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Bear Bailey is a TikTok’er with an amazing voice who sings cover songs at a gas station in Louisiana, and Keith Urban is a fan.

By Karen Sharp Photo: Getty Images 33 year old Bear Bailey has always loved to sing but thought his dream was dead because of his age. Until TikTok and his local gas station brought his dream back to life. Bailey had been taking song requests a cashiers at his local gas station named Melissa McGee and her two daughters who also worked there. They recorded him so he decided to put the video up on his TikTok and in less than two weeks of posting it he has gained more than a million followers! “They found out I could sing, you know, just from living around here, and so on the days that I wo...

“It’s a very humbling feeling,” said Bailey, whose day job is working in construction as a welder. “I’ve sang my entire life, and, you know, I’m 33 and you just get to an age where you kind of give up on your dream because you’re like, ‘This is never going to happen.’” “And then this happens and it kind of reaffirms, like, hey, I don’t need to give up,” he continued. “I love what it’s showing my daughter who’s 5 years old, like, Dad didn’t quit.”  Melissa McGee, whom Bailey described as being like “the mama to the local neighborhood,” said she thinks o...