Brett Charles Young (born March 23, 1981) is an American country pop singer, songwriter and guitarist from Anaheim, California.

[4] His self-titled debut EP, produced by Dann Huff, was released by Republic Nashville on February 12, 2016.

[1] He attended Calvary Chapel High School in Costa Mesa, California and then went to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Irvine Valley College, and California State University, Fresno (Fresno State).

[7][8] He began singing in the late 1990s when he stepped in to replace a leader of a band who did not show up during a Christian worship meeting at high school.

[8] Young was a pitcher on his high school baseball team and led the squad to a CIF championship.

He went to Ole Miss on a baseball scholarship in 1999 after turning down pre-draft selection by both Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Minnesota Twins.

[9][10] In his one-season on the Rebel baseball team in 2000, he earned a varsity letter posting two wins and two saves.

[11] However, his pursuit of a professional baseball career was cut short by an elbow injury while at college in Fresno in 2003.

[8] He independently released a self-titled four-song EP in 2007,[14] Make Believe in 2011,[15] followed by the albums Brett Young,[16] On Fire,[17] and Broken Down in 2012–13.