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Luke Combs Once Suffered From Imposter Syndrome

After a handful of years of being a country superstar, Luke Combs says that he is finally comfortable in his skin. That wasn’t always the case, as Luke told us….

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After a handful of years of being a country superstar, Luke Combs says that he is finally comfortable in his skin. That wasn't always the case, as Luke told us.

Combs said that he doubted himself a bit at the beginning of his career. He offered, "It was hard for a few years, to be honest. You know you just don't feel comfortable in your own skin doing it. You're like, 'Man, am I really this guy that everybody thinks I am or wants me to be?'"

Luke says he isn't alone, "I think any artist would tell you that they suffered from imposter syndrome before where they are like, 'Maybe I'm not this guy that everybody thinks that I am.' And I don't think that I have put any more stock in the fact that I am that guy at all. I try not to live my life having any kind of ego about it. I try not to put too much stock in how good of a person or human being or husband or dad or friend I am. I don't want any of that to be based on, 'Okay, I am a good friend because I am a country singer.'"

He adds, "I just try to separate the two. I've done a lot of work to be able to separate who I am as a human being from who I am on stage."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.