LUKE Combs is famous for his heart-wrenching country songs about love.
The woman who inspires his country ballads is Nicole Hocking, Combs’ wife and longtime lover. Here’s more about her…
Nicole Hocking has been married to award-winning country singer Luke Combs since 2020.
On January 20, 2022, the two announced on Instagram they are expecting their first child together.
In a series of photos displaying sonogram pictures of the baby, Nicole wrote: this may be the best year yet. baby BOY coming spring 2022!! we are so incredibly excited & thankful.”
Luke posted the same photos to his Instagram and said: “Here we go ya’ll! Lil dude Combs is coming this Spring! Couldn’t be more excited to start a family with this babe. It’s going to be a hell of a ride.”
Nicole is a recruiting coordinator and now works at BMI, Broadcast Music Inc.
She was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Florida.
Nicole has worked in the music industry for a fair few years and her passion for country music landed her in Nashville, Tennessee.
She is also the inspiration behind several of her husband’s songs and joins Combs as he tours the US.
Luke and Nicole first met at a music festival in Florida in 2016 and their meeting was like something out of a rom-com.
According to Country Fancast, they both caught eyes cross the crowd and Nicole asked Luke to join her and her friends.
They soon realised they were both from Nashville and things went from there.
Before they were even official, Luke wrote his hit song, “Crazy Beautiful,” about Nicole.
Luke proposed to Nicole in 2018 but made the news public during a romantic trip to Hawaii.
He announced the news on Instagram: “She said yes a while ago but this is a way better place to take pictures than the kitchen,” he wrote.
“Can’t wait to spend forever with you @nicohocking I Love You! #Mahalo.”
The pair later wed at their beach home in Southern Florida on August 1, 2020.
Luke later shared the disastrous story of his proposal. He decided to pop the question when the pair first moved into their new Florida home.
Combs knew his girlfriend loved cats, so decided to get them involved.
He said: “I had bought our cats new collars with our new address on them.”
“She loves her cat more than anything in the world. He always sits on her lap on the couch, so I had had the ring and I was gonna put it on the cat’s collar, was the idea.
“When we got to the new house and everything, he was gonna jump up on her lap and everything.”
Instead, Nicole’s cat peed all over the crate on the drive to the new house and Combs just had to improvise without the help of his feline friends!
