A Nashville-based artist who blends pop and electronic elements with earnest country songwriting, Tyler Filmore — who performs as Filmore — rose to success at the end of the 2010s with breakthrough singles like “Slower” and “Nothing’s Better.” After delivering his debut album, State I’m In, in 2020, Filmore focused on releasing singles like 2022’s “Mean Something” and the patriotic party jam “USA,” which featured a guest spot from Pitbull.

Born and raised in Wildwood, Missouri, Filmore was active in choirs and local groups before heading to the University of Missouri where he formed a band — also called Filmore — that became popular on the regional college circuit and recorded a pair of albums. He eventually migrated to Nashville around 2011 and made a go of it as a solo artist, writing songs from a country platform that added strong pop and electronic elements into the mix. Working under his surname, Filmore released a three-song EP in 2015, landing a hit with the track “Headlights,” which appeared on his 2016 album Proof. With his profile raised, he returned in 2017 with the smooth country-pop track “You Know You Wanna,” followed in early 2018 by the breakout single “Slower,” a banjo-led summer anthem with plenty of mainstream pop appeal that quickly notched millions of streams. Filmore’s follow-up single, “Love That About You,” took a similar approach and also fared well commercially. Additional singles arrived over the next year including the streaming hit “Nothing’s Better,” which appeared on the 2020 full-length effort State I’m In.

Over the next year Filmore focused solely on singles, issuing an array on new songs like 2021’s “Used to Be,” “Who Cares,” and the Boat Boys collaboration “Long Time, No Sea.” His efforts carried into 2022 with solo cuts like “Somewhere with Beer” and “Mean Something” as well as the You Betcha Guy-assisted “Drunk I Am” and “USA” featuring Pitbull.

Filmore has signed with Pitbull’s Mr. 305 Records, and is working on his first album for the label. The first song from the project,  “If I Was You,” was recently released, to be followed by “South On Me.” His manager, Chris Perkins of Victory Entertainment, tells Country Aircheck, “Filmore is half Colombian, so spending time with Pitbull has allowed him to musically explore and feel more comfortable drawing from and expressing his Hispanic roots in this new album. Pitbull is incredibly involved and hands-on when it comes to song selection and promotion, and has been an experienced mentor to Filmore along the way.”