"My dad was a super-hard worker," Pardi explains on his website. "Now as a grown man I really appreciate that. The area I'm from is really blue-collar, agricultural, everybody's working, everybody's doing something in construction, something in farming. Everybody's just working hard. When I go back, there's that pride there that's like this made me who I am."
It was his grandma who first made him fall in love with the likes of Garth Brooks and Merle Haggard, according to Taste of Country. "My grandma really influenced me in country music because she always loved country music," Pardi said. "From like 3 years old on, during the summer or during the work days, my parents would drop me off at my grandma's. We had this karaoke machine, and we would just sing."
Pardi was working at a grocery store by age 14, and he then put in long hours at a Ford dealership. Meanwhile, he was in a band and starting to write songs. The California native moved to Nashville after high school and landed a deal with Capitol Nashville. He wrote songs for other artists first before making waves with his own album. Now, we're betting the sky's the limit with Pardi's success!
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