Granger Smith was thinking about retiring from music for months before his recent announcement. The country singer took to Instagram earlier this month to confirm he’d be taking a step back from music to pursue ministry and serve his family’s church.
During a chat with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante, Smith said of how long he’d been thinking about retiring, “I probably knew for sure around October 2022.
So I had a long time to think about it. And the longer the time went by, the more sure I was of it. And then probably around New Year’s… I knew it’s time to tell the band, time to tell the crew and start the ball rolling.” READ MORE: Country Singer Granger Smith Announces Retirement From Music To ‘Pursue Ministry’: ‘Hopeful About The New Chapter’ Bustamante mentioned whether he’d been thinking he’d have to do it now or maybe never do it, to which Smith replied, “Yeah, I think it’s an overwhelming feeling.
You know, as I was studying and reading the Bible and trying to be faithful to God as much as I could, and if I want to be faithful, if I want to surrender and be faithful, then it would be a contradiction if I said, ‘Well, I’m going to be faithful on my terms or on my time.’ “And so I kind of wrestled with that.
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