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Kane Brown: The Sweet Concert Moment He Didn’t Know Was Happening

Kane Brown appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show and shared a story of meeting a kid and hugging him while in concert, not knowing what the kid was experiencing until…

Kane Brown sits with a mic in his hand, wearing a gray sweater and camo pants.
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Kane Brown appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show and shared a story of meeting a kid and hugging him while in concert, not knowing what the kid was experiencing until after the show.

Kelly asked him about a recent special moment with a fan at one of his concerts, and Kane responded, "I don't know why I did this, and I'm not going to do it anymore for my fans in the future. I got this weird kick of wearing sunglasses on stage, but they were Meta sunglasses, so I could record everything. I got really cool videos."

He continued, "But, I'm walking and I can't see anything and I just feel this little person beside me and so I take a picture real quick and then I keep walking and after the show, everybody's like, 'That was so sweet.' And I was like, 'What was sweet?' And I ended up reading the sign, and it was saying that he got picked on in school."

The sign read: "Bullied for the color of my skin, I just want a hug, Kane."

The singer said, "So I didn't get to read the whole sign until I got home and saw the picture, so I felt bad that I didn't sit there and talk to him. It was sweet, and I hope he remembers that. I love him if he's watching this."

Brown told Clarkson that he, too, experienced that, explaining that his father has been in prison since 1996, and he's still there. Kane said, "I grew up with my whole white side of my family, and so my dad was never talked about, and everybody on that side of my family was white. I never knew anything about color."

He shared that as he got older, he started hearing words that didn't mean the nicest things and finding out what they meant.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.