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Chance McKinney

Montana-born and raised, Chance McKinney delves into our relationships to work and how we perceive the act of making a living with his forthcoming collection of music. Across his music's steely landscape, he constructs what he dubs “industrialized country.” Chance submitted one of his songs, an evocative piano ballad titled “Be Real,” into CMT’s Music City Madness competition. The weeks whizzed by, and soon, he rose victorious, taking the title that December with more than one millions cast across the country. In the following years, he toured with and shared stages alongside Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Jake Owen, Alan Jackson, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Dwight Yoakam, Creedence Clearwater and Lynyrd Skynyrd, among others. With five EPs already under his belt, Chance got to show off his talents when his most recent EP 'I Squared' debuted in the Top 15 on the iTunes Country Album chart.

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