The Eli Young Band began with four musicians who met during their college days in Texas. The band is now 11 years into a career built on touring without a single lineup change. They received their first platinum record for “Crazy Girl” and have sold over 1.5 million downloads of the track.

After Thompson Square chart-topping duo’s self-titled debut album, they released of their Grammy-nominated Number One, Platinum “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” that became iTunes’ 2011 Country Song of the Year, the Most Played Song at Country Radio in 2011 (Mediabase) and  reached the top of the Billboard Heat Seekers Chart.

Tate Stevens formed his own band in 2007, recording an album in Kansas City the following year. In 2009 competed on The X Factor singing the songs, “Tough,” “Anything Goes,” “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” “I’m Already There,” “From This Moment On” and “Tomorrow.”