Rising Country Music Star and Fort Worth Native Drake Milligan Gears Up For Two Hometown Shows.
Drake Milligan, might be more famous both nationally and internationally than he is in his hometown. Milligan was a finalist on Season 17 of America’s Got Talent (AGT), and even performed two of his hit songs “Don’t Leave Me Loving You” and “I Got A Problem” on the first season of America’s Got Talent: Fantasy League last February. But chances are, you’ve never heard of him until now.
Milligan already has two albums to his credit. Dallas/Fort Worth was released in 2022 and debuted at No. 1 on iTunes and his second album, Jukebox Songs came out this February. Even with all these accomplishments, you may not yet have heard of Drake Milligan. But, he’s someone you really should get to know. So, allow me to introduce you to this homegrown talent, who graduated from Mansfield’s Legacy High School. He just finished up his first UK headline tour and will be headed back home for two shows in Fort Worth this August and September.
The Cute Kid In The Jumpsuit
Drake Milligan might be best known for portraying Elvis Presley on the Country Music Television (CMT) series Sun Records in 2017. And there’s a good reason for that. Sun Records recounted the unplanned session of the so-called “Million Dollar Quartet” that consisted of four fledgling musicians Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash who gathered around the piano inside Sun Studios in Memphis back in 1956. That impromptu jam session featuring so much pivotal talent wasn’t released to the public until 1981 a time capsule really, recording the progenitors of rock and roll.
I first discovered Elvis through an impersonator performing at a local restaurant at age seven,” Milligan tells PaperCity Fort Worth. “He was in a jumpsuit, and I thought what is this? What’s going on?”
As a child, Milligan got so good at his own Elvis impression, that he became “The cute kid in the jumpsuit, traveling around and performing at Elvis festivals,” he says. “It’s how I learned to entertain.”
Once his own songwriting and classic country style began to evolve, Drake Milligan appeared on American Idol in 2018 but he dropped out of the competition, opting to move to Nashville instead
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