adding that, strictly from a career standpoint, she inspired so many of his hit songs that he would have never written without her.
Luke called her a “huge positive light” in his life, adding that “she’s one of the biggest reasons for [his] success”:
“She didn’t have any reason to think I was cool, at all. I was wearing a T-shirt and gym shorts when I ran into her, and she was working two jobs and making a killing and I’ve got, like, nothing going on at all. She just thought I was cool for whatever reason, so I thought that was pretty awesome.
It worked out, man, it was great. She’s been there with me since the beginning and seen me through a lot, and we made it through the whole rise together and all the craziness together, and she’s the best. I mean, I wouldn’t be here without her. There’s ten hit songs that I wouldn’t have written, because I wouldn’t have written them without her.
I’m very, very thankful for her. She’s a great mom, and she’s a great wife, and a great friend. She’s just a great person. So I’m very blessed to have that connection with her, man, that’s been a huge, huge positive light in my life. She’s one of the biggest reasons for my success, certainly.”
They seem like a really sweet and down-to-earth couple, and I’m sure the love only continues to grow as they just welcomed little Chet Wiley Combs into their family.
And it sounds like they’re both the lucky ones in the relationship, which is usually a recipe for success, and they’ll definitely have their hands full now with three boys and Luke gearing up for a huge tour in support of this new album.
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He most recently released his newest love song inspired by Nicole called “Be By You,” which will be included on his new album:
The Way I Am Tracklist
“Back in the Saddle”
“My Kinda Saturday Night”
“Days Like These”
“15 Minutes”
“Alcohol of Fame”
“Daytona 499”
“The Way I Am”
“Wish Upon Whiskey”
“Soon As I Get Home”
“Rethink Some Things”
“Giving Her Away”
“Seeing Someone”
“Sleepless in a Hotel Room”
“I Ain’t No Cowboy”
“Ever Mine” (feat. Alison Krauss)
“Can’t Tell Me I’m Wrong”
“Miss You Here”
“Tell ‘Em About Tonight”
“Be By You”
“The Me Part of You”
“Rich Man”
“A Man Was Born”
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