Luke Bryan has dealt with a lot of his personal tragedies throughout his life. He lost both his brother and sister as an adult and took in her children when her husband passed away a few years later.
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Speaking with Cigar Aficionado, Bryan explained how music has helped him deal with grief and the tragedy of life. It's something that he hopes fans can relate to if they've experienced tragedies of their own. He hopes they can find comfort in music.
He said, "Sadly, it's part of my story. Hopefully, people can hear my story and if they have loss or something tragic, maybe it'll inspire them to try to get through another day and press on and understand there is a challenging reality to life that it is temporary. I just try to treat every day as really, really precious and try to squeeze the most out of every moment while we're here".
Luke Bryan Talks Tragedies
Bryan opened up about the songs he recorded inspired by his own grief.
Bryan also said, "You express it in different ways. I wrote a song about my brother called 'Songs You Never Heard'...that was this real powerful song for me. I wrote a song called 'God Picks His Favorite Flowers First,' and that was about my sister".
Bryan has also spent the time off stage being a parent to his nieces and nephews, raising them in the wake of the tragedies
"Now we have three children that have lost both their parents, so that becomes our new focus, to try to navigate and guide them through this life," Bryan explained.
"It kind of just happened and I woke up one day and I'm raising a teen," he told People in 2017. "And it's a challenge because my main thing with Til is just properly giving the right amount of advice and realizing you're talking to someone who is becoming an adult. I have to be that parent role where if he does something, he needs to get in trouble, but I want to be a friend to him too."
