Although eight singers recently received Grammy nominations for best new artist, few of them likely feel they're actually new to the music industry.
Carpenter — who had her initial breakthrough starring in "Girl Meets World" on the Disney Channel — had five albums under her belt before her chart-topping "Short n' Sweet" album, which this year gave the singer her first No. 1 hit.
Shaboozey, meanwhile, released his first single in 2014 and his debut album in 2018 before his smash hit "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" launched him to fame this year.
But there's at least one singer in the best new artist category who is really new to music — so new, in fact, that it was only around five years ago that he even discovered he could sing.
Shortly after that discovery, in 2021, an 18-year-old Benson Boone decided to try his luck on " American Idol. " But the teenager — who "Idol" judge Katy Perry declared a potential winner — ended up forgoing the competition and also dropped out of BYU-Idaho to pursue music on his own terms.
While in high school, Boone's friend asked him to play piano in their school's battle of the bands. The teenager had grown up playing a little and loved listening to a wide range of artists — including Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel and Adele — but he didn't really understand the scope of his musical abilities until he wound up filling in as the singer at the last minute after the original singer quit.
"We didn't have a singer and my friend said I should sing and I was like, 'Dude, I never sang before,'" Boone previously told the Everett Herald .
He pushed through his hesitation and decided to take the stage to sing — much to his parents' surprise.
"My husband and I hadn't heard him sing ever really," Boone's mother told the Everett Herald . "He told us he was going to do it and we were like, 'Oh, OK, alright, this should be interesting.'
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