Kipling Christian Moore (born April 1, 1980) is an American country music singer and songwriter signed to MCA Nashville.
He has released five studio albums for the label and has charted a total of twelve entries on Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay including the number-one "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck" and four additional top-ten hits.
He has also written songs for Frankie Ballard, Thompson Square, and James Wesley.
Kip Moore was born in Tifton, Georgia, to Bonnie (Mann) and Stan Moore.
He has two brothers and three sisters.
2004
He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2004, where songwriter and producer Brett James helped him sign a publishing deal.
He spent eight years in Nashville before signing a record deal with MCA Nashville.
His debut single, "Mary Was the Marrying Kind", peaked at number 45 on the country singles charts published by Billboard.
2011
Their father died in September 2011, just months before the release of Moore's debut album.
He began playing guitar while attending Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama, and made his first public performance at a Mellow Mushroom restaurant in Valdosta, Georgia.
After college, he moved to a "little hut" in Hawaii, where he also took up backpacking and surfing.
On September 27, 2011, he released his second single, "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck".
Moore co-wrote two tracks on Thompson Square's self-titled debut album which was released in February 2011: "All the Way" and "Let's Fight", the latter of which was their debut single.
2012
The song was followed by the release of his debut album Up All Night in April 2012.
Moore co-wrote every song on the album, and Brett James produced it.
A month later, "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck" hit number 1 on the Billboard country charts.
"Beer Money" was the album's second single, followed by "Hey Pretty Girl".
These songs also reached the country Top 5.
Up All Night was the most commercially successful album for a debut country male artist in both 2012 and 2013.
He also co-wrote James Wesley's 2012 single "Walking Contradiction".
2013
In October 2013, Moore announced his fifth single, "Young Love".
2014
It charted at number 22 on the Country Airplay in March 2014.
After it underperformed, it was followed by "Dirt Road", which failed to make Top 40.
Moore then decided to "scrap" his second album and compose new material.
2015
Moore then released "I'm to Blame", the lead single to his 2015 album, Wild Ones.
2016
He also co-wrote Frankie Ballard's 2016 single "Cigarette".
In 2016, Kip released his first EP titled Underground, featuring tracks “My Kind” and an acoustic version of “Midnight Slowdance”.
2017
On February 10, 2017, Moore released "More Girls Like You" as the lead single from a then-unannounced forthcoming album.
On June 21, 2017, Moore announced the album's title, Slowheart, and its release date of September 8, 2017.
2018
On November 16, 2018, Moore released his second EP titled Room to Spare: The Acoustic Sessions.
Three singles were released in preparation for the EP: "Tennessee Boy," an acoustic version of "Plead the Fifth," and "It Ain't California."
The EP consists of seven acoustic tracks.
2019
In May 2019, Moore announced on social media "That's a wrap, record #4 is done".
No release date had been officially announced, but on June 15 Moore announced he was checking mixes for his upcoming record, indicating the record may be released sometime in 2019.
On August 9, 2019, Moore released a much-anticipated lead single to his yet to be named upcoming album.
"She's Mine" is a song Moore wrote over a decade ago, and finally released it in 2019.
2020
On March 27, 2020, Moore released the title track for his anticipated fourth studio album titled Wild World.
Later that same day, Moore did an interview with Billboard about his new album.
The album, which consists of thirteen tracks (twelve of which are co-written by Moore), was released on May 29, 2020.
Another preview song, "Southpaw", followed on April 17, 2020.
