Granger Smith Gets Candid About Financial Fears And Doing Right By His Band After Retirement

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Granger Smith didn’t take his big life change lightly. In an interview with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante, the singer and preacher opened up about his decision to retire from country music to focus on his ministry. READ MORE: Granger Smith Reveals When He Knew He Wanted To Retire From Music: ‘My Passion Was Slowly Decreasing’ Smith announced his retirement earlier this month in an Instagram message, explaining to fans, “Being a musician was never a prison, but this is a new passion, a new focus, a new direction that I believe is going to allow me to focus more on individual people and their lives, which is ultimately why I started music touring in the very beginning.” In his conversation with ET Canada, Smith said that despite personally feeling the need to give up music to serve God, he did have financial concerns for both himself and his band. “I’ve done this a long time, and not just me paying the bills, but there’s 14 guys that travel just in the in the road crew and the band.

And some of them have been with me 13, 14 years and they have families,” he said. READ MORE: Country Singer Granger Smith Announces Retirement From Music To ‘Pursue Ministry’: ‘Hopeful About The New Chapter’ “So it’s like, you know, ‘We’ve got busses and a semi-truck and all this gear, and you’re telling me, Granger, just because you got this feeling, you’re going to cut all this off, you’re going to tell all these families, they got to go find another job just because you have a feeling?

Because you’re saying you can’t reconcile something?'” Smith continued. “That will drive a man insane through a lot of sleepless nights, knowing that  that announcement was coming.” Smith also had kind things to say about his record label, BMG, who