Country artist Luke Bryan has seen his fair share of loss, but his approach to it all is quite encouraging.
In 2007, Luke Bryan got sad news. Kelly, his sister, died while she was at home with her son.
Experts could not pinpoint the reason for her death.
“They never determined what happened to Kelly. “The autopsies, the coroner, no one could figure it out,” Luke told People magazine of the incident in 2013.
That’s when her husband Ben stepped in to raise their three children. He lives alone with his son Til, as well as his daughters Kris and Jordan.
However, Ben’s death in an accident in 2014 brought the family yet another significant loss.
At the time, Til was 16 years old, while his sisters were at college. When tragedy struck, Luke Bryan and his wife Caroline acted quickly.
The couple met while living in Georgia and adopted the three children.
“We never thought twice about it,” Caroline told an interviewer in 2017.
The couple relocated Til, 16, to their Nashville home.
Luke lost his brother Chris in a vehicle accident in 2000, when he was still a teenager. Seven years later, his sister Kelly passed away, which must have been a devastating blow to the country artist.
Perhaps the agony of losing both of his brothers drives Luke’s music to be so heartfelt. The singer began his career in Nashville shortly after, and he later married his college girlfriend.
Caroline was a freshman at the time, while he was a senior at Georgia Southern University.
“We hung out as friends first, and he never pursued me romantically. I kissed him first! He was constantly afraid of making a female feel uncomfortable. “He would not cross a line,” Caroline told People in 2014.
The pair, who dated on and off for several years before being married in 2006, has now been together for nearly 11 years.
They have two boys of their own: 11-year-old Thomas Boyer, also known as “Bo,” and 8-year-old Tatum Christopher.
In 2014, Luke and Caroline expanded their family by welcoming their nephew and two nieces. The pair stated that it was not even a question for them.
“We didn’t think twice about it. You see, he and I never had to sit down and discuss it. “Should we take this on?” “We just did that,” she explained in an interview.
When Til moved to Nashville to live with his family, it was a big change for everyone.
“I woke up one day, and I’m raising a teen,” Luke once stated in an interview. “And it’s a challenge because my main thing with Til is just properly giving the right amount of advice and realizing you’re talking to someone who is becoming an adult.”
He has said that finding the appropriate balance with Til has been difficult. “I have to play the role of a parent where if he does something, he needs to get in trouble, but I also want to be a friend to him,” he told me.
Luke told ABC, “We’re buddies now, kinda.” The country singer stated, “Until he makes me…” At that point, she would scream at him, “All right, you’re making me an adult; don’t make me an adult!”
Even though the circumstances that led to their mixed family were heartbreaking, they are grateful for one another.
“You don’t want to sound like you love having them so much that you’re glad it’s the situation, but we’re honored to be doing what we feel was the right thing,” the actress explained.
He informs his boys that his nephew, Til, now plays the role of a big brother for them. They form a wonderful relationship with one another. They enjoy board games and go fishing together. Luke also included all three sons in his video for the song “What Makes You Country.”
Although there are many positives, Luke admitted that the sadness sometimes gets to him and his family, and they get angry about why they have had to suffer so much. But one must keep on.
“We feel like if we just stay positive through this, maybe we’ll be a positive inspiration for people that had these things happen to them,” Luke said during a telephone conversation. “You simply need to persevere and adapt to the circumstances.”
Luke Bryan Farm
Bryan and his biological children reside on a large farm in Nashville. The 10,000-square-foot home in rural Williamson County features a guesthouse of 1,800 square feet and a party barn of 7,000 square feet. The two houses include six bedrooms, a media room, a living room, a kitchen, and four bathrooms. There is also a catfish pond outside the porch.
According to Countryfancast, Luke named the farm “Red Bird Farm” after his sister and Chris. The country artist and his wife intended their property to resemble East Tennessee’s Blackberry Farm while they were building it. Chad James designed the property, once stating:
“One day, we were out there, and Luke asked, ‘Have you ever been to Blackberry Farm?” If you can make this farm look like Blackberry Farm, I’ll be the happiest man on the planet,” James remembered.