“My parents noticed I could sing. It was just something that came natural to me.” Remembers 23-year-old country artist Adam Gregory, “I grew up in listening to Vince Gill. He was a guy I really looked up to and he probably had something to do with my wanting to be a singer. My parents asked, ‘Do you want to take this serious?’ When I said ‘yeah’, that’s when they enrolled me in vocal and guitar lessons. I was eight years old.”

Those vocal lessons paid off quickly and Adam signed his first record deal with Sony Music Canada when he was just thirteen years old. “It was a five-song demo CD that actually got in the hands of the president at Sony Music. There was one track especially, the last track, called ‘Rebecca Lynn’ a cover that I did of a Brian White song. I guess I had a certain feeling in my voice and he was really digging it. Two weeks after he received it, he called my folks and said that he’d like to meet me in person. He flew my parents and me down to Toronto. We’d come to make about three or four hundred trips back and forth over the next two years. They gave me a song to learn that actually made it onto my first record called ‘The Ring’. I had a night to learn it. They gave me the song and I took it back to the hotel. Their whole plan was to see how fast I learned songs and how I could adjust to being in the studio. They brought me in the next day and I cut this track. I guess they were sold.”

After a successful career in Canada, releasing two records The Way I'm Made and Workin' On It, with Sony Music Canada Adam now has set his sights on conquering the United States, having moved to Nashville three years ago. “I sold a couple of platinum albums, built a fan base, toured the roads in Canada for five or six years. The cool thing is, I managed to keep my original band so they are all down here in the states with me. I believed in keeping that connection. I didn’t want to trade them in or have a different band, so I fought for them and they are down here with me now. I knew it wouldn’t have been the same with another band.”

“I’m on a whirlwind radio tour right now; it’s a really cool experience.” Adam says of promoting his single ‘What It Takes’ the follow up to his song ‘Crazy Days.’ “I haven’t been able to see the US before now. Being able to see the states, whether it’s for a short time or an extended visit is a really neat opportunity. I call my parents every night letting them know where I am and they’re like, ‘Well, you were just here the other night, and now you’re here.’ Our routing was pretty insane last year; we were in one place and then backtracked and went to the other place again and then backtracked again so it had us all over the place. The countryside we got to see was pretty impressive.”

“I’ve been fortunate enough to play the Grand Ole Opry three times, unfortunately they haven’t been the televised ones, but still the opportunity itself is just incredible. It’s a milestone in my career.”

A fan of bike riding, driving his truck just to clear his head, and building model cars, Adam says, “I’m just myself. My personality is off the wall. I’m pretty laid back and calm. I stand up for what I believe in, I fight for what I believe in. There’s nothing more to it, really. ”

“I really started doing more and more writing the last few years. I co-wrote nine or ten tracks that are going to be on my upcoming album. I try to write things that relate to me. I’ve never been one that wanted to be compared to anybody. I’ve always tried to be unique and write songs that touch me at the same time.”

“Music is something I need. I’ve been on breaks before and, if I’m not singing, I become depressed a little bit. It really soothes my soul as an avenue where I can open up and just really become myself. I always like to sing, I always like to play guitar. I just try to be a witness through my music, my actions and who I am as a human being.”

written by Krystina Rene'