Morgan Wallen got his introduction into the music world by appearing on Season 6 of The Voice in 2014. The 23-year-old, who was eliminated from Adam Levine‘s team during the Playoffs round, is now in the process of recording his freshman album, and hopes to release the project soon. Simply agreeing to appear on The Voice was a stretch for Wallen, who grew up pursuing sports before he decided to take a risk and make his singing debut on national television.

“I didn’t grow up being a performer, really. I played baseball. I never had a show of my own; my name had never been on a marquee sign or anything like that. It was technically my first show, I guess,” Wallen says of his The Voice experience. “I didn’t really know who I was as an artist, or even as a person, at the time.

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