Filmore

Country singer/songwriter FILMORE moves with a maverick’s instincts: strong-minded, uncompromising, constantly pushing into uncharted territory. Since making history as the first independent artist featured on Spotify’s Hot Country cover, the Missouri-bred musician has repeatedly shattered the barriers between Country and Pop, long before that brand of genre-bending ruled the musical zeitgeist. In another groundbreaking leap for FILMORE, the Nashville-based phenomenon minted a deal with global icon Pitbull’s Mr. 305 Records, making him the first Country act signed to the label. With his new album Atypical, FILMORE stacks every track with hard-hitting hooks and a bold mosaic of styles and sounds (Outlaw Country, Hard-Rock, Hip-Hop, Dancehall-Pop, and more). The result: a 21-song powerhouse built on his down-home poetry and daringly honest storytelling, equal parts high-octane thrill ride and unvarnished look at life and love.

Not only a declaration of his belief in breaking boundaries, the title to Atypical calls back to a fan-beloved track from FILMORE’s 2016 debut project Proof. “There’s a line in the chorus to that song that says ‘Anything but typical,’ and over time I started meeting all these fans who’d tattooed those words on their wrists,” he explains. “It became my own personal motto, and it gave me the freedom to be 100 percent myself instead of chasing validation from other people. This album feels like a culmination of everything I’ve learned to this point, and it’s me at my most unfiltered.”

Growing up in Wildwood, MO, he first discovered his vocal talents by singing in choir as a kid and later earned a scholarship to study vocal performance at the University of Missouri, where he further honed his chops by gigging at nearby colleges. After graduating, FILMORE headed to Nashville and briefly lived in his car, then teamed up with several friends and moved into a house that doubled as their studio. Tapping into his hustle mentality, he eventually landed a publishing deal and began opening for Country stars like Sam Hunt on tour. After selling his car to pay for his masters, FILMORE released Proof and scored a major hit with “Headlights”—a chart-climbing breakthrough that soon found him signing his first record deal and making his full-length debut with State I’m In, a 2020 project featuring massive hits like “Nothing’s Better.

After releasing his 2023 album Mean Something, FILMORE stepped back from the spotlight to start a family, ultimately returning to the studio with a profoundly heightened clarity on his musical vision. “The past year has been so eye-opening for me, and I feel like I'm locked in on the direction I want to keep moving in from now on,” he says. “I’m not trying to fit into any type of mold, but I’m also not trying to be different just for the sake of being different. I just want to be unapologetically myself, and bring in every kind of music that’s influenced me over the years. If you want to know who I really am as an artist, then this album will tell you everything.”