Brett Young is an American country pop singer and songwriter who was born on March 23, 1981, in Anaheim, California, in the United States. He attended Calvary Chapel High School in Costa Mesa and then Ole Miss. Young went on to attend Irvine Valley College and Fresno State University. His first role as a singer came when he replaced an absent band leader at a high school Christian worship group. Young was also a talented baseball player and pitched on his high school team. He was so good he led his team to a CIF championship and was offered a free ride at Ole Miss on a baseball scholarship in 1999. Young took up the offer to continue his education and even turned down pre-draft selections by the Tampa Bay Deliv Rays and Minnesota Twins. Young's career in baseball ended when he received an elbow injury in 2003.

After that, Young took after singer Gavin DeGraw after hearing his album Chariot. Inspired, Young went back to music and wrote six songs for his debut album which he released in 2016 on Republic Nashville. Young married his girlfriend of 10 years, Taylor Mills on November 3, 2018. The pair has expressed plans to start a family.