Adrien Nunez

Adrien Nunez

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About Adrien Nunez

Adrien Nunez (born May 14, 1999) is an American social media influencer, singer-songwriter, and former college basketball player. He was not highly regarded as a high school basketball player at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn but he excelled during a postgraduate year garnering many scholarship offers and earning accolades at St. Thomas More School in Oakdale, Connecticut. He was part of a highly rated entering class his 2018–19 freshman year for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team of the Big Ten Conference. Nunez was a student athlete with offers to play basketball at multiple Ivy League schools and he earned three consecutive Academic All-Big Ten recognitions. Michigan went to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament all three of the seasons he played which were not impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite his limited role on the basketball court, he became the team's most popular social media creator during the COVID-19 pandemic. The June 2021 Supreme Court National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston ruling prior to his senior season which made student athlete compensation permissible thrust Nunez into prominence with many high-profile corporate sponsors and partners making him one of the highest paid college athletes. After graduating, he began promoting other country music musicians through his social media platform to his millions of followers and then released his own music. Within three months of his new music release, Billboard announced he was signed to the Warner Music Nashville and Warner Records music labels. He subsequently continued to release music and appeared on music tours as well as at music festivals. He has supported tour-headliners Luke Bryan and Myles Smith.

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