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I'd like to introduce you to one of Country Music's hottest new artists: Pete Scobell of the Pete Scobell Band. Through a chance encounter with a Country Music legend, this former Navy SEAL with a passion for music was encouraged to give Nashville a try. And Nashville obliged.

Pete Scobell is a celebrated Navy SEAL, competitive skier and athlete, mountain climber, inspiration, and advocate, but the guitar has been Scobell’s only constant companion as he’s traveled the world.

“I didn’t just wake up one morning and decide I want to be a musician,” Scobell said. “It’s something I’ve done my whole life. My mom was a music teacher. She died when I was 10 months old and she left all her instruments. That’s how I learned how to play. I was always trying to feel closer to her.”

“And then I got hurt,” Scobell said. “The irony was I was always playing music, then when I ended up in the hospital for traumatic brain injury, they have music therapy. They said, ‘Do you play music? That’s the best thing you can do to help your brain.’ I thought it was cool that my passion for music met up with my rehabilitation, and it was more than just a passion at that point. It was something that I needed to do. So, I went out skiing – that was one of my other passions. I was skiing in a competition, I hit my head again and I’m back in the hole. So I picked up my guitar again and focused on playing and writing. And it became very clear to me: For some reason, God keeps putting this thing back in my hands.”