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Kashus Culpepper Explains How His Journey to Songwriting Started With a Jimmy Buffett Cover at a Margaritaville
Singer-songwriter Kashus Culpepper is Billboard's country rookie of the month for February.
“He would start all the hymns out at my church, and he had this crazy voice — almost like Howlin’ Wolf, really raspy — and did these Stevie Wonder-like melodies,” Culpepper tells Billboard. In 2020, at the height of a COVID-19 pandemic-caused pause, Culpepper picked up a guitar and began learning cover songs to entertain his fellow Navy troops while they were deployed in Rota, Spain. He was performing at one of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville locations on the southern coast, when an audience request became the catalyst for Culpepper to begin writing his own material.
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