He’s only 16, but Colt Jaxon’s award-winning patriotic song debuted in rarified air: Three notches below country music superstar Blake Shelton on a top music-delivery platform.
Colt, who is homeschooled and lives on a small cattle ranch near Tampa, Fla., won a nationwide First Amendment-themed songwriting contest sponsored by Constituting America.
The nonprofit organization educates people about the U.S. Constitution “and the rights and liberties it provides and protects for all of us.”
The organization paid for Colt’s winning song to be professionally recorded at a Fort Worth sound studio earlier this year. Last week, Colt’s tune, “1A,” was ranked the fourth-most-streamed song on Play MPE, which specializes in “promotional music delivery right into the hands of radio and other influencers,” its website says….