McCoy Moore

With a style rooted in the charm of his Central Florida home, Sony Music Nashville’s McCoy Moore makes country music so radiant and relaxed it should come with SPF 50. Through beaming baritone vocals and a warm sonic glow, the singer-songwriter embodies the land of perpetual summer, complete with its easy-does-it code of humble sincerity.

On his debut album, Sunshine State, the Lakeland native shows Florida is much more than a vacation destination—it’s the place that made him the artist he is. A lifelong country fan schooled on late ’90s and early 2000s radio, Moore grew up with Kenny Chesney (his first concert), Tim McGraw, and Keith Whitley as the soundtrack to travel baseball and day trips to the beach. A chance encounter with Luke Combs in 2017 helped propel Moore to Nashville at 19 years old, where he quickly found his creative footing.

Now on Sunshine State, and the expanded deluxe version that includes his debut radio single “Forget We Ever Met,” modern muscle and a throwback country spirit tap the nostalgic heat of long-gone summers, while Moore’s vocal carries the buzz of an incoming thunderhead. Heavy bass lines and steel guitars hang thick like Spanish moss off an old live oak (much like the one on the album’s cover, which was shot in his grandparents’ garage).

Wrapping nostalgic real-life stories in a rich, resonant country baritone, Moore has accumulated more than 32 million global streams while touring with HARDY, Kip Moore, Chase Rice and, later this year, Ashley Cooke. This spring, Moore made his Grand Ole Opry debut following a surprise birthday invite, a bucket-list moment for the rising entertainer. But throughout it all, Moore never veers far from the Sunshine State.