Tyler Childers

Born: 21 June 1991

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Years Active: 2010–present

Genre/s: Neotraditional country, bluegrass, folk, honky-tonk

Label/s: Hickman Holler Records, Thirty Tigers, RCA

Member of: Tyler Childers and the Food Stamps

Timothy Tyler Childers (born June 21, 1991) is an American country singer-songwriter. His music has been described as a mix of neotraditional country, bluegrass, folk, and honky-tonk. His breakthrough studio album, Purgatory (2017), was named one of the best albums of the year by several publications, and earned Childers an Americana Music Award. He subsequently received Grammy Award nominations for his albums Long Violent History (2020) and Rustin' in the Rain (2023) and the singles "All Your'n" (2019) and "In Your Love" (2023), the latter of which was his first top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

Tyler Childers was born and grew up in Lawrence County, Kentucky. His father worked in the coal industry and his mother is a nurse. He was born with clubfoot and had to undergo surgeries to remedy the condition when he was 18 months old, and again when he was aged five. He had learned to sing in church as a member of the choir. Childers started to play guitar and write songs at approximately 13 years of age. He attended Lawrence County High School (LCHS) and transferred to Paintsville High School, Johnson County where he graduated in 2009. Fellow country musicians from Johnson County include Chris Stapleton (Staffordsville), Loretta Lynn (Butcher Hollow), and Crystal Gayle; Sturgill Simpson, a known acquaintance of Childers, is from Jackson, Kentucky in nearby Breathitt County, Kentucky.

Childers studied for a semester at Western Kentucky University and then enrolled at Bluegrass Community and Technical College for a few semesters. He dropped out of college and worked odd jobs for some time while pursuing a music career.