“Honestly, anything he’s ever done… He’s such a blessed and gifted kid,” Sia Gould told Jennifer Vickery Smith on the Got It From My Momma Podcast.

Tucker Wetmore and his Mom Sia Gould; Photo Courtesy of Tucker Wetmore/Instagram

From a sold-out headlining tour to a nomination at the ACM Awards, Tucker Wetmore has experienced a massive year in country music. Fans may think they know his story, but only one person can tell it best.

Sia Gould, mother of country singer Tucker Wetmore, sat down with Jennifer Vickery Smith, host of the Got It From My Momma Podcast, to discuss the early days before her son’s rapid rise to fame. Gould gave fans of the Washington-born singer heartfelt insights into what it felt like watching her son grow so fast, not only in the music industry, but also personally.

Wetmore’s unique upbringing included living in a house with two biological sisters and two-step sisters. He is no stranger to feminine energy, and this female perspective is heard in many of his songs. While managing a household of five children and a stressful job in law enforcement, Gould still found time to further Wetmore’s passion for music. Since the age of two, she knew he always had it in him.

“I can say going back to probably two-ish years old, I just always knew he was built for something big,” she explained on the Got It From My Momma Podcast.

Wetmore expressed his love for the stage from a young age. His mother shared stories of him harmonizing with his uncle and dancing at his school’s show and tell day. “I remember at one point at two, his uncle was at our house and Theory Of A Deadman was playing, and that was his dad listened to some heavy metal, and he had a mixed bag of music he grew up with, but they knew this song, I can’t think of the name of the song right now, but his uncle was singing it and Tucker started singing it, and they harmonized on one of the parts, and I was like, you know at two years old, how does that even happen? And his uncle is a really good singer. And then just that kind of caught my attention.”

Gould continued, “And when I would watch him listen to music, I can really explain it back then it felt like he listened to music kind of inside out. So if I turned the treble down on a song or the bass down a song, it would just mess with his brain. He didn’t like it would drive him crazy. And so when people, especially children, when they listen to songs, usually they pick up on the beat, or they pick up on the lyrics of it, they can recite it, but when he listened to music or when he heard it, you could tell it pumped through his veins. And so he always had that in him, but he’s always been a performer.”

Tucker Wetmore and his Mom Sia Gould; Photo Courtesy of Tucker Wetmore’s Mom/Instagram

However, he didn’t receive his first piano until the age of 11. He first practiced on a 32 key Casio keyboard and was eventually gifted a larger piano by a librarian at his school, who heard he had a knack for the instrument. The first time Sia heard her son play on the piano and sing was “Hey Jude” by The Beatles while he was alone in his bedroom.

“He’s playing that song, and he’s singing the song and playing the piano. And I slowly creaked the door open and his back’s to me, his piece facing the wall away from me, and he doesn’t know I’m there. And I’m just listening to him in complete disbelief like, ‘who are you? Where’s my son?’ because I didn’t have any clue. He even knew how to play a song, much less sing to the song, and it just blew my mind,” Gould admitted.

A piano performance is now incorporated into each show, going back to his singer-songwriter roots. His devotion to the piano and songwriting was lost in the midst of his early twenties, but he rediscovered the craft when he needed it most. After picking the hobby back up, Wetmore decided it was time to move to Nashville.

Nashville soon became a place where he found family and band members that still play with him to this day. Sia Gould reflected on their first visit to the city, with one of their first stops being the Grand Ole Opry.

“We checked into the hotel [in Nashville when we first visited], and instantly went over to the Opry. I felt like, you need to see this first. This is the most important part of Nashville, in my opinion,” Gould added. “And so we went there, we took pictures in front of it, and he’s looking up at it, and I still have the pictures, but he turns around, he’s like, ‘I’m going to play here one day.’ And I said, ‘I know you are.’”

Almost four years to the day, that statement came true.

Wetmore’s journey in the country music world has only just begun. His immense popularity came from his 2024 hit single, “Wine Into Whiskey,” and his 2025 debut album, What Not To. The singer even landed a track on Twisters: The Album with help from Connor Smith. Wetmore’s well-deserved success derives from his fearless personality and a mother who believed in him all along.

“Honestly, anything he’s ever done, it’s been weird. He’s such a blessed and gifted kid when it comes to athletics and music and all that. But even watching a football playoff, like a state championship, track, whatever, any of those, I never went into those nervous. I always knew he was going to take care of it or him and his teammates were going to take care of it. He would blind faith in him. I don’t even know how to explain it,” Gould said in her endless belief in Tucker Wetmore’s dreams.