Meet your new favorite country-pop crossover act: MTV Artist To Watch Hunter Hayes.
No matter what your taste in music, a young prodigy like Hunter Hayes is hard to pass up. The 21-year-old up-and-coming country-pop superstar is on the Taylor Swift fast track to crossover success (remember when Taylor was just "country"?): Not only has Hunter spent much of the past year opening for Carrie Underwood on her "Blown Away" tour, but he's also opened for Ms. Swift AND Rascal Flatts, and was nominated for THREE 2013 Grammy awards, including Best New Artist. Are we impressed yet?
Learn more about Hunter Hayes after the jump.









