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Sam Hunt Expecting Baby No. 2 With Wife Hannah

Sam Hunt and his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, are expecting their second child. Per Entertainment Tonight, Hunt, 38, announced the news on stage last night (April 21). During Hunt’s Las…

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Singer & songwriter Sam Hunt attends the Hall Of Fame Health And Fund Recovery Inaugural Charity Concert & Dinner at The Twelve Thirty Club on April 05, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Sam Hunt and his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, are expecting their second child. Per Entertainment Tonight, Hunt, 38, announced the news on stage last night (April 21).

During Hunt’s Las Vegas concert, the singer told the crowd that he and Hannah are expanding their family by one. The couple, who have been married since 2017, already share a 10-month-old daughter, Lucy Louise. Hunt’s family has been joining him in Vegas for his concerts for the weekend. Hunt hasn’t addressed the baby news on his social media platforms as of presstime.

The baby announcement comes just a week after Hunt and his wife celebrated their sixth anniversary earlier this week. The couple were on and off for several years during and after attending college. Hannah has been the inspiration behind his debut album, Montevallo.

Following a divorce filing made by Hannah last year, the couple announced the news of their first child. She accused Hunt of marital misconduct in February 2022. The couple reconciled shortly after, and she asked the court to dismiss the case in May. During another concert performance in June of that year, Hunt revealed to fans that he welcomed their daughter, Lucy.

As we previously reported, Hunt said his daughter “drastically" changed his life. He said, "I mean, the way I experience everything on a day-to-day basis has drastically changed. I drove down to live outside of town; there’s a little pond and gravel driveway; we live in a little cabin with a little pond several hundred yards from the cabin. When we first moved out there, I’d go down to the pond occasionally, but not really all that often.”

He added that his thoughts and feelings are geared more toward his family. He said, “I have found myself over the past few months tapping into those feelings about family life and being home and having a new child and the responsibilities of being a father. I feel like having a child sort of woke me up from this mid-thirties slumber sort of thing. So, it’s been awesome.”

8 Sam Hunt Songs That Make Us Swoon

Sam Hunt came into country music and made his mark in 2014 with his debut album Montevallo, which was nominated for Best Country Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015. His towering, good looks made Sam an instant country star. As we celebrate his 37th birthday today (12/8), we take a look at and countdown his eight best songs.

8. "House Party" (2015)

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An upbeat fun song and a big hit for Sam. It’s one of his signature songs.


7. "Break Up in a Small Town" (2015)

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Hunt discussed the process of making the song, saying it was born when he was "singing that chorus melody late one night while riding around trying to come up with song ideas.”


6. "Take Your Time" (2014)

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In the music video for this song, his second radio single, Sam fights a man who was abusing his girlfriend, freeing up the woman to leave with her baby. This song was actually promoted to pop radio six months after its country release.


5. "Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s" (2020)

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Hunt said of writing the song's content, "In the 90s, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or more, so break ups in the 90's were not easier. The trick was not filling it up with a bunch of technology references and trying to find the story within it. It's just the world's so much smaller now."


4. "Body Like a Back Road" (2017)

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This song spent 20 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart – this made Sam the solo country artist with the second longest run at the top of the 59-year-old “Hot Country Songs” chart. Hank Snow's, "I'm Moving On" spent 21 weeks at the top.


3. "Kinfolks" (2019)

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Another chart-topper for Hunt. Rolling Stone reviewed the song saying in part, "Acoustic guitar arpeggios that lead into big, bright choruses of banjo, vocal snippets, and wah-wah guitar." Well said.


2. "Leave the Night On" (2014)

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The first song that introduced us to this former football player from Georgia. It was his first single, and his first number one song.


1."Hard to Forget" (2020)

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Just as music critics started saying that Sam just wasn’t country enough, he kicked off a song with an original recording of Webb Pearce’s 1953 hit, “There Stands The Glass.”

Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.