Five Things You Didn’t Know about Anderson East

Anderson East

Anderson East might be a name you recognize if you love music, but he’s suddenly more famous than ever for something else entirely. It turns out, he’s the new man in recently divorced country music super star Miranda Lambert’s new life. She’s the ex-wife of singer and television musical host Blake Shelton, and it looks as if she’s found a new love interest in her life. Anderson East and Miranda Lambert made their red carpet debut in April 2016, and now everyone wants to know all they can about this R&B/Pop musician from Alabama, so we thought we’d find out a few things about him you did not already know.

He’s got a lot in common with Blake Shelton

It’s been said time and time again that most men and women have a type. I think we can safely say that Miranda Lambert has a type. She likes musicians, of course, and she likes men that hunt. Of course, those are both things she really enjoys, too, so it does make sense that she would try and date someone she has stuff in common with. Of course, sometimes people fall for the same person time and time again, so we might want to keep our eye on this one.

He’s not really Anderson East

It might be the name that made him famous, but Anderson East is actually just his stage name. His birth name is actually Michael Cameron Anderson, but I think that we can all agree that Michael Anderson is a bit of a boring and safe name – as well as a very common one (not calling either name boring in any way other than the fact that everyone has the same name and that is not good when it comes to being famous…my son’s middle name is Michael, in fact). Because his name is a very common one all the way around, he made the decision to go by his stage name for the time being.

He’s been writing music his entire life

If you want to know how long Anderson East has been interested in music, just take a listen to this fun fact. He used a song he wrote during his childhood as his performance song at a talent show when he was in the seventh grade. The song was called “Brains” and he wrote it long before he ever used it to show off his musical talent to his friends and family. That means he’s been writing music almost all of his life, and we cannot say we are not impressed.

He’s not a new boyfriend

Fans of Miranda Lambert have been on fire since she walked the red carpet with him over the weekend. However, Anderson East is not her new boyfriend. It turns out that they’ve been dating for many months, and they actually went public with their relationship back in December 2015. This means they were probably dating for at least a few weeks or months prior to that to want to even bother going public. It was already something a bit more than just casual dating if they were willing to tell the world they were a couple more than five months ago. We can say that neither of them are in the middle of a very new relationship right now.

He’s Young

Anderson East is not an older musician. In fact, he’s pretty darn young. He’s only 27. He was born in 1988 and that means he’s a few years younger than his girlfriend. He’s also significantly younger than his new girlfriend’s ex-husband, and that might be a better choice for someone like Miranda Lambert who wants to take a bit more time to start a family and get going on that portion of her private life.

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