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Granger Smith Talks Life After Leaving Country Music and If He Will Ever Return: ‘It’s Been a Switch’
Granger Smith stepped away from country music in 2023 to focus on ministry, and he exclusively tells Life & Style if he ever plans to return to his former life.
I haven’t really slowed down timewise, but I still travel and do speaking things and I have a book out, so I’m kind of supporting that,” Granger, 44, told Life & Style at the iHeartCountry Festival at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, on May 4. That same month, he shed more light on his decision to step away from country music in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, revealing that it came after the death of his and wife Amber Emily Bartlett ’s 4-year-old son, River, in June 2019. After losing River in a drowning accident in their home pool, Granger turned to alcohol and weed to cope, and he described a night when he hit “rock bottom.”
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