The Roots of a Rising Star
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Author: Texas FFA News
Before the packed arenas and chart-topping hits, Texas country music artist Hudson Westbrook was an FFA member from Stephenville, Texas, building the work ethic and confidence that now fuel his career.
“FFA taught me so many life skills,” said Westbrook. “It also taught me how to be a good person. Because of the program I am the person I am today.”
As his career gains momentum across the music scene, Westbrook continues to credit those his blue and gold roots for teaching him how to work hard, serve his community, and step on stage with confidence.
“I did public speaking in FFA which taught me how to be in front of crowds,” he said. “I also learned how to interact with people and be confident in the product you are selling. In FFA it was my pigs, in my career now it is my songs.”
His career has been driven by ambition, grit, and determination. When asked what advice he would give a current FFA member balancing school, projects, and big dreams, he offered a simple but powerful message.
“Never sacrifice your dreams and never let the people around you work harder than you do.”
Westbrook also let us in on the one Texas FFA Convention memory he will never forget. One that might have quietly set the stage for the career he’s living now.
“Watching William Clark Green at the Texas FFA Convention,” he said. “It was my first country concert ever.”
Now, Westbrook has graced that same stage himself. In 2024, he was featured as a performer for the Texas FFA Convention Kick-off Concert in Houston, creating a true full-circle moment.
With his career now accelerating, Westbrook hasn’t forgotten the people or places that shaped him. In fact, he’s made it a priority to give back to the same community that poured into him as a young FFA member.
He returned to Stephenville, Texas, on Saturday, November 1, to honor those roots, performing a benefit concert at Tarleton State University’s EECU Event Center and helping raise $100,000 to rebuild the very livestock facilities where his FFA journey began.
“These funds are going to rebuild the same livestock barn I grew up showing my pigs in,” Westbrook said in a statement. “To be able to give back to the community in this way and to have so many people I’ve known all my life show up means everything to me and my crew.”
Standing in the same community that shaped him, Westbrook says his success feels even more meaningful when he can pour it back into others.
“I believe that your upbringing is very important in shaping the person you become as an adult. have been so lucky to have the success I have had and I want to give some of it back to help continue to mold the next generation of leaders.”
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