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Kane Brown’s ‘Awesome Experience’ Of Giving Back

Kane Brown is one country star who gives back, and over the years, his charity of choice has been the Boys and Girls Club of America. It’s something that he,…

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Kane Brown is one country star who gives back, and over the years, his charity of choice has been the Boys and Girls Club of America. It's something that he, as a kid, had at his disposal and had a safe space to go to after school.

As Kane told us recently, "It feels amazing to me to be able to give to the Boys and Girls Club. I feel like they’ve given me so much just by coming to the shows and telling me their stories of how they live. And, just making me really look up to what The Boys and Girls Club is all about."

He added, "It feels amazing to make a big impact in the kids’ lives by just bringing them to their first show or just kind of getting to give them some advice of what I did whenever I grew up with hard times like some of them have. So it’s just been an awesome experience all around."

Brown has been working out in his massive home gym near Nashville for a few years now, and recently walked by a mirror and saw himself in the "light" that he most wants to be.

Wearing black sweatpants and a tank top, Kane said, with a laugh, in a video he posted to Insta Stories recently while looking into a full-length mirror, "Yo, it's crazy what lighting does. It's nuts. I wish I was this big. It would be crazy."

He wrote over the video clip, "Getting ready for F1 and ran into this lighting." In the next slide, he posted an image of a private plane and wrote, "Heading home."

Brown's workout routine includes boxing, push-ups, air squats, and ring pull-ups. He also works out at Planet Fitness, and his home gym has commercial-grade equipment.

In a recent Planet Fitness Q&A, Kane told fans that he does drink on the road, and it can mess with his energy, but when he hits the gym, his energy rises, and he feels much better. He noted, "The best workouts are when you don't want to be there, but you still do the work anyway."

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.