Julia Cole is ready for a ‘spicy’ summer after calling off her engagement

Julia Cole comes out of his ‘very bad breakup’ with Oklahoma City Dodgers pitcher Marshal “Kaz” Kasowski.

“It’s summer, you know, it’s time for a hot girl summer,” Cole, 30, exclusively shared. Us every week on Sunday, June 9 at CMA Fest in Nashville, noting that her upcoming single “Spicy” evokes the same feeling.

“It’s so funny because that song ‘Spicy’ is about feeling the confidence to finally get back on the field,” she said. “Find your motivation to believe in yourself (and) wear makeup with your daughters. »

Cole and Kasowski, 29, had known each other since they were children before the MLB star proposed in December 2022. They ultimately split last year.

“So last summer I went through a really bad breakup — and it was actually a canceled engagement,” Cole said. We. “And so, the Life after you EP came out in the last five months, and every month (is) a next step in the life cycle of that breakup came out. This is the complete arc.

Cole’s EP is “slowly turning into a full album” since his emotions didn’t stop after recording five songs.

“You’re still healing, I don’t know how long it’s going to take for me to be good again,” she explained on Sunday. “After (I released) songs like ‘Diamond Back’ and then ‘Your Boy,’ which is a letter to his mother – I mean, there’s like a whole (part of it) – we need ‘a little moment of, ‘Yeah, let’s drink tequila and get on a boat.’

Release Life after you and “Spicy” helped Cole move forward, as did the concerts. Fresh off appearing at this weekend’s CMA Fest, Cole is gearing up to launch her first headlining tour later this year.

“I’m so excited to go and meet in person everyone that I’ve been in contact with over the last few years at some of these openings or these festivals and just interacting on social media with the team Cole,” she exclaimed. We. “It’s going to be a teaser for my new song ‘Spicy,’ that one hasn’t been released yet, but we’re going to play it at all these shows.”

Cole has been singing since she was a teenager and eventually moved to Nashville to pursue a career in country music.

“Whenever I was like a high school kid, I started singing the national anthems for all my volleyball and basketball games, and then it expanded to everything in Houston,” Cole recalled. “I sang for the Astros, the Texans, NASA, the Houston Dynamos, the rodeo, everything locally.”

She continued, “I was already going to Nashville because I wanted to become a writer. I wanted to write books and they have a great creative writing program at Vanderbilt University. … Then I started singing (and) I thought, ‘Well, maybe I could write some songs.’ It’s like a little pivot. I picked up a guitar and came to this city where the best songwriters in the world live. I mean, it’s a mecca for songwriting.

With reporting by Jeremy Parsons