(AUDIO) PRESTON COOPER BUILT HIS STAGE PRESENCE THREE HOURS AT A TIME

debut single: “WEAK

When you first meet Preston Cooper, he can come across as quiet and a little shy, but on stage he comes alive and is entertaining and engaging, and Preston says his stage presence is definitely something he developed over time.

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“Stage presence, it’s definitely from playing three-hour gigs, hundreds of them, in Ohio. And it’s interesting because I was super shy when I started. I wouldn’t talk. I would just sing the songs and I wouldn’t say anything. And they’re like, well, say your name. It was stuff like that. I didn’t even know like, what to do. And I just started playing gigs and getting better and better and better. And by the time I got here, I just kinda had it.”