LAUREN WATKINS

Date Signed: April 2023

Label: Big Loud Records / Songs & Daughters

Type of Music: Country

Management: Big Loud Management (Seth England), Songs & Daughters (Nicolle Galyon, Melanie Mulrain)

Booking: The Neal Agency (Austin Neal, Haley Teske)

Legal: Milom Horsnell Crow Rose Kelley PLC (Page Kelley)

Publicity: Big Loud Records (Jess Anderson)

Web: laurenwatkinsmusic.com

A&R: Seth England, Nicolle Galyon, Camille Kenny

As a talented young musician growing up in Nashville, Lauren Watkins was in the right place to launch a music career. But, as the younger sister to Caroline Watkins, another musician who was taking it far more seriously, the country-music musician simply didn’t see herself performing professionally. “For me, it was fun. For her, it was a career,” Watkins says of playing with her sister when she was 12 or 13 years old.

Thus, Watkins left Nashville to attend college and never turned her back. Well, almost. “About halfway through school, I realized that music was in my life since I was born,” she says. “So I moved back to Nashville to become a full-time artist.”

Around the same time, Watkins was developing a strong online presence by posting seemingly throwaway Instagram videos of her performing new material. Some of them caught the attention of married