KYGO Performance Studio

98.5 KYGO's latest Performance Studio artist is none other than Harper Grace, a 24-year-old Texas native, and she performed "Dear Heart" – the title track of her upcoming project – "Boys Will Be Boys" and "If Daddy Says No." Grace took the hometown-to-Nashville pipeline familiar to many artists who share her passion, and she's called Music City home for four years. Her passion for coun...

In 98.5 KYGO's Performance Studio, Tyler Nance performed "Shovel," "Midwest Memoir" (the title track of the 17-song album he released March 20) and "Keeps Me Sane." A rancher in the true sense of the word, Nance grew up farming and raising cattle in southwest Missouri. Once out of high school, he became a welder, but his ambitions changed once he grew to love music during his time on the road. It...

Kevin Powers performed "Move On," "Can't Help Myself" and "When He Made You" during his KYGO Performance Studio visit. Powers – Boston, Mass., born and Raleigh, N.C., raised – began releasing music in the hip-hop and R&B vein in 2019. It didn't take long for success to take hold, with his 2020 singles "Walked In" and "How You Been?" amassing 22 million and 15 million streams on Spo...

Spencer Hatcher, a 28-year-old Virginian, played unreleased "Love Button," "Cold Beer and Common Sense" and "When She Calls Me Cowboy" alongside younger brother Connor Hatcher in KYGO's Performance Studio. Hatcher was brought up in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where he was raised on bluegrass and the music of country greats like George Strait, George Jones, Buck Owens and Roy Clark. Bluegrass too...

Parmalee stopped in 98.5 KYGO's Performance Studio prior to their Halloween show at the Grizzly Rose and performed "Take My Name," "Cowgirl" and "Carolina." Parmalee, whose name is a nod to their roots in Parmele, North Carolina, is a family affair of sorts, made up of brothers Matt and Scott Thomas, their cousin Barry Knox and lifelong friend Josh McSwain. The Thomas brothers formed the group aft...

Dillon Carmichael performed "Keepin' Country Alive," the title track off of his newest album, "Son of A" and "She Gone" while in KYGO's Performance Studio. A 31-year-old from Burgin, Kentucky, Carmichael had the benefit of knowing what he wanted to do for a living from a young age, having grown up surrounded by a musical family. His mother is a singer, while his uncles – Eddie and John Micha...

Cleto Cordero, frontman of Flatland Cavalry, sang "Never Coming Back," "Unglued" and "Bird's Eye View" – all unreleased – in KYGO's Performance Studio. Flatland Cavalry's five members – Cordero, drummer Jason Albers, bassist Jonathan Saenz, guitarist Reid Dillon and Wesley Hall on the fiddle – started as two, Cordero and Albers, who formed the band in 2012 as roommates at M...

Bayker Blankenship, a 19-year-old from the small town of Livingston, Tenn., is on the fast track to stardom by way of going viral on TikTok. He swung by 98.5 KYGO’s Performance Studio to perform “Tennessee Sunset,” “Lost Time” and “Maxed Out.” Blankenship, with over 740,000 followers and 9.8 million likes on TikTok and over 2.2 million monthly listeners on...

Before opening for friend Sam Hunt at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Friday, Russell Dickerson made a pit stop at KYGO’s Performance Studio and, taking requests from the intimate audience, performed “Every Little Thing,” “Bones” and “Yours” — two of which have spent some time in the number one spot on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs and Co...

War Hippies, otherwise known as Scooter Brown and Donnie Reis, visited KYGO’s Performance Studio to perform “Killin’ It,” “Like Father Like Daughter” and “The Hangman.” Brown and Reis joined forces in 2022 due to their shared experience as both military and music veterans, hence the name of the group. Once both traded in their weapons for microphones...

Born and raised in western Kentucky, Kelsey Hart is now turning heads in Nashville and worldwide as the singer-songwriter behind the viral TikTok love song, “Life With You.” Influenced by artists such as Blake Shelton and Jake Owen, Hart’s powerhouse vocals and brilliant songwriting have him set up to be a country music star for years to come.

So far in his career, singer-songwriter Drew Parker is perhaps better known for the latter half of the designation, but is hot in his pursuit of making a name for himself as an artist and performer as well. The 32-year-old swung by and sang “Raised Up Right,” “Love the Leavin'” and “While You’re Gone” for KYGO’s Performance Studio. Parker, born in Co...

Fresh off the heels of attending the Academy of Country Music Awards, where he was nominated for the first time for New Male Artist of the Year, Kameron Marlowe stopped by KYGO’s Performance Studio to perform “Tennessee Don’t Mind,” “Strangers” and a Colorado favorite, “Girl on Fire.” The 26-year-old was born and raised in a suburb of Charlotte, Nort...

Some artists may use forgetting their guitar as an excuse to play hooky from a KYGO Performance Studio session, but some artists are not Matt Stell. As a solution, Stell simply plucked a guitar signed by Merle Haggard from the walls of the station. He paid homage to his guitar’s signer by starting out with an impromptu performance of Haggard’s 1968 release, “Mama Tried.” St...

“American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent” and most recently, KYGO’s Performance Studio — the path forged by singer-songwriter Drake Milligan, who, during the latter, performed “Over Drinkin’ Under Thinkin,'” Marty Robbins’ “Devil Woman” and “I Got A Problem.” The 26-year-old, born in Arlington, Texas, and raise...