ABOUT MIKE GOSSIN

Mike Gossin has been working at the core of Nashville’s pop-country scene for over a decade. In that time he has become a key force in curating the sound that listeners associate with the genre. As a founding member of powerhouse group Gloriana, he toured internationally with mega-acts like Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, and Sheryl Crow. In that time they dominated the Country and Hot 100 charts; were nominated for numerous honors, winning AMA, CMT, and ACM Awards; and even played at the White House at the request of the President. Mike’s acumen as a guitar-player has always made him notorious on the scene, but with Gloriana dissolved and a solo career beckoning, his formidable voice and canderous storytelling now get to shine in their own right. “There’s a lot about me that’s integral to who I am, and I feel like people haven’t had a chance to see and hear everything,” he offers, ”It’s time for me to change that.” 

Born and raised in the Adirondack region of upstate New York surrounded by farmland, from an early age Mike was encouraged by his parents to embrace artistic endeavors. “They had a rule: you live in our house, you need to play one musical instrument,” Mike explains, “When I was five I picked piano.” Two years later he also took up the drums, then at age twelve, the world showed him where some of his greatest gifts lay. “My oldest brother had this old, beat-up acoustic guitar,” he recounts, “He showed me my first barre chord and I fell in love. After that, at age 14, I started my first band, and I remember thinking… making music is what God put me here for.” 

After graduating high school early, Mike joined his brothers in Wilmington, North Carolina where they were at college. “I started a band, and for the next eight years I played music in bars five nights a week,” he remembers, “I honed my craft, but at a certain point, I knew I couldn’t fulfill my dreams in Wilmington. Nashville was just a state away.” He and his middle brother loaded up a car they’d borrowed from their uncle and made the move. While crashing on friends’ couches they put out a social media ad looking for band members, and suddenly Gloriana came to be. Their killer harmonies and echoes of Fleetwood Mac made them a hit around town and on the road, but they exploded onto the broader scene when Taylor Swift booked them as her tour opener, a transcendent experience that carried them through the next two years. After nearly a decade together, thousands of shows in arenas and stadiums, major industry awards, and gold and platinum records, the band decided to go their separate ways.

Following the dissolution of the band, Mike returned home to Wilmington and began playing the Carolina coast as a solo acoustic act. During this time he reconnected with his longtime friend from his Gloriana days: veteran engineer Mark Dobson (credits include Keith Urban, Maren Morris, Willie Nelson). “Mark called me up and said ‘Man, you should make your own record.’ I knew he was right, and I headed back to Nashville to get started a couple days later.” 

Gossin’s debut solo project is a deeply personal affair, he writes and performs on every track and makes his first outing as a producer. “Over the years in the band, I had gotten to ask all these questions of our grammy award-winning producer Matt Serletic (credits include Santana, Matchbox Twenty, and Aerosmith) and really studied him in the studio. Matt indulged all of my late-night production questions and was an incredible mentor. That experience set me up to do my own production.

As a member of a band, Mike Gossin has entertained millions; appeared on TV shows including Ellen, Leno, Fallon, and Kimmel; played for troops abroad, and performed with the heroes he grew up listening to. Now as a solo artist, he harnesses all that this taught him and stands unoccluded. The new EP boasts songs that bridge his twin worlds of Nashville and North Carolina, sharing his loves, his losses, and his sense of fun. At once anthemic and spirited, yet intimate, Mike Gossin’s first solo EP project stands him on the precipice define his presence in the pop-country genre as his own man. His own artist. His own authentic self.