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It was 11 years ago this month that Dan Smyers and Shay met for the first time at a house party at Dan’s place. Since then, the multi-Grammy winning artists have released five albums and gathered fans around the world that hear them on both, country and pop radio.

Shay said:

“I truly can’t really imagine it if that day never came, I would like to think that we would meet somewhere else. You know, connect in a different way. But man, if we wouldn’t have connected that party, I mean we wouldn’t, we wouldn’t be here today. I mean this is it’s a crazy thing to play the what if game but that’s our lives would be completely different.”