A singer who started out as an engineer is on the way to Kennewick.
Zach Top is a native of Sunnyside, Washington, and became interested in performing when he and his siblings formed a bluegrass band called Top String. He relocated to Colorado and enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder to study mechanical engineering. He discovered the field did not hold his interest, and left after a year, working and saving money to fund his move to Nashville. He began a solo recording career in 2019, releasing a series of bluegrass singles, then dropped “Zach Top,” his debut EP, in 2022.
He made the switch to country music and a new, independent label, Leo33, announced they had signed him as their flagship artist in September 2023. In January 2024, his debut single “Sounds Like the Radio,” was released to country radio. Fifty-five stations added the song to their programming, and it climbed into the Billboard Country Airplay Chart’s Top 20.
Wyatt McCubbin and Carson Chamberlain co-wrote the song with Top, who found inspiration in the country music of the 1990s, and artists like Randy Travis and George Strait. The song was the lead single on “Cold Beer & Country Music,” Top’s debut album, which dropped in April 2024. His second album, “Ain’t in It for My Health,” came out in 2025.
Top will be at the Toyota Center in Kennewick on November 22 and 23. Performances like this can benefit from advertising created by organizers with poster printing.
