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Meet Luke Combs, the country superstar you probably haven't heard of

If Nashville music business insider Nicole Hocking ever needs a reminder of just how much her fiance loves her, she can flip on pretty much any country radio station and hear it.

These days it wouldn't be long before she'd be listening to Luke Combs' smash power ballad "Beautiful Crazy," which the country singer and songwriter thought up long before the two got engaged in November.

"I wrote that song before we started dating," Combs, 29, said in an interview from Missouri earlier this week, a few days ahead of his spotlight performance Saturday in

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