The first time The Citizen heard Zach John King sing, he was not standing on the Grand Ole Opry stage or in front of 70,000 people. He was a Whitewater High School student playing Tony in West Side Story. Opposite him as Maria was another Whitewater student named Kat. They were believable as the young couple falling in love onstage because, as it turns out, some of it was real. “We met in that play,” King said. “Funny enough, I mean that was like kind of our whole thing. We met in high school and spent a ton of time rehearsing for that play, and then eventually getting to know each other and dating.” More than a dozen years later, Kat is his wife. King is a country singer with more than 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, a Top 20 radio single, two summers touring with Morgan Wallen, a Grand Ole Opry appearance, and a nearly sold-out headline tour beginning this fall. And on August 28, the Fayetteville native will release his first full-length album, I’m What You Get. It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate title. Across 20 songs, King sings about the Georgia upbringing that shaped him, loving the country living, the woman who has been beside him since high school, the pull between life on the road and home, and the father whose influence King says he did not fully recognize in the album until after his death. There is plenty of Nashville expertise behind the project. King co-produced it with Ryan Wilson and has a team helping build a rapidly growing career. “The…
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