Who Is Brett Landin? The Story Behind Her Journey to Country Music

There’s nothing we like more than championing country artists in the New York area. This week we got the chance to catch up with singer-songwriter, Brett Landin. We chatted with Landin about her move to New York City, her brand new music, and everything in between. Keep reading to learn more about what she has coming down the pipeline!

Growing up, the songstress was always a creative. “I’m born and raised in Dallas, Texas,” began the singer. “I’ve always been a closeted singer-songwriter. I’ve always been creative. I went to a performing arts high-school for acting.” For Landin, music and the creative arts was a passion and a way to connect to herself.

“I was never the kid who thought I was going to be a star, but I was always a creative kid,” shared the singer, adding, “I always knew I think that I wanted to do something more than I was able to even see, and that was so confusing as a young kid to know I wanted to do something big, but I don’t think I knew what that was because I think that I love a lot of things. It’s what has really informed my music and as a person and as a performer.”

Despite not quite knowing what she was going to when she got older, Landin was enamored with music and the storytelling. She recalls falling in love with artists like Norah Jones and Stevie Nicks at an early age. “The artists growing up that I nostalgically hold close to my heart and that maybe now have informed my music that I’ve realized now maybe more so than prior are Norah Jones, Kenny Loggins, James Taylor, a lot of The Eagles, Sheryl Crowe, Stevie Nicks. I actually think a lot of that sonic soundscape has informed my music quite a bit,” she shared. “A lot of the artists now that teeter in that country-Americana world I think I realize that I live more in that buffer than I do in the pop-country buffer, but I like being genre-bending. I love that music has really opened up to allow artists permission to evolve and to pivot and to fuse a bunch of genres and influences together.”

The Turning Point:

Eventually, Landin’s creative soul took her to California after graduating high-school. “I initially went to University of Southern California for acting and then COVID happened, and there was no acting,” she explained, “I was on Zoom classes, and I changed my major to something that wasn’t in the creative field because I wanted to try to get as much out of Zoom school as possible, but I was really creatively stifled.”

Like many of us, Landin needed something to lean on during unparalleled times. She immersed herself in songwriting. “I really started songwriting more than I ever had prior as a way to process and navigate a break-up that had recently ended and the global pandemic, and my dad was like “these are really good, and I would really love for you to get into a recording studio just to have the experience.” I was really resistant.”

Despite the resistance, the songstress gave into her dad, and found herself heading to Nashville to give the music thing a real try. “It turned into something I truly could never of anticipated. It was going to Nashville for the first time in 2021, doing some co-writes, starting to build out what would become my debut EP. I played my first live show in Los Angeles, when I was back in my senior year of college in 2023. It was a breaking sound show in LA and my third show ever was at The Troubadour, and my fifth show ever was at Beach Life Ranch Music Festival with Midland and Wyonna Judd. It’s been such a crazy journey and I feel so grateful for every avenue.”

Today:

Flash forward to today, Landin has landed in New York City, and she is making her name for herself in the country music landscape one song at a time.

“I’ve really found my voice or at least what my voice is in this season of my life as we collect and create for my next EP. That feels really empowering,” she shared, adding, “I moved here and I really thank God everyday that I did that, and that I followed that gut instinct.”

While Landin works to ready her EP for early 2026, the singer-songwriter just released her latest single, “Same Coast,” which was inspired by a real-life conversation between her and friends. “I got a text in my best friend group chat in college that said, “I miss you guys so much. I’m the happiest that I’ve ever been, but I still missing doing life with you guys, like homecoming and tailgates and all that.” And I feel like most of the songs that I have missing have been a moment, where I’m like oh my gosh, and the song is done and dusted, and I was like “Oh my gosh.” I picked up. My phone and pressed record on voice memo, and started humming and recording some lyrics that came into my head, and I ran into the studio, and I was like “Johnny, I know we had plans to record “Maid Of Honor,” but we need to write this song right now,” she shared.

The song speaks to the universality of life changing and the bittersweetness that life has to offer, much like the EP to follow, which offers a blend of thoughtful lyrics and honest storytelling throughout.

“I’m truly so excited about this [upcoming] project. I love this project. I think this it is so me, and I tell stories that are valuable. The EP is essentially a collection of songs about the people that hold you up, and I felt like I had written all my matters of heart songs for this season of life, and this EP and these singles are really reflective of being in a new era of my life and navigating friendships and family and how that evolves through the ups and downs and the love and the lost, the relationships, the non-romantic ones are messy, and I think this EP is about finding the gratitude in all of them.”

Stay tuned and make sure to keep Landin on your radar! Also, go stream “Same Coast.”

Connect:

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Brett Landin’s music is available everywhere you buy or stream music. Take a listen below and check out more new recently released tunes on our ‘New Country Music’ playlist. Be sure to give the playlist a follow for your weekly new country music fix.