After trying his hand at making it on a season of American Idol in 2022, country singer Cameron Whitcomb has started to make an impact in his native Canada with compelling, upbeat, heartfelt tunes delivered with an appealing raspy twang. The title track from his debut EP, Quitter (2024), and the singles "Medusa" and "Hundred Mile High" have all placed on his country's Hot 100 survey.
Whitcomb, born in 2003 in Alberta, Canada, and raised in the British Columbia city of Nanaimo, was hardly a candidate for country success as a youth. He grew up idolizing Eminem and local hip-hop...