Who is Chris Janson's wife Kelly Janson? The ‘Buy Me a Boat' country music star says it was love at first sight, and penned ‘Holdin' Her' as a testament to their love
The pair met at a Nashville bar in 2007 and tied the knot three years later, but the 'Buy Me a Boat' singer claims that he knew the moment he saw her that he was going to marry her.
Chris Janson has been married to Kelly Lynn Janson since 2010. Photo: @thekellyjanson/Instagram
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Janson has said that he celebrates his wife and their marriage everyday: 'Every day that I get to wake up beside Kelly feels like a celebration. We're partners in everything, and we're in love,' he said in a 2018 interview with The Tennessean.
So what do we know about Kelly Janson – the woman who inspired his 2016 single 'Holdin' Her'?
She used to work at a recording label
Kelly Janson was a consultant for a recording label when she met Chris Janson. Photo: @thekellyjanson/Instagram
When Kelly and Janson first crossed paths at that Nashville bar, she was a single mother of two working as an A&R consultant at a recording label.
It was actually under the guise of pitching songs to her that Janson first approached Kelly, inviting her to his cabin to co-write songs.
Her first meeting with Janson
Chris Janson and Kelly Janson dated for three years before getting married in 2010. Photo: @thekellyjanson/Instagram
While the 'Drunk Girls' crooner might have immediately pinpointed his future wife when he saw Kelly, little did he know that she was equally struck by Janson at first sight.
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