Bailey Zimmerman Says His Mom Believed In Him So Much She Lent Him $1500, Which She Didn’t Have, To Record His First Song

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Bailey Zimmerman is a proud momma’s boy. The country singer chatted to ET Canada’s Jed Tavernier at the Boots and Hearts Music Festival over the weekend at the Burl’s Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte, Ontario.

Zimmerman explained how his mom, Kristi Bailey, always believed in him and even gave him $1500, which she didn’t have, to record a song he’d been working on at the beginning of his career. READ MORE: Bailey Zimmerman Shatters Country Records With Debut Album  Zimmerman said of whether he thought his mom knew he was destined for greatness, “I remember her telling me when I was like 9 or 10, we would sing Taylor Swift in our single-cab blue SS truck that my grandpa built her.

We would put Taylor Swift on and I would sing Taylor Swift. And she was like, ‘You’re a singer. You can sing that stuff.’ “And then now, gosh, 10, 12, 13 years later, I’m doing this stuff and we never saw it coming, of course.

But when I started singing in 2020 and really tried to sing and was like, ‘I’m going to really try to do this,’ we really believed in it.” READ MORE: Who Is Jelly Roll?