16 Facts About Cole Swindell

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Colden Rainey Swindell was born on June 30,1983 and is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Cole Swindell has written singles for Craig Campbell, Thomas Rhett, Scotty McCreery, and Luke Bryan, and has released four albums for Warner Bros.

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Cole Swindell was born on June 30,1983 to William Keith Cole Swindell and Betty Carol Rainey.

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Cole Swindell's father died on September 2,2013, at 65.

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Cole Swindell grew up in Dawson, Georgia, and has two brothers and a stepbrother.

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Cole Swindell attended Georgia Southern University, where he majored in marketing.

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Cole Swindell met Luke Bryan, who attended the same university some years earlier and was a fellow Sigma Chi member, at the fraternity house when Bryan came back to Statesboro to do a show.

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In 2013, Cole Swindell's independently released debut single "Chillin' It", buoyed by heavy airplay on SiriusXM satellite radio channel "The Highway", became a hit and Cole Swindell signed a record deal with Warner Music Nashville.

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Cole Swindell released his self-titled debut album on February 18,2014.

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The album's second single is "Hope You Get Lonely Tonight", which Cole Swindell co-wrote with both members of Florida Georgia Line.

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On November 17,2014, Cole Swindell released a five-song digital EP, The Down Home Sessions.

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Cole Swindell won the ACM New Artist of the Year Award in April 2015.

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The video shows images of Cole Swindell's rising popularity while clearly conveying that he wanted to be able to see his father and share this fame experience with him.

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Cole Swindell released "Break Up in the End", the lead single from his third album, on February 23,2018.

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Cole Swindell released his fourth album Stereotype on April 8,2022.

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Cole Swindell followed the album up with its third single, "She Had Me at Heads Carolina", a remake of Jo Dee Messina's 1996 single "Heads Carolina, Tails California".