Born Samuel Robert Barber in Perry Country, Missouri, on April 15, 2003, country
singer Sam Barber wrote his first songs as a teenager, before studying civil
engineering. Still a student, he posted his first videos on social networks in
2021, mainly covers such as Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man", but also "Ophelia" by
The Lumineers. The audience for his first personal track, "Run Away High",
encouraged him to audition for American Idol, but he was not selected. Luck
smiled on him when another of his songs, "Straight and Narrow", received rave
reviews on the networks and in the char...