Born and raised in Lexington, N.C., Coppley has been singing since he was just 4 years old. Having put some rock bands together throughout high school, he found that sitting behind a drum kit wasn’t where he belonged. "I knew I wanted to be the person entertaining the crowd," says Coppley. So he traded his drumsticks for a guitar, and he'’s been performing up and down the east coast ever since. Not your typical born-and-raised-on-country story, Coppley's was more of a natural evolution. Read more on