Natalie Goodman is a country/americana singer and songwriter out of Savannah, Georgia. She first began her singing journey in the middle school choir at the Savannah Country Day School, although she had major stage fright growing up. With a lot of encouragement from faculty and peers, she started singing for the jazz band in high school. While music was always an important outlet for Goodman, her main focus growing up was on soccer. In 2013, she received a soccer scholarship to the University of Georgia where she played varsity soccer for all four years. She was also in the u18 US National Team player pool and spent a majority of her childhood traveling for club soccer and the Olympic Development Team. Her college soccer experience was something she would not trade for the world, but it certainly did not go as planned. Riddled by injuries that kept her out of play for large chunks of several seasons, she turned to her outlet, music. In her junior year at UGA, she picked up a guitar and taught herself  to play so that she could start singing again. Goodman was given the privilege to sing the National Anthem before many UGA sporting events including some of her own soccer games before taking the field. Even on those occasions that she couldn’t take the field herself due to injury, she was always happy to contribute to her team’s pregame excitement by singing beforehand. During her time at UGA, she was also pre-med planning to become an ER doctor. Goodman is currently finishing her third year of medical school at Mercer University School of Medicine, still pursuing a career as an ER doctor. While balancing a full time music career and medical school clerkships is difficult, she could not be happier pursuing both dreams.

Her music career really started to gain momentum in 2017 after one of her instagram singing videos gained well over 150,000 views and attention from NBC’s The Voice. Still very young and naive in her singing career, she did not make it on to the live show but it was still an honor to make it as far as she did, and she learned a lot from the experience. This gave her the confidence to start pursuing music on a more serious level. The summer after Goodman graduated from college, Her mom signed her sister, Catherine Goodman (a very talented songwriter) and her up for a singer-songwriter bootcamp in Nashville, TN run by #1 hit song writer Kirsty Manna. She had never written a song before this and never considered herself much of a songwriter but submitting a song was required for the bootcamp so she gave it her best shot. There was a competition within the camp on whose song would be deemed “Best Song in Camp”, an award won by country star Kelsea Ballerini a few years prior. The four finalists chosen by industry executives were to perform their songs at the camp to be judged for first place, the prize being a single song publishing deal. Both Goodman and her sister were finalists. To Goodman’s complete astonishment, her song won. It was then that Goodman got her very first single song publishing deal in Nashville and got in contact with Kirsty’s husband, Bill Warner, a well-known Nashville producer, for some recording time. In 2019, he helped her record and release her very first EP. On the EP where several songs made it to FM radio and internet radio stations, over hundreds of thousands of streams and made it high onto top charts in the independent country music world.

In 2019 after the release of her first EP, Goodman was honored to be an official nominee for three categories, including “Rising Country Star of the Year”, at the prestigious Josie Music Awards, the largest multi-genre music awards platform for independent artists around the country. She went on to win “Rising Country Star of the Year”, which pushed her to keep going in her music career. In 2020, when COVID hit, her music career was put a bit on the back burner. She was actually an EMT during this time and worked in an Emergency Department during the heart of COVID. She was also preparing to start her first year of medical school. It was very tough mentally and she missed her  music, but live music was not really an option during that time (and understandably so). She did release a single co-written by her sister, Catherine Goodman, later that year called “Love You From a Distance” that earned some country FM radio air time. Once places started opening back up for live music, she started picking up gigs around Savannah, including gigs at many local restaurants and bars. In 2022, she was honored to accept a residency performance slot at Plant Riverside District, the premier entertainment venue in Savannah. Also in 2022, she was nominated for “Female Country Vocalist of the Year” for the Josie Music Awards, held in the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN. While she did not win the award, attending and being a nominee in the Grand Ole Opry was an absolute dream come true and incredible experience. Goodman has  since started working with a band and started playing  full band shows including some major Savannah headlining slots and has been branching out to touring in surrounding states. Goodman has also been working on writing some new songs, which she expects to release later this year and into next.