She was also from Louisiana so we naturally got along great and the whole staff really took me in and made me part of the family. ![]() Lucky for me she found my Myspace and we set up a meeting and it all totally clicked. ![]() and went on searching, curious if I’d continued down the music path. She apparently found my video as a kid playing with Hank Williams, Jr. I got a message from Cyndi Forman at Universal Publishing saying that she’d like to meet with me in Nashville. I had a couple of original songs on my Myspace page that were just demos and such. How did your first publishing deal come about? I could channel energy back toward making music and that all of a sudden gave a new purpose to so many things in my life. It slowly became an outlet for me, like a journal but better, because all of a sudden feelings and thoughts mattered. So I started making up my own songs and realized that was another part of music I could enjoy being a part of. I got tired of playing other people’s songs and I just wanted something new. I kinda found out about songwriting through performing. What came first for you, performing or songwriting? ![]() I wrote it for myself and actually recorded it for an early independent album when I was seven, a decision I sometimes regret as the song made very little sense and now it’ll live on forever! The first song I wrote was called “Six Years Old” and I actually wrote it when I was six. How old were you when you wrote your first song? CMA New Artist Of The Year and Martin Guitar Ambassador Hunter Hayes talks about writing, recording, performing and how he went from MySpace to the top of the Country charts after signing his first publishing deal at 17.
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