AMERICAN SONGWRITER – Country singer Cooper Alan, 28, knows he had the best role model growing up. He describes his parents as “two people who like to take care of people.” His mom ran a bakery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She retired in 2019 and saw an ad about kidney disease on an airplane during a trip.

“She had just retired and said, ‘I’m going to anonymously donate my kidney to somebody I don’t know,’” Alan said. “Mom said, ‘I’m going to save somebody’s life, and I might never ever meet that person.’ It’s an example of how giving she is. They raised me and my brothers that way.”