Matt Cooper has lived the " Highs & Lows " he sings about in his debut single, and he credits his strong faith for seeing him through the storms.

What Happened to Matt Cooper's Mom?

"Highs & Lows" was inspired in part by the death of Cooper's mother, Pam Cooper, who passed away in 2023 after a decade-long battle with cancer.

He was a freshman in high school when she was first diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. That turned into breast cancer, which eventually turned into the pancreatic cancer that took her life.

"Nobody ever really teaches you about grief, when you lose somebody that important to you," Cooper tells Taste of Country in a phone interview while on his radio tour for "Highs & Lows."

What Inspired Matt Cooper's "Highs & Lows"?

He ended up getting recommended to a therap

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