LUKE LAIRD

Hailing from Hartstown, Pennsylvania with a population of 250 people, Laird has played music and written songs for as long as he can remember.  In 1997, he graduated high school and moved to Murfreesboro to attend Middle Tennessee State University to major in music business.  He signed his first publishing deal in 2002 and hasn’t looked back.

With 54 radio singles – 1 of which is currently climbing the charts (Megan Moroney’s “Am I Okay?”), 24 of which were Billboard #1 hits and 5 of which were in the Top 5 – 2 Billboard #1 singles as a producer, and more than 125 released cuts filling his catalog, he has solidified his place in Nashville’s songwriting community.  In 2014, Laird earned a Grammy and an Academy of Country Music award for Best Country Album for co-producing Kacey Musgraves’ debut album, Same Trailer Different Park.  In 2019, he fulfilled a lifelong dream of winning a Grammy for Country Song of the Year as a co-writer on Musgraves “Space Cowboy.”  He has been named BMI and the ACM Songwriter of the Year, and has several other honors from the NSAI, CMAs and ACMs.  

Laird co-founded music publishing and management company, Creative Nation, with his wife Beth in November 2011.  He has been a professional songwriter in Nashville for over 20 years and isn’t slowing down anytime soon.